Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] libfmevent problem with installing oi_147

2010-12-21 Thread Andrew Myers
I tried Albert's suggestion but got a message saying /usr/sbin/svcs: No such file or directory I think I might have to give up on this machine (the dell e6400) and just use the thinkpad instead? I'd love to get to the bottom of it but I think I'm a bit out of my depth... I also tried

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss libfmevent problem with installing

2010-12-21 Thread Gary Gendel
On 12/21/10 7:00 AM, openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org wrote: Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:58:13 +1100 From: Andrew Myersam2...@gmail.com To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] libfmevent problem with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Poor text antialiasing behaviour in Firefox

2010-12-21 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
I think you can install the missing fonts from: http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ You may need cabextract to get files. Cabextract is available from the following URL (no need to compile it; there is a Solaris binary there): http://www.cabextract.org.uk/ -- Apostolos

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] libfmevent problem with installing oi_147

2010-12-21 Thread Andrew Myers
Same message unfortunately. It's also saying (after logging in to maintenance mode): -bash: /usr/sbin/quota: No such file or directory -bash: /bin/mail: No such file or directory -bash: /usr/bin/hostname: No such file or directory Sent from my iPod. On 21/12/2010, at 11:16 PM, Volker A.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] libfmevent problem with installing oi_147

2010-12-21 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Andrew Myers writes: Same message unfortunately. It's also saying (after logging in to maintenance mode): -bash: /usr/sbin/quota: No such file or directory -bash: /bin/mail: No such file or directory -bash: /usr/bin/hostname: No such file or directory Not good. Looks like your root

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] should OI be listed at opensolaris.org site

2010-12-21 Thread Hillel Lubman
But openindiana is planning to switch from being OpenSolaris based to being illumos based. So formally speaking it would not be an OpenSolaris distribution. Regards, Hillel. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Edward Martinez mindbende...@live.comwrote: Hi, I'm thinking if it's a good idea to

[OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Harry Putnam
A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard choice. I've been running osol on this hardware: cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3400+ motherboard: AOpen AK86-L (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM hard drives: 2 IDE 500GB, 2 sata 500GB, 2 sata 750GB The motherboard

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Kevin J. Woolley
On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 10:00, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com said: A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard choice. I've been running osol on this hardware: cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3400+ motherboard: AOpen AK86-L (5 PCI, 1 AGP,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Edward Martinez
On 12/21/10 10:14, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 10:00, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com said: A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard choice. I've been running osol on this hardware: cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3400+

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] should OI be listed at opensolaris.org site

2010-12-21 Thread Jerry Kemp
How about genunix? http://www.genunix.org/ Jerry On 12/21/10 03:46, Edward Martinez wrote: Hi, I'm thinking if it's a good idea to have OI listed as one of Community Distributions along with others already listed on opensolaris.org site, so newcomers that visits that site will know

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Edward Martinez
On 12/21/10 10:42, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 02:34, Edward Martinezmindbende...@live.com said: Hi, I suggest staying away from AMD Athlon 2 x2 series, because I have a system using the 240 series, Openindiana, solaris 10,11 ex, opensolaris,etc do

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:42:44AM -0800, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: Do you have a recommendation for a socket AM3 CPU that will run Solaris well? This is what I bought in March to run Opensolaris. It runs Openindiana flawlessly. All the devices are supported. o Motherboard: ASUS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana 134+ Stable X86, rev. 11

2010-12-21 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
Hello, I have installed this release on a 32-bit system and the iprb fails to attach and so the system has no Internet connection. Unfortunately I cannot provide any other info since I destroyed the BE. Also, after upgrading a 64-bit system the Device Driver Tool indicates reports that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Lou Picciano
Harry, As the discussion has apparently opened up to Intel chips, let me weigh in. I claim no comprehensive knowledge of the state of the art, but did quite a bit of research at the point of making some purchase decisions, now 2+ yrs ago. I've been running - with great success, Oi on a

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Mouse pointers - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

2010-12-21 Thread Dmitry G. Kozhinov
Hi all, In OpenSolaris 2009.06 there were nice mouse pointers. Eventually they gone bad in 2010.03 and 11 Express (cannot understand why). Obviously to fix these, in OpenIndiana build 148 we see the third breed of them (taken from Linux?). I don't like these - the arrow has too sharp tips, and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:42:44AM -0800, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: Do you have a recommendation for a socket AM3 CPU that will run Solaris well? This is what I bought in March to run Opensolaris. It runs Openindiana flawlessly. All the devices are

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Kevin J. Woolley k...@javabunny.net writes: On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 10:00, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com said: A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard choice. I've been running osol on this hardware: cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
Any ATX type motherboard will fit in an ATX case - you'll just not use the entire motherboard tray and all standoffs. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 19:58, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:42:44AM -0800, Kevin J. Woolley wrote:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 07:58:32PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:42:44AM -0800, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: Do you have a recommendation for a socket AM3 CPU that will run Solaris well? This is what I bought in March to

[OpenIndiana-discuss] new screenshots on the OI web site

2010-12-21 Thread Chris Mosetick
Hi all, Just wanted to let everyone know I put up some new screenshots of OpenIndiana b148 on the main website: http://openindiana.org/screenshots/ If anyone has a wikipedia account, it would be great if someone could put a couple new ones on our en.wikipedia.org entry. Thank you to who ever