Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] R and R commander

2012-11-28 Thread Bryan Iotti
Folks, there is a copy of R 2.13.1 32-bit in the OpenCSW repo that works fine on OI 151a7. in case you're interested. Bryan On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Daniel Kjar wrote: > Let me know if it works... > > > On 11/28/12 01:31 PM, Richard PALO wrote: > >> Le 28/11/12 16:51, Daniel Kjar a éc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Scientific Software for OpenIndiana

2012-11-23 Thread Bryan Iotti
Excellent idea! Myself, I use the R statistics software, ImageJ and MIPAV, but I'd really like the ease of use of searching for an IPKG package and downloading it... Nowadays I find I mainly look for java apps for the ease of portability. R is available, although old, from CSW. Bryan On Fri

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SFE multimedia players and codecs

2012-11-08 Thread Bryan Iotti
+1 on mplayer. VLC used to work, now MPlayer does a great job on all my multimedia formats. Bryan On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: > On 2012-11-04 09:27, Milan Jurik wrote: > >> it would be good to say which packages you installed. >> > > I'll try to make a list when I'm next

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-08 Thread Bryan Iotti
OI is my main desktop. I have been trying to ignore all the shortcomings of GNOME 2 because I find that ZFS, zones and DTrace are far more important. I'd really like some of these bugs to be patched. I have a Linux laptop running Fedora and XFCE as a WM, but it's a question of performance there. La

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Very slow write performance on a 3 disk raidz1-0 zpool

2012-08-24 Thread Bryan Iotti
:31 PM, "Julius Roberts" wrote: > On 24 August 2012 18:02, Bryan Iotti wrote: > > Are these Advanced Format Drives (4k sectors) already? > > I don't know? > > > My own WD Caviar Green 2TB sucked bad before I recreated a pool on it > with > > the modifi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Very slow write performance on a 3 disk raidz1-0 zpool

2012-08-24 Thread Bryan Iotti
Are these Advanced Format Drives (4k sectors) already? My own WD Caviar Green 2TB sucked bad before I recreated a pool on it with the modified zpool-12 command. You could run: # zdb | grep ashift And see what value you get. If you have 9, the pool is structured for 512 byte sectors and a 4k dri

[OpenIndiana-discuss] PCI/PCI-Ex SATA controller

2012-08-11 Thread Bryan Iotti
Hello all, I'm looking for a SATA controller card for my HP xw8200, since the internal SATA ports don't pass SMART with the pci-ide driver... Now, at the present moment I have 2x 2TB drives, in the future I'd like to add more, even externally if possible. I will always use ZFS and not HW RAID. W

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on SPARC

2012-07-30 Thread Bryan Iotti
Really amazing work there. Keep it up! Bryan On Jul 30, 2012 8:14 AM, "Martin Bochnig" wrote: > Hi, > > > yes, I resumed work a few weeks ago. > X11: problem solved(!) > > And weather SPARC is dead or not, I still have 18 SPARC boxes here in my > room. > Fully equipped with all existing frame

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS & SMART error

2012-07-05 Thread Bryan Iotti
Personally, I would use smartctl. Do a "which smartctl" to see if you have it installed, otherwise it's in the OI SFE package smartmontools. First get a usage summary using "smartctl -h", then you might want to scan for available devices via "smartctl --scan". Then pick one and query its info by

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hard Drive Temp

2012-05-22 Thread Bryan Iotti
Also check which driver your controllers are using. SMART passthrough does not work with the pci-ide driver. Bryan On May 22, 2012 2:33 PM, "Jim Klimov" wrote: > 2012-05-22 15:30, an...@ak47.co.za, wrote: > > The problem probably lies with, "ATA command >> routine ata_command_interface() NOT IM

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cron best practice

2012-05-14 Thread Bryan Iotti
Very good question, curious myself Could it be run as user "nobody"? Bryan On May 14, 2012 9:42 PM, "Mark Creamer" wrote: > I'm looking for a bit of best practice advice. On Windows systems I > usually create a job runner account with the correct permissions to > run batch scripts when they nee

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] moving existing rpool onto larger disks, in-place: zpool/zfs ashift/blocksize musings

2012-05-14 Thread Bryan Iotti
To obtain the ashift value for a pool, try # zdb | grep ashift I've had a terrible experience with my 2TB WD Caviar Green, only recently improved by separating it from the mirror I had and using it as a long term backup unit after formatting with a modified version of zpool, called zpool-12, whi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenOffice come back with 3.4 release

2012-05-09 Thread Bryan Iotti
Same question I had today... good thing I found a link to OOo 3.3 via the internet archive. Bryqn On May 9, 2012 10:13 PM, "cpforum" wrote: > Hi, > > > > After a long time, Apache Software Fondation published yesterday > OpenOffice 3.4. > > Solaris/OpenIndiana binaries are not available yet ! (s

[OpenIndiana-discuss] PCIEX-8000-KP was Re: Nvidia errors on 151a4

2012-05-09 Thread Bryan Iotti
's kicking the can this time? Bryan On May 9, 2012 9:32 AM, "Bryan Iotti" wrote: > After a lot of time spent troubleshooting, only to see the crashes become > more frequent, I ended up having to reinstall... This time I'm starting > from the 151a3 disk, not the 148 one

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia errors on 151a4

2012-05-09 Thread Bryan Iotti
After a lot of time spent troubleshooting, only to see the crashes become more frequent, I ended up having to reinstall... This time I'm starting from the 151a3 disk, not the 148 one, and I'll avoid setting esoteric paths and the like (after all, I kind of know where the software I need is and I ca

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia errors on 151a4

2012-05-08 Thread Bryan Iotti
In the end that's what I ended up doing. I just found it funny that Package Manager depended on Firefox. :) Bryan On May 8, 2012 10:36 AM, "Jonathan Adams" wrote: > the Package from Mozilla installs in /usr/sfw/lib and is called > SFWfirefox ... it can be installed at the same time as the shipp

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia errors on 151a4

2012-05-07 Thread Bryan Iotti
Actually in my case it is a complete system freeze. No input, frozen video, no ssh, router lights signal no activity. Today I put in a new Asus GTX 550 Ti and the notices have gone away. No crashes either so far, except for one when I tried to run glxgears... will investigate tomorrow. Thank you

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia errors on 151a4

2012-05-06 Thread Bryan Iotti
Hi all, Yesterday I upgraded to 151a4 on my HP xw8200. The machine experienced four freezes that could only be recovered by powering it off and on again. Now, fmadm faulty lists nothing. fmdump lists nothing. fmdump -e mentions issues with ereport.io.pci.fabric and ereport.io.pciex.fabric. These

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Compiling Mosh for OI 151

2012-04-30 Thread Bryan Iotti
I'm no professional when it comes to compiling, but I normally set PKG_CONFIG_PATH by hand with "export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig" (do set your proper paths), as well as LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/lib. I have also set the system library paths with crl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newbie Questions - Installing various software

2012-04-08 Thread Bryan Iotti
I would be interested in learning how to package correctly too. Would save a lot of time and trouble if I didn't have to compile stuff like the R statistical program. If I recall correctly, you need a particular setup (with SunStudio?) to prepare packages for the IPS repo. Bryan On Apr 8, 2012 2: