Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ask for a small contribution related Pulseaudio,

2024-02-10 Thread Gary Mills
s/pci@0,0/pci1022,1454@8,1/pci1043,86c7@0,3:sound,dsp1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 68 Sep 20 2017 audiohd:1mixer -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1022,1454@8,1/pci1043,86c7@0,3:sound,mixer1 -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replace xscreensaver with mate-screensaver

2024-01-22 Thread Gary Mills
eport. I've just filed Bug #16205 for the mate-screensaver time issue. I'm not going to work on it, because I'm old and retired. Perhaps a younger person could fix the bug. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Mani

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replace xscreensaver with mate-screensaver

2024-01-22 Thread Gary Mills
, if that is posible. I don't know if there is an official spelling in Canada, or in anyplace for that matter. I certainly don't want to impose my personal views on other people. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- __

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Replace xscreensaver with mate-screensaver

2024-01-21 Thread Gary Mills
short, mate-screensaver is a good basic screensaver. People who want to use xscreensaver will have to install it themselves, if the change suggested in the PR takes place. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DNS server and domain from DHCP?

2023-12-20 Thread Gary Mills
. If you are unable to do that, the whole thing becomes more complicated. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-10 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 10:31:09AM -0500, Gary Mills wrote: > Is anybody running OI on a computer that does not have a console? > I have a system that I installed with the GUI image, and with an > HDMI console and USB keyboard and mouse. Now I'd like to use this > system without all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-09 Thread Gary Mills
like VGA video to the OS, but converts VGA text to a serial stream that goes to a dedicated ethernet port. They work nicely for me with OI and IPMI. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-09 Thread Gary Mills
itching the KVM to a different system. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-08 Thread Gary Mills
hanks for the page. I'll make sure I get one or two of those plugs. I expect I'll need them. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org htt

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-08 Thread Gary Mills
are installed, with a dedicated ethernet port. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-08 Thread Gary Mills
I attach a console later, if I happen to need it? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on a fanless mini-PC

2023-04-20 Thread Gary Mills
. That's what the system is running now. I used the gui version mainly because I only know how to use the Network GUI to configure the network. I won't need a console once the configuration is complete. I certainly will never need the web browser. -- -Gary Mills--refurb

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] libpulsecore error

2023-03-09 Thread Gary Mills
18:30 gschemas.compiled-old According to the date, it came from an old BE, and was not rebuilt or installed in two updates. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] My Firefox tab has crashed

2023-02-18 Thread Gary Mills
On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 07:07:38PM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: > Whenever I tell Firefox to show me www.royalbank.com, and click on the > Sign In box, it tells me that my tab just crashed. This behavior just > started happening today. It happens before I get an opportunity to > authenti

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] My Firefox tab has crashed

2023-02-18 Thread Gary Mills
something different between my systems and yours that is causing the tab crash. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] My Firefox tab has crashed

2023-02-18 Thread Gary Mills
new and old BEs are on different systems, with quite different browser profiles. It's unlikely that the profile is the cause. I'll try to use "truss -f" to see what happens just before the tab crash. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winn

[OpenIndiana-discuss] My Firefox tab has crashed

2023-02-17 Thread Gary Mills
a traceback of that tab crash or to send one to a developer? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] image-update fails with python mediator errors

2022-07-05 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 01:10:09PM -0500, Gary Mills wrote: > > What's the exact command? I recall I had this problem after an > update. The boot stopped in single-user mode. I logged in and > deleted the bad service. Then I shut down the system and rebooted > it. I got a norm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] image-update fails with python mediator errors

2022-07-05 Thread Gary Mills
logged in and deleted the bad service. Then I shut down the system and rebooted it. I got a normal boot. This is a well-known problem with OI. The command probably came from a web page, but I can no longer find it. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] problem replacing a disk by a bigger one

2022-06-27 Thread Gary Mills
ing to turn off the notebook What does "zpool status" show? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] problem replacing a disk by a bigger one

2022-06-26 Thread Gary Mills
h both disks permanently installed on a desktop. I don't know if it even works with USB disks. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https:/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dell 15810 bricked after latest update

2022-06-16 Thread Gary Mills
Many systems no longer support BIOS downgrades. > no luck cannot go past the > dell screen no matter which f key I push, Rescatux is useless. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-di

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] services dependency cycle

2022-05-05 Thread Gary Mills
m with the service metainit present. It think > was disabled on my broken setup btw. I have one: $ svcs -a | grep meta disabled Apr_23 svc:/system/metainit:default I'm running a BE dated 2021-08-30 . The only dependency seems to be svc:/system/identity:node . -- -Gary Mill

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster becomes unreachable over network after a certain length of uptime

2022-04-13 Thread Gary Mills
ns, laptop users can leverage nwam network > configuations." That really means: "in an envionment where the network configuration changes frequently". > So that doc positions NWAM as a solution for 'laptop users'. > Opinions may differ ... NWAM actually work

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster becomes unreachable over network after a certain length of uptime

2022-04-13 Thread Gary Mills
v4 routing enabled enabled IPv6 routing disabled disabled IPv4 forwarding disabled disabled IPv6 forwarding disabled disabled ... -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Heads up: SSH has been updated to 8.9p1

2022-04-10 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 09:15:00PM +0200, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: > Am 10.04.22 um 20:53 schrieb Gary Mills: > > Isn't there something in the P5M file that says that the > > svc:/network/ssh:default service needs to be restarted after the > > update? > > > No, not y

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Heads up: SSH has been updated to 8.9p1

2022-04-10 Thread Gary Mills
h:default service needs to be restarted after the update? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backup for ZFS filesystems

2022-03-31 Thread Gary Mills
to be zrepl packages are not packages at all. For example, the solaris and illumos downloads are just single binaries that run on those platforms. They are components of packages, not complete packages. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winni

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backup for ZFS filesystems

2022-03-30 Thread Gary Mills
entire filesystem from a replica. The system I used formerly, zetaback, only stored "zfs send" streams on the backup device. That's something that's failure-prone, according to all the ZFS documents I've read. The only disadvantage of zrepl that I've encountered so far is that it does not

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backup for ZFS filesystems

2022-03-26 Thread Gary Mills
t easy to install. I had been using zetaback, from OmniTI. It also has an OI package. I may continue to use that product. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing l

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Backup for ZFS filesystems

2022-03-12 Thread Gary Mills
to ZFS filesystems. What are you using to backup ZFS files? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for OI hipster ZFS root mirror?

2021-08-14 Thread Gary Mills
I? It might already be ported to OI but just not on the USB image. I don't know. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] More 2021.04.30 strangeness

2021-06-21 Thread Gary Mills
.. | grep NEEDED works better than ldd. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] automount does not work!

2021-06-20 Thread Gary Mills
a storage device. I don't know the plumbing in detail, but I assume that without the process, hald will not be aware of changes to USB devices. That is the problem I'm seeing. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] automount does not work!

2021-06-20 Thread Gary Mills
current version of OI. > It should not interfere with the mounting of USB storage > devices. Yes, I agree. Nevertheless, something also prevents automounting of USB sticks. I assume there's something in common behind the two symptoms. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winn

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] automount does not work!

2021-06-19 Thread Gary Mills
e The error seems to be in the man page. The method script svc-hal does not use any SMF properties. It only runs: /usr/lib/hal/hald --daemon=yes About all you can do to run the daemon with different options is to disable the service and then run it manually. -- -Gary Mills-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] automount does not work!

2021-06-19 Thread Gary Mills
o recover a USB keyboard if you happen to change it. Of course, doing that is just about as drastic as rebooting. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] automount does not work!

2021-06-18 Thread Gary Mills
(supplied by illumos) and X11 (supplied by OI). -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OS update works nicely

2021-05-15 Thread Gary Mills
driver. I'm impressed, and also pleased. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

2021-04-22 Thread Gary Mills
data pool. This configuration does work. Other people use different configurations that also works. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

2021-04-21 Thread Gary Mills
be booted either way. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] timezone

2021-03-30 Thread Gary Mills
rtc for details. You can also look at the file /etc/rtc_config for current time zone settings. If you change the time zone with rtc, you should reboot immediately. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount usb devices?

2021-03-29 Thread Gary Mills
Microsoft patents and licence costs, I would suspect. You have to reformat those USB devices. The FAT filesystem is the only portable filesystem between OI and Windows. You can reformat them on Windows or OI. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitob

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount usb devices?

2021-03-29 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 04:24:58PM -0500, Gary Mills wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 08:38:33PM -0700, irixuzer wrote: > > I'm new to the list. Ive been trying to mount usb devices. After the first > > time, which was successful, I've been getting the following: > > If y

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount usb devices?

2021-03-28 Thread Gary Mills
n /dev/dsk/c7t0d0p0:1 read/write/nosetuid/nodevices/hidden/nofoldcase/clamptime/noatime/timezone=21600/dev=3701190 on Sun Mar 28 21:20:50 2021 USB devices are automatically mounted under /media . You can access them there. To unmount them, I use the right-click menu of the icon on the deskto

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount usb devices?

2021-03-28 Thread Gary Mills
ically. You don't have to do anything. The FMRI of that service is svc:/system/dbus:default . -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox68esr for testing

2021-03-17 Thread Gary Mills
> > whithout this, FF will raise a assertion in JS code. It sounds as if we need the illumos developers to make the appropriate change to the illumos kernel or to the linker so that this setting will not be necessary. An illumos bug report would be a good starting point. -- -Gary M

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

2021-03-03 Thread Gary Mills
On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 07:57:39AM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: > > I looked around for my notes on the first install of OI on my Z400, > but couldn't find anything. Maybe it was that easy that I didn't > bother making notes. I do recall that only needed to follow the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] More information on my HP Z400

2021-03-03 Thread Gary Mills
long ago is this line: ahci "pci8086,2822.103c.1309.0" It probably can be less specific. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

2021-03-03 Thread Gary Mills
irst part of the instructions. The main thing is the add_drv and rebuilding the boot archive. There was only one BE, of course. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-dis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

2021-03-02 Thread Gary Mills
ully-qualified path of prtconf, like this: /usr/sbin/prtconf -v | less I know that it's complicated, but it's the only way to accomodate a broken disk controller. Also, you only have to do this once. Most systems do not have this problem. -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

2021-03-02 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 09:17:31AM -0500, John D Groenveld wrote: > In message <20210302014545.ga6...@imap.fastmail.com>, Gary Mills writes: > >These are Solaris partions, now called slices. They are within a > >single FDISK partition. You can use the partition command wi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

2021-03-02 Thread Gary Mills
tall-solaris-on-a-fake-raid-a-k-a-ahciraid-sata-sas-controller/635830#635830 -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mail

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

2021-03-01 Thread Gary Mills
mand within format to see the slices. You can use the fdisk command within format to see the FDISK partitions. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "format -e" segmentation fault attempting to label a 5 TB disk in Hipster 2017.10

2021-02-22 Thread Gary Mills
ller/635830#635830 -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DNS problem

2021-02-20 Thread Gary Mills
esses. On OI, some ethernet devices do not have a driver. That may be your problem with the Linksys N600. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] catching hell getting booted

2021-02-04 Thread Gary Mills
s with their BIOS. Are you saving your changes after you make them? Does the BIOS show the new boot order after the boot fails? Some systems will not boot from USB, but in that case they will still boot from a CD reader. I don't think that's your problem. -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana as a server.

2021-01-31 Thread Gary Mills
t; a few things to be desired. We also should welcome new people, not drive them away. People learn by making mistakes. That's quite normal and usual. In fact, we need new people. If somebody asks a question, refer them to a place where they can find the answer. Please be tolerant.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

2021-01-30 Thread Gary Mills
ing DRM driver and thats the > reason why you need to use vesa in first place…. Also correct. I believe that Aurélien is working on the DRM driver. I will be happier when that is ported and working. -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

2021-01-30 Thread Gary Mills
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 08:19:16AM +0200, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: > > > On 30. Jan 2021, at 03:57, Gary Mills wrote: > > > > The loader works in UEFI mode, but OI does not. Usually you are > > offered a choice at boot time. Chose BIOS mode. >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

2021-01-29 Thread Gary Mills
ks in UEFI mode, but OI does not. Usually you are offered a choice at boot time. Chose BIOS mode. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What's HASWELL support like on OI?

2021-01-28 Thread Gary Mills
to do the initial install from the live USB image, and do updates afterwards with the pkg command. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] When will AMD XIII CPUs be supported

2021-01-23 Thread Gary Mills
On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 04:44:21PM +, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 2:22 AM Gary Mills wrote: > > > That's peculiar: there are two drivers attached to the same hardware > > device. I've never seen that before. > > That's normal. pci1462,7309

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] When will AMD XIII CPUs be supported

2021-01-22 Thread Gary Mills
e never seen that before. The first is an ethernet driver. The second is the SATA controller driver. It has one disk. Can you disable the ethernet in the BIOS? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS Error

2021-01-22 Thread Gary Mills
On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 08:29:21AM +0700, Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss wrote: > Hi. Try importing your pool on FreeBSD or Linux. The usual way is to boot the install medium on your OI system, and then import the pool there. -- -Gary Mills--ref

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] When will AMD XIII CPUs be supported

2021-01-22 Thread Gary Mills
1022,1453@1,3/pci1b21,1062@0,1/disk@1,0 2. c5t2d0 /pci@0,0/pci1022,1453@1,3/pci1b21,1062@0,1/disk@2,0 3. c5t3d0 /pci@0,0/pci1022,1453@1,3/pci1b21,1062@0,1/disk@3,0 Specify disk (enter its number): ^D -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] When will AMD XIII CPUs be supported

2021-01-21 Thread Gary Mills
t perhaps not with the loader. Selecting AHCI mode in the BIOS for the disk controller may fix the problem. I notice when I run: $ prtconf -D on my system, it shows ahci as the disk controller driver. -- -Gary Mills--refur

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] When will AMD XIII CPUs be supported

2021-01-21 Thread Gary Mills
ter all, you only install once. > It either bootloops just after > zfs0 /pseudo/zfs@0 > > or it dumps core at the first language choice screen. > Any thoughts/suggestions? That certainly could be a problem. Did you capture the core file or record the traceback? --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace failed rpool mirror disk?

2021-01-17 Thread Gary Mills
t > all is ok with the boot loader. It is even possible that zfs arranged to > install the boot loader on the disk automatically. To be sure all is okay, try booting from one disk and then the other. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace failed rpool mirror disk?

2021-01-17 Thread Gary Mills
nd if you are using the whole disk. You can tell that from `zpool status'. If you are using slices, you will need to use format to make it the same as the other disk. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitob

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Microphone and pulseaudio

2021-01-12 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 09:34:47AM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: > The volume on illumos-based systems is always quite low. Here's the bug report: https://www.illumos.org/issues/13098 -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Can

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Microphone and pulseaudio

2021-01-12 Thread Gary Mills
>>/dev/audio Pulseaudio is not involved here, since you are accessing raw devices. You could use the audioplay command to replace the second command. I'd expect the same result, but it's worth trying. The volume on illumos-based systems is always quite low. -- -Gary Mills--re

[OpenIndiana-discuss] New SPARC ISO for testing

2021-01-07 Thread Gary Mills
. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Determine path to usb stick frm `rmformt -l' output

2020-12-18 Thread Gary Mills
ount | grep media # dd if=Downloads/OI-hipster-gui-20201031.usb of=/dev/dsk/c7t0d0p0 bs=4194304 489+1 records in 489+1 records out 2052153856 bytes transferred in 404.551998 secs (4.84MB/sec) # mount | grep media /* Remove the USB stick */ -- -Gary Mills-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI new user questions - 2

2020-12-14 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 04:20:49PM +, Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss wrote: > > @Gary Mills, > the "hal service" has started and runs fine. I get the same output as you. Okay, hal is running. That is good to know. > However, there are several posts from Linux

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI new user questions - 2

2020-12-13 Thread Gary Mills
in your case. Here's how it looks to me: jack@openindiana:/jack$ svcs -l svc:/system/hal:default fmri svc:/system/hal:default name Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon enabled true stateonline next_state none state_time Sun Dec 13 10:38:42 2020 logfile /var/svc/log/sys

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI new user questions - 2

2020-12-10 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:56:42PM +, Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss wrote: > Gary Mills,How far the boot process goes? Well, I booted into BIOS > and it boots until X11, which will not start. At that point, it is actually running a version of OI, coming from the USB image.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI new user questions - 2

2020-12-10 Thread Gary Mills
le. What graphics adapter are you using? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI new user questions

2020-12-07 Thread Gary Mills
and an illumos distribution to run simultaneously, you will have to use some form of virtualization. That's the only way. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Security alert: important fix for illumos-gate has been integrated

2020-10-26 Thread Gary Mills
update, done on 2020-07-05. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xorg missing privileges

2020-10-23 Thread Gary Mills
%s\n", $12)}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn > 75750 "sys_devices" > 173 "file_dac_search" > 4 "proc_owner" > 2 "file_dac_read" > > What has to be added to /etc/security/exec_attr.d/SOME_FILE to prevent this? It's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Qt5 and libgcc_s

2020-10-19 Thread Gary Mills
output written to LANShare > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [Makefile:303: LANShare] Error 1 It sounds as if the application requires gcc-6, but you tried to build it with gcc-7. Can you try gcc-6 instead? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Ma

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from Firefox does not work

2020-10-15 Thread Gary Mills
ve done the install some time ago, `pkg update' will not observe changes to mate_install . The only solution is to make mate_install something that can be installed permanently. At the very least, the gtk-backend-cups dependancies should be attached to real packages. -- -Gary Mills--ref

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from Firefox does not work

2020-10-15 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:35:37AM -0400, John D Groenveld wrote: > In message <20201015140917.ga18...@imap.fastmail.com>, Gary Mills writes: > >library/desktop/gtk2/gtk-backend-cups > >library/desktop/gtk3/gtk-backend-cups > > > >were not installed. These

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from Firefox does not work

2020-10-15 Thread Gary Mills
hould be installed with GTK or CUPS, probably with CUPS. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from Firefox does not work

2020-10-14 Thread Gary Mills
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 08:09:03PM +0200, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: > I have configured cups for my network printer and that one is available > in firefox. Thanks. I now understand that it's possible. I only need to know what I have to do to make it work for me. -- -Gary

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from Firefox does not work

2020-10-14 Thread Gary Mills
.0.1.20084i-- print/psutils 1.17-2020.0.1.2 i-- print/qpdf6.0.0-2020.0.1.0 i-- x11/keyboard/xkbprint 1.0.5-2020.0.1.0 i-- Have I omitted a package? -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from Firefox does not work

2020-10-14 Thread Gary Mills
option: print to file. How do I get Firefox to give me another option for printing to the `xerox' queue? I only have the one printer. Do I need to share this printer in CUPS? Is that it? Something else? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xerox B215 printer with CUPS

2020-09-30 Thread Gary Mills
ince we alread have CUPS on OI. I did find a ppd file that works nicely with CUPS on OI. It was on the CD that came with the printer. It was called xpb215.ppd . -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xerox B215 printer with CUPS

2020-09-30 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 08:56:27PM -0500, Gary Mills wrote: > > Does anyone have a ppd file for this printer that works on OI? I found one. It was on the CD that comes with the printer, in the PS directory. The name is xpb215.ppd . It's clearly Postscript, but that's fine. CUPS is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xerox B215 printer with CUPS

2020-09-28 Thread Gary Mills
What PDL method does CUPS use for this printer? > > I'm not using an Xerox printers current, so I don't know. You can > probably tell what CUPS will send to the printer by looking at the PPD, > though. I can't tell from the ppd file. I see `setpagedevice' all over the place. Th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xerox B215 printer with CUPS

2020-08-31 Thread Gary Mills
late. I haven't tried that PPD file yet. I've been working on something else, and also trying to limit my time sitting in front of my computer screens. So far, I'm only collecting suggestions about my new printer. Your suggestion is valuable. -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Xerox B215 printer with CUPS

2020-08-27 Thread Gary Mills
to know what it will do with this file. Will CUPS copy this file from anywhere, even from a temporary location? Have you done this? Did the PPD file improve the printing? Are you actually using this printer model? What PDL method does CUPS use for this printer? -- -Gary Mills--refurb

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] System unstable after pkg update Aug 6 and 8

2020-08-10 Thread Gary Mills
lly root@openindiana:/# zpool export rpool root@openindiana:/# zpool list no pools available root@openindiana:/# : init 5 -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate constrains window size

2020-08-06 Thread Gary Mills
maller font that allows the width to increase to 79. When I press the Maximize Window button in the title bar, the geometry does increase in both dimensions. Maybe this is how Mate is supposed to work. > If it works you can add your other settings peu à peu. -- -Gary Mills-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate constrains window size

2020-08-05 Thread Gary Mills
ted-frame) 80) > (set-frame-height (selected-frame) 30) > and press C-x C-e (for each line). That works too. In fact, by making them 81 and 37, I can enlarge the screen to 80x36 like I want it. When I put those two lines in my .emacs file, nothing happens. I assume they are not being

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate constrains window size

2020-08-04 Thread Gary Mills
or is caused by something left over from the Gnome desktop. Where should I look? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate constrains window size

2020-08-03 Thread Gary Mills
manager is constraining the window size. Is there some way I can tell the window manager to set the default size the way I want it? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What's the easiest, straight-shot way to upgrade to a new boot SSD?

2020-06-19 Thread Gary Mills
was thinking of using Clonezilla, but I'm not sure if that's the way to > go here. I'd recommend using native illumos commands instead. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing l

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Error updating from hipster-202000504

2020-06-07 Thread Gary Mills
On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 07:37:02PM +0200, Aurélien Larcher wrote: > Usually this happens when the repository is being refreshed or rebuilt. I retried the upgrade this morning. It was successful, with no errors. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Can

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