Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: TEST-pkg available: Hipster's future VirtualBox-5.1.6-SunOS-amd64-r110634.pkg

2016-09-19 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
One simple request: when replying to messages, especially long messages, please do not include everything in your response. Thank you! A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] TEST-pkg VirtualBox 5.16

2016-09-19 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> I downloaded and installed the TEST-pkg of VirtualBox 5.1.6 > unfortunately everyone of VBOX started instantly aborted. I tried to > install VirtualBox 5.0.26 but that detected and open source version of > solaris and the installation would not complete even using Jim's > vboxconfig.sh. I had

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Q: What is status of dtrace on /hipster ?

2016-09-16 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
I would like to just say that whenever I am trying to compile a programming language (Haskell, Mono, etc.), it is better to disable support for dtrace as it makes compilation fail. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Q: What is status of dtrace on /hipster ?

2016-09-16 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>I have to say, this is the silliest recommendation ever. A language without >the ability to dtrace >it is a language that I won't bother using. This is not a recommendation. It is something I have seen many times. Since I wanted to use some application in the language I disabled dtrace.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntfs-3g

2016-09-26 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> > I feel this way of identifying a partition as rather dangerous. > After your suggestions, I have used the following command: # ntfs-3g /dev/dsk/c4t0d0p1 /mnt The command worked! Thank you. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ntfs-3g

2016-09-25 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I kust wanted to check ntfs-3g and I downloaded and installed the packages from http://jp-andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/openindiana-ntfs-3g.html However, it seems that it is not working. # rmformat -l Looking for devices... 1. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c2t3d0p0 Physical Node:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] nVIDIA again

2016-09-30 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, Some weeks ago I reported my problems with the nVIDIA driver. Sometimes when I booted my system, the screen got black and nothing happened. Then I had to reset the system. Here is what /var/adm/messages reported just before the manual reboot: Sep 27 15:38:42 adalind nvidia: [ID

[OpenIndiana-discuss] cannot update system

2016-11-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I tried to update my current OI installation and I got the following message: DOWNLOADPKGS FILESXFER (MB) SPEED Completed 1131/1131 26755/267551063/1063 925k/s PHASE

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] cannot update system

2016-11-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> > How to install MATE is literally the next section in the Release Notes, > after the one that covers how to fix the update problem. > OK I have installed MATE and it works now. Thank you! However, I have noticed that there is some problem with sound capabilities. First there is no gadget to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] cannot update system

2016-11-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> > This has been discussed on the list multiple times, and it's described > in the release notes, in one of the very first sections: > Probably I wasn't paying much attention :-( But after applying the work-around I managed to update the system but I did not get MATE, the latest Xorg and my

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster 2016.10 snapshot

2016-11-02 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> I had problem with libreoffice (LO) after SFE has changed gcc location. > Had to uninstall LO (together with related packages) and install it from > scratch. See http://sfe.opencsw.org/comment/175#comment-175 and comments > above. Now it works fine. It says that the following commands pfexec

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster 2016.10 snapshot

2016-11-02 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
After I did #pkg install pkg://openindiana.org/developer/gcc-49 LibreOffice works just fine. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] cannot update system

2016-11-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
I think I have solved the sound problem. I just played a bit with Applications --> Video & Sound --> Sound (the titles are in Greek so I am translating) A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] cannot update system

2016-11-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> > Do you remember if you had to make any changes in there, or was it enough > to just start that application, to get audio working? > Just starting the application was enough. I did not do anything special. After all, there are very few things one can configure. A.S.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GNOME3

2016-11-03 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> > Yes, but 1 year behind is a much smaller problem than 5.5 years and > a major release behind. It shouldn't take us 5 years to update again > now. > Personally I consider it a step forward. But of course there are those who still believe that Solaris/OI Hipster are server only OSs... A.S.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [HEADS UP] OpenOffice was dropped from OI Hipster

2016-10-28 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> > Due to long standing issue with saving documents in different formats > (https://www.illumos.org/issues/5210), which noone was able to fix and a > big support burden required to do it, today I've marked Apache > OpenOffice as deprecated. Users are recommended to use libreoffice from > SFE

[OpenIndiana-discuss] GNOME3

2016-11-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
It seems they have ported GNOME3 toSolaris.LGNOME 3 finally integrates into Solaris dev train! https://t.co/qQzTSUAIz5 Congrats to @alanc and team!  AS Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo σε Android ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] (I've probably asked this before but my search of the list fails) ffmpeg version and compile time options

2016-12-12 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> FFmpeg can use several libraries. But as libraries (which ffmpeg can > use) use different licensing, if you compile ffmpeg with all options > enabled, you get binary, which you can't redistribute according to > GPLv2 license. Correct remark! That is why I explained how one can compile ffmpeg

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new install vertical line in display

2016-12-16 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> > This time it is not true. Gordon Ross is one who does most of drm work > now. Of course, without Martin this effort likely wouldn't even started. > We have a saying: Better late than never! A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] (I've probably asked this before but my search of the list fails) ffmpeg version and compile time options

2016-12-11 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Well compiling ffmpeg is very easy these days. For example, I have compiled x264 and lame and I have installed then under /opt/gnu and I have use the following commands to compile ffmpeg: $ export CFLAGS="-I/opt/gnu/include" $ export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/gnu/lib -R/opt/hnu/lib" ./configure

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] (I've probably asked this before but my search of the list fails) ffmpeg version and compile time options

2016-12-11 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
o, please. If you can (I am know that you can, open PR) for this feature. > > Cheers, > Adam > > >> On Dec 11, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss > <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: >> >> Well compiling ffmpeg is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [HEADS UP] Updated Graphics DRM code was integrated

2016-12-19 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> Now OI should support generation 2/3/4/5 Intel Adapters. Great news! Congratulations to all the people involved. I have tested the experimental DVD and I have already installed in a couple of machines. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new install vertical line in display

2016-12-16 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> > There is a new version of drm/i915 currently in testing for OI. > Could you try one of the following images and see if it improves the > situation? > Hello, First of all, it is really good that work goes on this. It is of course sad that a distro develops a kernel driver while the kernel

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: Ext 2 Support

2017-04-03 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Which stupidity? If you like somethingso much either compile it yourselfand contribute your build! AS Στις Δευ, 3 Απρ, 2017 στις 16:46, ο χρήστηςGordon Miller έγραψε: I'm out. I simply don't have time for this stupidity.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] USB3

2017-04-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, Does anyone know what happened with the USB3 support?At some time people working on it released a DVD butafter that nothing happened. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HTML5 video issues with Firefox

2017-04-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
On Sat, Apr 1, 2017, 8:13:06 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:>I can play the video on OpenIndiana Hipster without problems. >Are any codecs missing on your side? Are you sure you are using OpenIndiana? I have tried most of the thingssuggested below but nothing works!

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HTML5 video issues with Firefox

2017-04-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
I have the same problem but it seems that Facebook assumes that whenyou are using a desktop you have to use FLASH to play videos. How Firefoxon FreeBSD plays videos is a mystery... On smartphones,it uses HTML5. The following leads to a video

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] glxgears

2017-03-06 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
This is the output of the commands you asked. $ ls -l /var/run/opengl/lib/libGL.so.1 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  30 Μαρ  6 15:26 /var/run/opengl/lib/libGL.so.1 -> /usr/X11/lib/NVIDIA/libGL.so.1 $ svcs -a *ogl-select* svcs: -a ignored when used with arguments. STATE  STIME   

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] glxgears

2017-03-06 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
$ ldd /usr/bin/glxgears     libGL.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libGL.so.1     libm.so.2 =>     /lib/libm.so.2     libX11.so.4 =>     /usr/lib/libX11.so.4     libc.so.1 =>     /lib/libc.so.1     libexpat.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1     libxcb-dri3.so.0 =>     /usr/lib/libxcb-dri3.so.0    

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] glxgears

2017-03-07 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Probably this one (this is from my box, glxgears works): As you can see I am getting the same output: $  svcprop ogl-select | grep vendor options/vendor astring notset  A.S.-- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] glxgears

2017-03-07 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Also, I have noticed this! pwd /usr/include/GL apostolo@adalind>> ls -l ../../../var/run/opengl/include/gl.h lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  31 Μαρ  7 15:05 ../../../var/run/opengl/include/gl.h -> /usr/X11/include/NVIDIA/GL/gl.h apostolo@adalind>> ls -l /usr/X11/include/NVIDIA/GL/gl.h

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] glxgears

2017-03-07 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Is options/vendor property of ogl-select service set? Pardon me but I have no idea what this means. However,I getthe following: $ /usr/bin/constype NVDAnvda $ svcs |grep ogl online 15:05:50 svc:/application/opengl/ogl-select:default A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] glxgears

2017-03-07 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Do you use driver, downloaded from NVidia directly? Yes and right now I >installed NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-375.39 A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

[OpenIndiana-discuss] glxgears

2017-03-05 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I tried to run glxgears and I discovered that it does not work: $ glxgears libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)   Major opcode of failed request: 

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HTML5 video issues with Firefox

2017-04-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Yes, I am quite sure - I am a contributor for oi userland ;-) OK I believe you :) >If is's not a codec it might be the graphics card. I am using an NVIDIA >Quattro K2000. I am using a GeForce GT 730... -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [CFT] Xorg 1.18.4 update repository

2017-04-27 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> > In recent weeks we have fixed several issues with Intel drm driver and > Xorg server 1.18. So we are ready for second round of testing. > Kudos go to Aurélien and Gordon for their hard work and, of course, > to Alan for his help and consulting. > Excellent! > Instructions available here >

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: many duplicates - Re: OpenIndiana Hipster at Servethehome (call for a regular minimal stable)

2017-04-27 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
I have receive one message 4 times and asecond one 5 times... AS Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo σε Android ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 22 inventions of Ukrainians who are known to the world

2017-08-18 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Last summer it was Martin that was annoying... Now wehave this. Please do not post anything not related toOI to this list. There are many other fora to discussthe problems of Ukraine. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece On Fri, Aug 18, 2017, 10:36:44 AM, Илья

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster 2017.04 snapshot

2017-05-03 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, Today I upgraded my system and it works just fine. I have an NVIDIAcard so I could not check improvements related to Xorg. Since mymachine has USB3 ports I tried to see if they work. They don't.First of all here is what I have node name:  pci1849,7052 Vendor:   

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster 2017.04 snapshot

2017-05-03 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Hi, Apostolos. >Could you file issue at http://bugs.illumos.org/ ? Done: #8151 created. However, I don't expect anything... A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: USB 3 on OI Hipster 2017.05

2017-05-09 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, The computer has this motherboard GA-78LMT-USB3 (rev. 6.0) http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-78LMT-USB3-rev-60#ov And this processor: AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core: FX-6300 | | | | || | | | | | FX-6300 | | | | The  CPU is also a GPU and it

[OpenIndiana-discuss] hotmail

2017-05-30 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I have noticed that since yesterday I cannot connect to my hotmail mail account.I am using firefox54.0.2 ESR and the message I get follows: Invalid OCSP signing certificate in OCSP response. Error code: SEC_ERROR_OCSP_INVALID_SIGNING_CERT I have checked to connect to my account using

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] /hipster: xargs coredumps

2017-06-16 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I updated my system last April and the command $ uname -rosv SunOS 5.11 illumos-62f1951aca Solaris does not work! Here is what I get $ uname -rosv uname: illegal option -- o usage:  uname [-snrvmapiX] uname [-S system_name] So this is a new command line option or what?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] USB 3 on OI Hipster 2017.05

2017-05-08 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, Here is a success story: node name:  pci1458,5007 Vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device: VL805 USB 3.0 Host Controller Sub-Vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd binding name:   

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BTX halted

2017-05-06 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
My friend has used the latest bits. Now aboutthe USB 3 thing, I think you did the right thing.But the real problem that the driver shouldn'tbe part of illumos-gate simply because itis not ready! I have asked people to tell mehow can I help testing  the driver but nooneresponded! I tried the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hotmail

2017-05-30 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>This seems to be a known problem: >>https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/12163379/ >Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate and firefox denies to load those >pages because they are considered insecure. Thank you. This of course explains why Firefox on OI

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: So is Solaris officially supported till 2034?

2017-09-05 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
I started this thread in order to see what isthe status of Oracle Solaris but it seems thatsome people think that the end of OracleSolaris is the end of Illumos! This definitelynot true. We have to adapt ourselves to thesituation. AS Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo σε Android

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool on the second partition of an external disk

2017-09-08 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>p2 is, by convention, "whole disk" when using old-style partitioning. >If you're using that and you've partitioned the disk, I think you've >trashed your NTFS partition or (worse) you have an overlap. > >Are you sure?  What exactly does "format" say about the partition map? This is what fdisk

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool on the second partition of an external disk

2017-09-08 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>I should mind my p's and s's.  Thanks, Andrew; you're right.  I was >thinking of s2, not p2. So what I did what correct, right? I have mounted both partitions and the dataare there and I can read and write. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece

[OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool on the second partition of an external disk

2017-09-07 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I have an external USB disk. The disk is pre-formatted with NTFSbut I would like to use it to  back up things from hard disks.An ideal solution would be to create two partitions on thisdisks and have an NTFS partition and a second partition whereI can create a zpool and then a zfs. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] So is Solaris officially supported till 2034?

2017-09-06 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
http://www.zdnet.com/article/sun-set-oracle-closes-down-last-sun-product-lines/ or Why Oracle has ruined everything even Iron Man! A.S. --Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool on the second partition of an external disk

2017-09-07 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Ok, but what is the problem? >What is the output and stderr of your zpool create cXtYdZp2 command? >Does it gives any error? After more searching I concluded that the command should be # zpool create -f utank c13t0d0s2 The logical Node was  /dev/rdsk/c13t0d0p0and format --> partition --> print

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] So is Solaris officially supported till 2034?

2017-09-05 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>So we need a klx (kernel-lx) project to run linux drivers? ;) > >Do vendors support BSDs well?... This is a good remark. The problem is that we need people to contribute.For example, if you have students ask them to do things for the OS as partof some project. A.S. --

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Some opt to open their systems while others don't

2017-10-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Apple has just open the source code ofall versions of MacOS and IOS. https://opensource.apple.com/  Regards, A.S. Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo σε Android ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] glxgears

2017-08-24 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Yes and right now I installed NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-375.39 Some months ago I reported that glxgears did not work on mysystem. I was using the 375.39 driver. Today I manuallyupgraded to 384.59 and now glxgrears works just fine!I cannot explain this but it works. A.S. --

[OpenIndiana-discuss] HDMI and sound

2017-08-26 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
    Hello,     I am using a TV instead of a "normal" monitor and to reduce the number of wiresI thought it is a good idea to use an HDMI cable instead of a VGA and the "normal"sound output. I have noticed that there is no sound, is it possible to fix thisproblem? I am using an nVIDIA card.    

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDMI and sound

2017-08-27 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Not having similar hardware, I can't try for myself.  But have you tried >googling for the words >audio hdmi solaris nvidia Someone suggested to use the relink trick described below https://alanhargreaves.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/making-audio-default-to-a-second-sound-device-in-solaris-11/ but

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDMI and sound

2017-08-28 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
In my case, I have found that a solution to the problem of using HDMI plusanalog audio is the following: http://support-us.samsung.com/cyber/popup/iframe/pop_troubleshooting_fr.jsp?idx=51469 A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDMI and sound

2017-08-28 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>It also has a problem controlling the device: Same problem here (0 --> onboard, 2 --> nVidia) apostolo@adalind>> audioctl show-control -d /dev/sound/audiohd\:0ctl CONTROL  VALUE      volume   100    mic  58:58      line-in 

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDMI and sound

2017-08-28 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Professionally speaking, don't use the Nvidia audio processor for any serious >work.Either use a good audio >processor on the motherboard or a dedicated >sound card/device (highly preferred).>I'm speaking mainly on the Nvidia audio >processors integrated on their graphic cards. You can use it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDMI and sound

2017-08-28 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I have run the following commands apostolo@adalind>> audioctl show-deviceDevice: /dev/sound/audiohd:0mixer   Name    = audiohd#0   Config  = ATI HD Audio (SB600)   HW Info = HD codec: Realtek ALC662 apostolo@adalind>> audioctl show-device -d /dev/sound/audiohd\:2mixer Device:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] So is Solaris officially supported till 2034?

2017-09-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
My question was very simple and I got a simple answer. Now, Illumos is not Solaris. It is a Solaris clone. Personally, I prefer Illumos over Solaris but they are not the same thing.  That Solaris is supported until 2034 does not mean that it will be able to runon hardware that will be available

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] UBS NIC?

2017-08-30 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Second the recommendation to get a PCI-based network interface.  Even if>you >can get the USB-based one to work, it'll be slow enough that you'll>wish you'd >opted for the PCI card.  And the prices are pretty much the >same these days. Finally I bought a PIC-based NIC and now my system is up

[OpenIndiana-discuss] UBS NIC?

2017-08-29 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, My computer's motherboard was faulty so I had to buya new one. I was not careful enough and I bought onethat includes a NIC that is not supoported (it hasa Qualcomm Atheros killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller). A friend of mine suggested to use a USB to Ethernet device. The problem

[OpenIndiana-discuss] So is Solaris officially dead?

2017-09-03 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2017/09/04/oracle_layoffs_solaris_sparc_teams/ Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo σε Android ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GCC6 build zone status

2017-12-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Only ocaml remains :) >So aside from openjdk-8 I'll have 100% gcc-6 compiled userland repository by >the end of the day :) So this means that the next release of hipster will be based on gcc 6? This is certainly a big stepforward! Congratulations for this achievement! A.S.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] cannot copy text from PDF file using atril

2017-11-12 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I have noticed that it is almost impossible to mark text on a PDF file and copy it when using atril. The previousversion of atril did not show this problem. Is this afeature/bug or something I see only on my system? Regards,A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] cannot copy text from PDF file using atril

2017-11-12 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>OK so it does not work with any PDF file you created then. >I generate mine with pdflatex bundled with TeXLive and have no issue. >I guess it would be good to understand the difference. You have no problem but I do have problem with all PDF files I have tested(the creator is irrelevant). And

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] cannot copy text from PDF file using atril

2017-11-12 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Interestingly, I have noticed that when I open a file generated by XeLaTeX which is displayed at 100% magnitude, I can copy and paste text from the PDF file. But when I change the magnitude this is not possible any more! A.S.   -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] cannot copy text from PDF file using atril

2017-11-12 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Could it be specific to the PDF you are working on? >Check File -> Properties -> Security. > >I just tried with a few PDFs without any problem. I have created the PDFs with XeLaTeX and there is no security,no anything. In fact, marking does not work with any PDF file. A.S.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] missing printer

2017-11-13 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Today I tried to use Atril to "print" a page to file. The print menu did notshow any printer not even the "print to file" printer. I manuallyinstalledthe gtk-backend-cups which was missing from my system using the following command: pkg install pkg:/library/desktop/gtk3/gtk-backend-cups Now

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Latest hipster update

2017-11-09 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, Yesterday I updated my system to the latest version of hipster.Everything works just fine. The "problem" I have noticed is thatwhen I open a terminal I see the following message: ld.so.1: quota: warning: /usr/lib/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0: open failed: illegal insecure pathname The Illumos

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] lightdm fails!

2018-05-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
In order to try to understand what is possible wrong, I tried to run lightdm in my porevious BE that contained thed November 2017 bits. When I enter the following command a black screen pops up that disappears immediately and I see some messages on the terminal: $ /usr/sbin/lightdm --test-mode

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] lightdm fails!

2018-05-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Back in January I tried to enable lightdm which failed and I got this: lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/vt/7'[ Ιαν 25 22:22:54 Stopping because service disabled. ][ Ιαν 25 22:22:54 Executing stop method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-lightdm stop").  ] kill: 2493: no such process [ Ιαν 25 22:22:54 Method "stop"

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] lightdm fails!

2018-05-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
And here is what I get on the new BE: [ Μαΐ  4 19:34:25 Stopping because all processes in service exited. ] [ Μαΐ  4 19:34:25 Executing stop method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-lightdm stop"). ] kill: 719: no such process [ Μαΐ  4 19:34:25 Method "stop" exited with status 1. ] [ Μαΐ  4 19:34:25

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] lightdm fails!

2018-05-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>> ** (process:1026): WARNING **: Error reading existing Xauthority: Failed to >> open file ?/home/apostolo/.Xauthority?: Permission denied >> Error writing X authority: Failed to open X authority >> /home/apostolo/.Xauthority: Permission denied > >You can either fix permissions on it (it should

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the status of UEFI boot support?

2018-05-08 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Copying just loader.efi and running it from EFI Shell says "Illumos...(a >few lines)... start not found" and shows "ok" prompt. But copying the whole >/boot/* and running boot1.efi works fine. Thank you. I think it would be nice to give a detailed description of the process so one can reproduce

[OpenIndiana-discuss] lightdm fails!

2018-05-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, In my system I tried  once to enable lightdm but I could not log in so I reverted to gdm that worked just fine. The latest version of hipster has removed all gdm related things and now I cannot log in to my account! The login screen appears, I enter my user name and my password, the screen

[OpenIndiana-discuss] gphoto2 and gtkam not working

2018-05-20 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I am trying to use download pictures from my digital camera using gtkam and gphoto2 but it fails. For example, here is what gphoto2 reports: $ gphoto2 -auto-detect Abilities for camera : Nikon S2     Serial port support  : no USB

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] gphoto2 and gtkam not working

2018-05-20 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, >do you see something like this in dmesg when you do `gphoto2 --list-files`? > >May 20 20:00:12 lenovo usba: [ID 691482 kern.warning] WARNING: >/pci@0,0/pci17aa,21da@1a (ehci0): Unrecoverable USB Hardware Error demsg contains messages like the following ones: May 20 18:07:31 adalind

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mkvmerge fails

2018-05-23 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Multimedia libraries were updated recently, though advertized as ABI >compatible. >If you compiled mkvmerge and mkvextract yourself then you may need to rebuild >them. Thanks for the suggestion. I rebuild the mkvtools and now they work as expected. A.S. PS So something else is responsible

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mkvmerge fails

2018-05-23 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>See if ffmpeg works for you.  Something like> >ffmpeg -i video.avi -i audio.avi -map 0:0 -map 1:0 -c copy -f matroska >games.mkv First I have compiled both ffmpeg and mkvtools. fmpeg --version ffmpeg version 3.4.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers   built with gcc 4.9.4 (GCC)  

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Wine and recent Openindiana

2018-05-22 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> Hi, can you rebuild it with -ggdb -O0 and resend the back trace? $ gdb /opt/gnu/wine/bin/wine core GNU gdb (GDB) 7.10.1 Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software: you are free to change

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nvdia driver

2018-06-13 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> http://http.download.nvidia.com/solaris/ The latest driver does not show up in the main download page! Probably they need to update the web page. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Wine and recent Openindiana

2018-06-11 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>I found an article (https://lwn.net/Articles/741878/) stating that " On >current Linux systems, the LDT is almost unused but some applications >(Wine, for example) still need it. When it is used, the LDT must be >available to both kernel and user space, but it must live in kernel >space." >

[OpenIndiana-discuss] nvdia driver

2018-06-12 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
I have noticed that the latest nvidia driver for both Linux and FreeBSD has version number 390.67 while the latest driver for Solaris has version number 387.34... It seems they are leaving us behind... A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece

[OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD Rysen 3

2018-06-20 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I recently built a system with a Rysen 3 1200 processor https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-3-1200 and a GA-A320M-DS2 motherboard https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-A320M-DS2-rev-10#kf When I booted the system with live DVD everything was OK except the "ERROR: failed to

[OpenIndiana-discuss] still no proper Greek keyboard

2018-05-03 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, Today I updated to the latest bits but still cannot produced accented letters with my keyboard. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] time/date f*up after update

2018-01-06 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
/usr/sbin/ntpdate 3.gr.pool.ntp.org/usr/sbin/ntpdate 3.gr.pool.ntp.org>The date command accepts only the time  day and month, does not recognize>the year, stays on 1986. >While booting I am getting a warning , Time-of-day chip unresponsive, >time-of-day clock error reason jumped by 0x3a5c4dc3

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate 1.18 Desktop menu reset commands

2018-02-19 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Is there a set command in oi I can try to now reset the main menu ? Delete the file $HOME/.config/dconf/user A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] boot failure

2018-07-18 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Well, booting from DVD is better when USB3 support is not broken. Should >this be the problem, one can boot from USB2 drive (preferably in USB2 >port, if available). Unless we have at least some error message, we can >only guess, be it the NVMe disk or what not. Ask him to enable verbose

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] boot failure

2018-07-19 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>I've seen this on Kaby Lake system but don't remember how/if I >workarounded it. Last chance: disable ACPI in the bootloader. OK this last "trick" allowed him to finally boot the system. Now the question is: Once the system is installed is it necessary to disable ACPI everytime he boots the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] boot failure

2018-07-19 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>A simple > >echo "acpi-user-options=2" > /boot/conf.d/acpi > >does the trick Thank you so much! A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] boot failure

2018-07-14 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
On Saturday, July 14, 2018, 1:28:00 AM GMT+3, Michal Nowak wrote: >Did he booted the latest GUI image with UEFI enabled on the laptop? UEFI >does not work correctly at the moment. I suggest he either boots off >Legacy BIOS, or toggles "Live SSH" in the bootloader and waits for X to

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: mounting an existing system on a b

2018-09-10 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
It is openindiana. This is not Oracle Solaris. Regards, Apostolos ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] boot failure

2018-07-13 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, A friend of mine got a Lenovo Y520 legion laptop which is presented in the link below https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Legion-Y520-15IKBN-7700HQ-FHD-GTX-1050-Ti-Laptop-Review.223480.0.html He tried to install the latest OI. He used a USB to boot the system. The boot loader

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Greek keyboard

2018-03-12 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I few days I updated one computer with the latestbits: SunOS nadya 5.11 illumos-e9bacc6d1a i86pc i386 i86pc I have noticed that the Greek keyboard is not working. In particular, I cannot enter accents ordialitika (two little dots above certain vowels).Also, I cannot type Greek letter in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Something is wrong with gmp.h

2018-03-12 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>The header fix is delivered since 2016 and we have never delivered >/usr/include/gmp.h since then:> >https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/tree/oi/hipster/components/library/gmp/patches > >Could it be pulled from SFE? I did a fresh install of my system in the summer of 2016. Since then

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Greek keyboard

2018-03-13 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Roll back data-xkb to previous version. > >pkg install data-xkb@2.22 > >I guess they broke the keymaps again... I did it but still I cannot type Greek in pluma,and in LibreOffice when I type ; + vowel I see'v. So I guess they did not broke keymaps, theyactualy f%^&* them... A.S.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Greek keyboard

2018-03-14 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I installed ibus andI run  ibus-daemon but I see the same behavior. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

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