[osol-discuss] Re: floppy driver problems, [was: b17 copying behaviour?]

2005-07-04 Thread Jürgen Keil
bash-3.00# dd if=/dev/rdiskette of=/dev/null bs=18k dd: /dev/rdiskette: open: No such file or directory So, as far as Solaris is concerned, there is no floppy drive at all. It has worked fine before switching to new ACPI architecture. In prtconf -p output, is there an fdc node listed as a

Re: [osol-discuss] floppy driver problems, [was: b17 copying behaviour?]

2005-07-04 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens when you stop vold, and try to read from the PS/2 floppy using dd? # /etc/init.d/volmgt stop # dd if=/dev/rdiskette of=/dev/null bs=18k Does that report I/O errors? It does, sort of. bash-3.00# dd if=/dev/rdiskette

[osol-discuss] Re: floppy driver problems, [was: b17 copying behaviour?]

2005-07-04 Thread Jürgen Keil
I don't see any messages related to the floppy problem at the time I was accessing it. This is the same machine that had problems with PS/2 based mouse and keyboard and I had to switch to USB based ones. Juergen, there is nothing about fdc (or fd) in prtconf -p output: bash-3.00#

[osol-discuss] Re: Strange boot problems

2005-07-04 Thread Dana H. Myers
Hi, I have some really strange problems with booting Schillix on a PC with AMD Duron 650 and KT-133 chipset (IIRC). The boot hangs after printing: boot scratch memory used: 0x26102c If I remove the Mouse(PS-2), it boots. There are many ACPI error messages. Is there any hope

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Strange boot problems

2005-07-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dana H. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have some really strange problems with booting Schillix on a PC with AMD Duron 650 and KT-133 chipset (IIRC). The boot hangs after printing: boot scratch memory used: 0x26102c If I remove the Mouse(PS-2), it boots. There

Re: [osol-discuss] bite-size bugs

2005-07-04 Thread Casper . Dik
On 7/4/05, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a lot of the byte-size changes, it is possible to look at the source changes to know whether it is correct. If course not for all of them. Knowing whether a change is correct, and knowing whether that change will have ripple effects

[osol-discuss] [Fwd: [QueueNews] A Conversation with Tim Marsland]

2005-07-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Original Message A Conversation with Tim Marsland Taking software delivery to a new level. http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Contentpa=showpagepid=305 -- Tim is interviewed by BSD legend Kirk McKusick and explains how the lessons

[osol-discuss] A macsot for SchilliX

2005-07-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
I am not sure if this should be something different from the OpenSolaris macsot. Last week, I had an Idea and the next working I found a nice drawing at the door of my office. The drawing had been made by Thomas Hirsch, a collegue. The idea for SchilliX is: Schilli, the knight in shining

Re: [osol-discuss] A macsot for SchilliX

2005-07-04 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Forwarding to the marketing list. Jim G. Joerg Schilling wrote: I am not sure if this should be something different from the OpenSolaris macsot. Last week, I had an Idea and the next working I found a nice drawing at the door of my office. The drawing had been made by Thomas Hirsch, a

Re: [osol-discuss] floppy driver problems, [was: b17 copying behaviour?]

2005-07-04 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see quite a few acpica related messages (this is nevada b17) at boot time, here they are: Jun 30 12:18:31 lokrum acpica: [ID 972481 kern.warning] WARNING: AcpiOsWritePort: 70 8 not permitt ed Jun 30 12:18:31 lokrum acpica: [ID 815887

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: SchilliX pkgsrc Xorg packages available

2005-07-04 Thread Torrey McMahon
Joerg Schilling wrote: Torrey McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wait...we have the week off? No one ever tells me these things! :-P Does this mean that we will not see the build 18 sources soon? Got me on that one. Sorry. ___

[osol-discuss] [New Community Proposal] - starting an OpenSolaris JDS Desktop Community

2005-07-04 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, I'd like to start the ball rolling in getting an OpenSolaris Desktop Community launched. Let's face it, there's an awful lot of FUD being spread around OpenSolaris not being ready for the desktop - it's time to prove them wrong ;) I'd like to lead a desktop community focused on JDS.

Re: [osol-discuss] [New Community Proposal] - starting an OpenSolaris JDS Desktop Community

2005-07-04 Thread Stefan Teleman
On 7/4/05, Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I'd like to start the ball rolling in getting an OpenSolaris Desktop Community launched. Let's face it, there's an awful lot of FUD being spread around OpenSolaris not being ready for the desktop - it's time to prove them wrong ;) I'd

Re: [osol-discuss] [New Community Proposal] - starting an OpenSolaris JDS Desktop Community

2005-07-04 Thread Roy T . Fielding
I'd like to lead a desktop community focused on JDS. There's absolutely New Community Proposal focused on JDS ... gets my vote! +1 Roy ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [New Community Proposal] - starting an OpenSolaris JDS Desktop Community

2005-07-04 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Thanks, Glynn. Impressive. I can see you weren't kidding on this. :) Let's give the community some time (your two weeks is fine) to comment and we'll see where we are and what we can do. Thanks again, Jim Glynn Foster wrote: Hey, I'd like to start the ball rolling in getting an