On the other hand I never use the pageup/pagedown on the numeric
keypad because all those keys exist elsewhere.
I use them all the time.
I don't even really understand why a full size keyboard like
a Sun type 6/7 even needs the different states.
On MacOS X there is no way to ever change the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Surely changing it strikes me as a wanton change; making it configurable
is fine with me; changing the default is not. Especially since PCs have
a firmware setting which can be controlled; Solaris should not override
that firmware setting.
I'm not asserting we
Gee, when did this happen ?
Warning: rpm is obsolete for this device and will be
ignored.
Warning: number of alternate sectors per cylinder is
obsolete for this
device and will be ignored.
I have an old old disk here that I generally specify
this sort of thing :
newfs -s 3895720
On 10 Jul 2006, at 10:34, Darren J Moffat wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the other hand I never use the pageup/pagedown on the numeric
keypad because all those keys exist elsewhere.
I use them all the time.
I don't even really understand why a full size keyboard like
a Sun type 6/7 even
I think Dennis has a good point. We are looking at two issues that
should be *really* simple to do something about.
- graphic background for grub on install cd/dvd
- numlock on by default
What do others think?
If you mean we'd like to switch numlock on by default;
I think I'm ging to have
Yes ... I mean the numlock option is ON and the numeric keypad
on normal PC style keyboards works as digits not arrorws because
we already have a separate keypad for arrows on the keyboard.
We also have separate digits keys; they layout of the standard
four arrows is awkward at best.
Ifyou
hey erast,
this is pretty sweet.
after looking at the steps you have for creating zones i just wanted
to mention you could eliminate the zonecfg remove inherit-pkg-dir ...
steps by using the blank template to create your zone. ie, in zonecfg
do create -b. Then the zone won't have the
He is right handed and like a lot of right handed people he simply moved
his
hand to the numeric keypad and hit the 1 key. But the numlock option on
the keyboard is not on when you boot the Solaris CDROM and thus he got
garbage. Since the backspace key has never worked right he got more of
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since PCs have a default Numlock on setting, I see no reason to
enforce this in Solaris; certainly not at the detriment of people who
go out of their way to disable it or who hit numlock as soon as they see
the numlock light come on.
As someone
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Alan Hargreaves wrote:
I think Dennis has a good point. We are looking at two issues that should
be
*really* simple to do something about.
- graphic background for grub on install cd/dvd
Great idea.
not any longer ... see message from Jan Setje-Eilers
[EMAIL
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Your a rare bird.
Rare?! Casper is unique! :-)
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President,
Rite Online Inc.
Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Simply put, a friend of mine tried to install Solaris and gave up because he
was convinced that the graphics card and keyboard were not supported.
Forget MAC and the fact that there are digits on the QWERTY keyboard across
the top row. The average user
Recently I had a friend ask me why his ATI graphics
card was not working
with Solaris 10 Update 2. I asked him what kind of
machine it was and it
turned out to be some common dog hardware. Nothing
fancy. But he was
convinced that the graphics card was being ignored
because the
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote:
not any longer ... see message from Jan Setje-Eilers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on that issue.
Yep, saw that...
--
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member
President,
Rite Online Inc.
Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich
The aim is for developers. Since ATI and nVidia control the majority
of the market, we should get your friend's problem fixed.Â
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
Recently I had a friend ask me why his ATI graphics
card was not working
with Solaris 10 Update 2. I asked him what kind of
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Simply put, a friend of mine tried to install Solaris and gave up because
he
was convinced that the graphics card and keyboard were not supported.
Forget MAC and the fact that there are digits on the QWERTY keyboard
across
the top row. The
Alan Hargreaves wrote:
Date: Thursday, July 6
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Sun Solution (formerly iForce) Centre. Ground floor 33 Berry
St, North Sydney
See http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/sosug for a link
to a map.
Speakers
First Birthday Party
Food Drink available,
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 09:48 -0700, Edward Pilatowicz wrote:
hey erast,
this is pretty sweet.
after looking at the steps you have for creating zones i just wanted
to mention you could eliminate the zonecfg remove inherit-pkg-dir ...
steps by using the blank template to create your zone. ie,
The aim is for developers. Since ATI and nVidia control the majority
of the market, we should get your friend's problem fixed.
I was able to walk him through the whole process just fine and it really
came down to a misunderstanding. He saw that basic GRUB screen and assumed
that graphics
Rich Teer wrote:
- numlock on by default
Not a fan of this; many systems allow one to set the default state
of the Num lock key, and I think the installer should honour that.
If the installer honours the system setting, I think everyone will
be happy.
Overriding the BIOS setting to force
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Rich Teer wrote:
- numlock on by default
Not a fan of this; many systems allow one to set the default state
of the Num lock key, and I think the installer should honour that.
If the installer honours the system setting, I think everyone will
be happy.
Overriding
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Rich Teer wrote:
- numlock on by default
Not a fan of this; many systems allow one to set the default state
of the Num lock key, and I think the installer should honour that.
If the installer honours the system setting, I think everyone will
be happy.
Overriding the
Or would it perhaps make more sense to have the install program(s) do a
better job of processing input? For the most part, there are very few
valid keys for each input. Instead of echo'ing garbage to the screen,
why not print a message, or beep, or do nothing
Yes; the install program
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Rich Teer wrote:
- numlock on by default
Not a fan of this; many systems allow one to set the default state
of the Num lock key, and I think the installer should honour that.
If the installer honours the system setting, I think everyone will
be happy.
Overriding
Dennis Clarke wrote:
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Rich Teer wrote:
- numlock on by default
Not a fan of this; many systems allow one to set the default state
of the Num lock key, and I think the installer should honour that.
If the installer honours the system setting, I think everyone will
be
We have software that requires the checksum offload feature to be disabled
with any Solaris release to work. We modify packets and recompute
the checksum using an algorthim that uses the differences to update the
checksum. With Solaris 10, we have observed checksum errors in the IP header
when
cdrecord 2.01.01.a10 will be in snv 44. Since a11 just came out yesterday,
it'll take a couple of builds to get it in since the cdrecord releases come out
pretty fast sometimes.
Phi
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Phi N. Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
cdrecord 2.01.01.a10 will be in snv 44. Since a11 just came out yesterday,
it'll take a couple of builds to get it in since the cdrecord releases come
out
pretty fast sometimes.
This is no problem. The main source change was to supress a warning from
Thanks, Colin. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to
get you set up.
Eric
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Colin Zou wrote:
This project will deliver a framework (including a security sub-framework), some
device drivers and a config tool to support wireless USB on opensolaris.
Wireless USB (WUSB),
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
I could be wrong, but I don't think Solaris is being developed with an aim, or
any slightest interest, to reach out to Windows/Linux users.
Again, I could be wrong, but everything I have experienced (except BeleniX, but
how much support is it geting?) tells me that I am
Hi all,
Given that GNOME is Sun's forward direction for windowing environments, I
have been trying to use it more often (the photo previewer in Nautilus
makes this easier to do!). The trouble is, as a long-term CDE user, there
are several major road blocks to my doing this.
At the top of the
This is a excited project. I'm fed up with ftp to solaris from windows system
to share files. My question is, when can I get a prototype to try it ?
Actaully, I have worked on linux filesystem and I would like to make some
contribution. But I failed to find the project by smbfs. I think
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 20:07 -0700, Rich Teer wrote:
Hi all,
Given that GNOME is Sun's forward direction for windowing environments, I
have been trying to use it more often
Well done (:
(the photo previewer in Nautilus
makes this easier to do!). The trouble is, as a long-term CDE user,
ok, that sounds logical, but i just did a dmesg and i get this pertaining to
the CD drive:
Jul 10 22:54:59 desiderata genunix: [ID 640982 kern.info] ATAPI device at
targ 0, lun 0 lastlun 0x0
Jul 10 22:54:59 desiderata genunix: [ID 846691 kern.info] model
MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ-845S
Jul
Patrick wrote:
ok, that sounds logical, but i just did a dmesg and i get this pertaining to
the CD drive:
Jul 10 22:54:59 desiderata genunix: [ID 640982 kern.info] ATAPI device at
targ 0, lun 0 lastlun 0x0
Jul 10 22:54:59 desiderata genunix: [ID 846691 kern.info] model
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