[osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
OSS is in the pipeline and should be in Nevada sometime soon. GStreamer currently only supports SunAudio, but should also support OSS when it becomes available in Nevada. what do you mean? nevada might ship this: http://www.4front-tech.com/solaris.html? If so, it sure would be

[osol-discuss] qlc or fp drivers? solaris10

2007-04-30 Thread shay
hello I have V240 , solaris10, QLA2342(HBA), connected to AMS500(HDS storage). 1. why I cannot see the Luns on PROM? 2. how I descover luns on the PROM? -- Details : -- ok show-devs . /[EMAIL PROTECTED],70/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1 /[EMAIL PROTECTED],70/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] qlc or fp drivers? solaris10

2007-04-30 Thread Cyril Plisko
shay, [I think storage-discuss mailing list is more appropriate for this sort of questions.] On 4/30/07, shay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello I have V240 , solaris10, QLA2342(HBA), connected to AMS500(HDS storage). 1. why I cannot see the Luns on PROM? 2. how I descover luns on the PROM?

Re: [osol-discuss] qlc or fp drivers? solaris10

2007-04-30 Thread Ian Collins
shay wrote: hello I have V240 , solaris10, QLA2342(HBA), connected to AMS500(HDS storage). Please use another support channel for Solaris 10 issues, these lists are for OpensSolaris topics. Ian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] qlc or fp drivers? solaris10

2007-04-30 Thread James C. McPherson
shay wrote: hello I have V240 , solaris10, QLA2342(HBA), connected to AMS500(HDS storage). 1. why I cannot see the Luns on PROM? 2. how I descover luns on the PROM? -- Details : -- ok show-devs . /[EMAIL PROTECTED],70/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1 /[EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] qlc or fp drivers? solaris10

2007-04-30 Thread Cyril Plisko
On 4/30/07, James C. McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shay wrote: format (the lun is): 4. c3t50060E801022CFD0d0 HITACHI-DF600F--25.00GB /[EMAIL PROTECTED],70/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 Are you sure that this is attached with qlc? It looks to me

[osol-discuss] Spam on board candidates mailing list

2007-04-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Is it possible to avoid this? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily

Re: [osol-discuss] qlc or fp drivers? solaris10

2007-04-30 Thread James C. McPherson
Cyril Plisko wrote: On 4/30/07, James C. McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shay wrote: format (the lun is): 4. c3t50060E801022CFD0d0 HITACHI-DF600F--25.00GB /[EMAIL PROTECTED],70/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 Are you sure that this is attached with

Re: [osol-discuss] SunCluster 3.1 moving DAVA from D1000 to SAN-AMS_500

2007-04-30 Thread Atul Vidwansa
Hi shay, Suncluster is not opensourced, so you better ask your local support to forward this query to Suncluster group. I will try to answer as much I can. 1. Once you carve out luns out of your new storage and expose them to Suncluster nodes, either run devfsadm followed by scdidadm -r or

[osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Jürgen Keil
xvideo used to work much better on older versions of xorg with my radeon 7000 card (I don't know what has changed recently to make it slow down so dramatically); Somewhere between snv_55b and snv_60 (snv_58?) linker options in the Xorg build have changed, which did break the Xv extension for

[osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Ken Mays
Just an update: 1. snv_62 (5.11) has X11 7.0.2 (latest: v7.2). 2. Commercial version of OSS 4.0 has professional sound card support. 3. GStreamer 0.10.12 is preferred for testing purposes. 4. Professional grade MIDI support is suggested. For people in the RME products (i.e.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Jürgen Keil wrote: xvideo used to work much better on older versions of xorg with my radeon 7000 card (I don't know what has changed recently to make it slow down so dramatically); Somewhere between snv_55b and snv_60 (snv_58?) linker options in the Xorg build have changed, which did break

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ken Mays wrote: Just an update: 1. snv_62 (5.11) has X11 7.0.2 (latest: v7.2). No, snv_58 and later have X11R7.2 - there is no such thing as X11R7.0.2. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Spam on board candidates mailing list

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: Is it possible to avoid this? The list should just be made inactive until the next elections and the current members removed from it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

[osol-discuss] GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-04-30 Thread Al Hopper
Heads up: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070430_095211.htm Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris.Org Community Advisory Board (CAB) Member - Apr 2005 OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: B62 fails to upgrade on a Netra

2007-04-30 Thread gr
I commented out the exit statement in the luupgrade script , -bash-3.00$ uname -a SunOS scribble 5.11 snv_62 sun4u sparc sun4u one other thing i noticed the luactivate script did not seem to set the correct boot device , upon setting this manually B62 booted as expected Thanks for your help

[osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Lars Tunkrans
Ginn Chen Wrote: Thanks for making the explanation. My understanding is Xvideo can sve us time for YUV to RGB converting. Currently, by using SSE2, YUV converting is taking 3% CPU time for video playback on Solaris x86. So I guess XVideo can't be a magic bullet here. Meanwhile, Flash video

[osol-discuss] Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-04-30 Thread Doug Scott
After reading this article through, I came to the conclusion that either the writer has no clue, or just needed to get another story out to be paid. Maybe it is both! The article suffers from poor analysis and bad research. Doug Heads up:

[osol-discuss] Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-04-30 Thread Ivan Wang
Hi all, Personally I don't see how a GPL'd OpenSolaris would do any better than current CDDL, not to mention possibility for various linux distribution to gain free and instant access to codes like dtrace and zfs. Two years ago, going GPL might help Solaris then to pick up drivers written for

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2007-04-30 Thread Paul Kasper
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Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ivan Wang wrote: I don't have any power over what license Sun will distribute future OpenSolaris with, but to anyone who has a say on the matter, I hope they all give a real serious think before deciding to go with GPL. I don't think anything has changed really since the thousand e-mail

[osol-discuss] xenix?

2007-04-30 Thread Jim Bolin
does opensolaris allow a xenix drive to be mounted? I have an old xenix drive that people want data off of and it won't boot anymore. I can't find a xenix install set anywhere so am looking for another os that will allow me to mount it. Linux won't do it as far as I can tell. thanx This

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-04-30 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
How about we open license-discuss and direct all such discussions there. -Artem. P.S. And when it's abandoned 5 years from now, we give it to the creative kids, and they'd use it for a super-trendy underground club named like The Sewer, playing robo-electronica and projecting the works of

Re: [osol-discuss] xenix?

2007-04-30 Thread Brian Gupta
I am pretty sure OpenSolaris does not support xenix filesystems, nor am I aware of any plans to do so. Your best bet is to contact SCO, and see if their OpenServer can do what you need. (They bought Xenix from Microsoft) -Brian On 4/30/07, Jim Bolin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-04-30 Thread James Carlson
Artem Kachitchkine writes: How about we open license-discuss and direct all such discussions there. If they don't notice that we beat the subject soundly with a stick just a short while ago, what's to say they'll all direct their discussions to license-discuss? -1 on the proposal, just

Re: [osol-discuss] xenix?

2007-04-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jim Bolin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does opensolaris allow a xenix drive to be mounted? I have an old xenix drive that people want data off of and it won't boot anymore. I can't find a xenix install set anywhere so am looking for another os that will allow me to mount it. Linux won't do it

Re: [osol-discuss] xenix?

2007-04-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/30/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Bolin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does opensolaris allow a xenix drive to be mounted? I have an old xenix drive that people want data off of and it won't boot anymore. I can't find a xenix install set anywhere so am looking for another os

[osol-discuss] Re: [opensolaris-discuss] Upnp server to solaris

2007-04-30 Thread homerun
Hi just found portable libupnp project. maybe this will open doors to build upnp servers to (open)solaris too. project url: http://pupnp.sourceforge.net/ This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-04-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Artem Kachitchkine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about we open license-discuss and direct all such discussions there. -Artem. P.S. And when it's abandoned 5 years from now, we give it to the creative kids, and they'd use it for a super-trendy underground club named like The Sewer,

Re: [osol-discuss] xenix?

2007-04-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Brian Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am pretty sure OpenSolaris does not support xenix filesystems, nor am I aware of any plans to do so. Your best bet is to contact SCO, and see if their OpenServer can do what you need. (They bought Xenix from Microsoft) Openserver did support it but SCO

Re: [osol-discuss] xenix?

2007-04-30 Thread Bonnie Corwin
Some support for Xenix was in Solaris years ago in early 2.x releases. That support eroded over time, and the last vestiges of it were removed about three years ago. Bonnie Dennis Clarke wrote: On 4/30/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Bolin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does

Re: [osol-discuss] xenix?

2007-04-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that the ability was still in there. Somewhere. Perhaps in /usr/ucb somewhere ? If everm this was s5fs, you may try ti find when it has been removed. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL

[osol-discuss] is there any real docs for xorg.conf ?

2007-04-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
I have been looking at http://x.org/ and there is a wiki but no link that says documentation. The current release 7.2.0 says that no documentation exists because of bugs : Documentation Due to bugs in the documentation toolchain, documentation for this release is not available online at the

Re: [osol-discuss] is there any real docs for xorg.conf ?

2007-04-30 Thread Stephen Lau
There's always xorg.conf(4) :) Dennis Clarke wrote: I have been looking at http://x.org/ and there is a wiki but no link that says documentation. The current release 7.2.0 says that no documentation exists because of bugs : Documentation Due to bugs in the documentation toolchain,

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris Express on the new Mx000 series

2007-04-30 Thread Lisa McMahon
Chris Steinke - hello, this is Lisa McMahon with PL Strategies. I've been looking for you. If possible could you email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] My client that you interviewed with is looking for you and I don't have a current number. This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris Express on the new Mx000 series

2007-04-30 Thread Lisa McMahon
Chris Steinke - hello, this is Lisa McMahon with PL Strategies. I've been looking for you. If possible could you email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] My client that you interviewed with is looking for you and I don't have a current number. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] xenix?

2007-04-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/30/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that the ability was still in there. Somewhere. Perhaps in /usr/ucb somewhere ? If everm this was s5fs, you may try ti find when it has been removed. that's it .. yep .. its long gone I

Re: [osol-discuss] is there any real docs for xorg.conf ?

2007-04-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/30/07, Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's always xorg.conf(4) :) bash-3.2$ uname -a SunOS login 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine bash-3.2$ man -s 4 xorg.conf No entry for xorg.conf in section(s) 4 of the manual. bash-3.2$ man xorg.conf No manual

Re: [osol-discuss] is there any real docs for xorg.conf ?

2007-04-30 Thread James Carlson
Dennis Clarke writes: On 4/30/07, Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's always xorg.conf(4) :) bash-3.2$ uname -a SunOS login 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine bash-3.2$ man -s 4 xorg.conf No entry for xorg.conf in section(s) 4 of the manual. bash-3.2$

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Shawn Walker
On 30/04/07, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OSS is in the pipeline and should be in Nevada sometime soon. GStreamer currently only supports SunAudio, but should also support OSS when it becomes available in Nevada. what do you mean? nevada might ship this:

Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Shawn Walker
On 29/04/07, Ignacio Marambio Catán [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OSS is in the pipeline and should be in Nevada sometime soon. GStreamer currently only supports SunAudio, but should also support OSS when it becomes available in Nevada. what do you mean? nevada might ship this:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Shawn Walker
On 30/04/07, Ken Mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. Professional grade MIDI support is suggested. Intentionally left out of OSSv4 initially, 4Front says they will be adding it later. For people in the RME products (i.e. http://www.rme-audio.com) like the Hammerfall DSP 9632 soundcard then we

Re: [osol-discuss] is there any real docs for xorg.conf ?

2007-04-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/30/07, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Clarke writes: On 4/30/07, Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's always xorg.conf(4) :) bash-3.2$ uname -a SunOS login 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine bash-3.2$ man -s 4 xorg.conf No entry for

Re: [osol-discuss] is there any real docs for xorg.conf ?

2007-04-30 Thread James Carlson
Dennis Clarke writes: hmmm .. that may or may not suffice. Probably not. In any case .. thanks for the manpage. I was hoping for an Sun Blueprint book on Xorg but I don't know if that exists yet. :-\ The goal of the Xorg guys is to make hand-hacking of xorg.conf completely unnecessary.

[osol-discuss] where are atomic_read(), atomic_set() APIs?

2007-04-30 Thread Atul Vidwansa
Hi, I was looking for Opensolaris APIs equivalent to atomic_read() and atomic_set() found in Linux. The solaris' asm/atomic.h does not define such APIs. When I looked in the on-nv source, similar macros are defined in

Re: [osol-discuss] is there any real docs for xorg.conf ?

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Dennis Clarke wrote: The docs.sun.com sites takes orders of magnitude longer to give me 18 hits. That is, at least, an improvement in content if not speed. The docs.sun.com site is sooo slow that to open a given page seems to take 60 to 90 secs each. The only hits found were for things like

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-code] where are atomic_read(), atomic_set() APIs?

2007-04-30 Thread Cyril Plisko
On 4/30/07, Atul Vidwansa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was looking for Opensolaris APIs equivalent to atomic_read() and atomic_set() found in Linux. The solaris' asm/atomic.h does not define such APIs. When I looked in the on-nv source, similar macros are defined in

Re: [osol-discuss] is there any real docs for xorg.conf ?

2007-04-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/30/07, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Clarke writes: hmmm .. that may or may not suffice. Probably not. well .. its a good read late at night. In any case .. thanks for the manpage. I was hoping for an Sun Blueprint book on Xorg but I don't know if that exists yet.

Re: [osol-discuss] s/is/are/ there any real docs for xorg.conf ?

2007-04-30 Thread Ian Collins
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: The docs.sun.com sites takes orders of magnitude longer to give me 18 hits. That is, at least, an improvement in content if not speed. The docs.sun.com site is sooo slow that to open a given page seems to take 60 to 90 secs each. The only hits

Re: [osol-discuss] s/is/are/ there any real docs for xorg.conf ?

2007-04-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/30/07, Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: The docs.sun.com sites takes orders of magnitude longer to give me 18 hits. That is, at least, an improvement in content if not speed. The docs.sun.com site is sooo slow that to open a given page

Re: [osol-discuss] xenix?

2007-04-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:31:23PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Jim Bolin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does opensolaris allow a xenix drive to be mounted? I have an old xenix drive that people want data off of and it won't boot anymore. I can't find a xenix install set anywhere so am

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-code] where are atomic_read(), atomic_set() APIs?

2007-04-30 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi, I was looking for Opensolaris APIs equivalent to atomic_read() and atomic_set() found in Linux. The solaris' asm/atomic.h does not define such APIs. When I looked in the on-nv source, similar macros are defined in

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [osol-code] where are atomic_read(), atomic_set() APIs?

2007-04-30 Thread Chris Elving
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If those APIs do what their names suggests, what is the point in having them? Atomic set can hardly be anything other than a normal store nor can Atomic read be much different from an ordinary read. I'd find them useful. For example, Studio 11 with

[osol-discuss] Dell D620, Broadcom NIC and B62 a Losing Combination?

2007-04-30 Thread John Kaitschuck
I have B62 with a Dell Latitude Laptop, model D620 and can not seem to get the Broadcom Ethernet on board interface to work. What I have done... [a] To get B62 to install I had to boot disable-bge=true. Once installed the drivers for bge show up under /dev/bge but are inactive. [b] I have

[osol-discuss] Re: qlc or fp drivers? solaris10

2007-04-30 Thread shay
how do I know what is my Fcode in the fiber channel HBA? I HBA is a Qlogic HBA type QLA2342 dual, and I download and execute the flash-install from the QLOGIC web site http://support.qlogic.com/support/product_resources.asp?id=255 I download the flash file: __Name : QLC FCode(QLA23xx)

[osol-discuss] Re: qlc or fp drivers? solaris10

2007-04-30 Thread shay
I though that I am using qlc, because the model(modinfo) qlc in loaded when the system is up. and also I understand that Only when the HBA is using qlc , the MPxIO can work other driver the MPxIO is not working. And my my server the MPxIO is working OK. so I this the cord use qlc. ? This

[osol-discuss] Re: qlc or fp drivers? solaris10

2007-04-30 Thread shay
what exactly is Fcode? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] is there any real docs for xorg.conf ?

2007-04-30 Thread Matt Sealey
http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.0/doc/html/xorg.conf.5.html That was linked from here; http://wiki.x.org/wiki/UserDocumentation Click 7.0 then at the bottom, Section 5, Files and file formats. More documentation is in the man pages for the individual driver names (i.e. driver tunables) -- Matt

[osol-discuss] Re: qlc or fp drivers? solaris10

2007-04-30 Thread John Brewer
hello I have V240 , solaris10, QLA2342(HBA), connected to AMS500(HDS storage). 1. why I cannot see the Luns on PROM? 2. how I descover luns on the PROM? -- Details : -- ok show-devs . /[EMAIL PROTECTED],70/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1 /[EMAIL

[osol-discuss] Building an opensolaris distribution

2007-04-30 Thread carlos antonio neira bustos
Greetings : I would like to know what software applications and libraries from sun, i cant use for building an opensolaris distribution. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-code] where are atomic_read(), atomic_set() APIs?

2007-04-30 Thread Shawn Walker
On 30/04/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was looking for Opensolaris APIs equivalent to atomic_read() and atomic_set() found in Linux. The solaris' asm/atomic.h does not define such APIs. When I looked in the on-nv source, similar macros are defined in

[osol-discuss] Re: Dell D620, Broadcom NIC and B62 a Losing Combination?

2007-04-30 Thread John Brewer
On the old Solaris 9, the files that enabled the network was striate forward. /etc/hostname.interfaceX in my case was hostname.bge0. /etc/hostname.interfaceX /etc/hosts - (linked to) /etc/inet/hosts /etc/nodename /etc/defaultrouter /etc/netmasks other wise this will work. 1. Check modinfo and

[osol-discuss] Re: xenix?

2007-04-30 Thread John Brewer
does opensolaris allow a xenix drive to be mounted? I have an old xenix drive that people want data off of and it won't boot anymore. I can't find a xenix install set anywhere so am looking for another os that will allow me to mount it. Linux won't do it as far as I can tell. thanx If you

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
MIDI was purposefully left out from the initial OSSv4 release. http://4front-tech.com/hannublog/?p=6 Right. I didn't doubt that it was in the pipeline, but since Murphy loves to mess up plans, I'll skip hoping or expecting in favor of eventually having (or not). I noticed on their site

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Sensor Abstraction Layer for the Solaris Fault Manager

2007-04-30 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Cindi. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, cindi wrote: The Project This project proposes extensions to the fault management architecture (FMA) to support a sensor abstraction layer for the collection and analysis of sensor based

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-04-30 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
--- Ivan Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Personally I don't see how a GPL'd OpenSolaris would do any better than current CDDL, not to mention possibility for various linux distribution to gain free and instant access to codes like dtrace and zfs. GPL won't help Solaris too much

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: xenix?

2007-04-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/30/07, John Brewer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does opensolaris allow a xenix drive to be mounted? I have an old xenix drive that people want data off of and it won't boot anymore. I can't find a xenix install set anywhere so am looking for another os that will allow me to mount it. Linux

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Shawn Walker
On 30/04/07, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MIDI was purposefully left out from the initial OSSv4 release. http://4front-tech.com/hannublog/?p=6 Right. I didn't doubt that it was in the pipeline, but since Murphy loves to mess up plans, I'll skip hoping or expecting in favor

Re: [osol-discuss] xenix?

2007-04-30 Thread Hugh McIntyre
Dennis Clarke wrote: On 4/30/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If everm this was s5fs, you may try ti find when it has been removed. that's it .. yep .. its long gone I think. Might still be in Solaris 2.5.1 somewhere and I do have that here

Re: [osol-discuss] xenix?

2007-04-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/1/07, Hugh McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: On 4/30/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If everm this was s5fs, you may try ti find when it has been removed. that's it .. yep .. its long gone I think. Might still be

Re: [osol-discuss] xenix?

2007-04-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/1/07, Hugh McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: On 4/30/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If everm this was s5fs, you may try ti find when it has been removed. that's it .. yep .. its long gone I think. Might still be

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: xenix?

2007-04-30 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
I have Solaris 2.5.1 for x86 here but I don't know how that will help. There may be a binary in there that supports the old UNIX format .. r not. I doubt it. They would have s5fs (of which I'm sure there were lots of variations among manufacturers) with Sun slicing of the Solaris