[osol-discuss] Porting a kernel module from Solaris SPARC platform to Solaris X86 platform

2007-12-13 Thread Vamsee Priya
Hi I am trying to port a kernel module (which acts as a layer between VFS and UFS) from Solaris sparc platform to Solaris x86 platform. I am facing many kernel panics happening at different places. Some times things work fine without panics. This confirms me that there is no problem with the

[osol-discuss] Is there support for Google Talk (open protocol) or Skype (propietry)?

2007-12-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Last time I looked there was no Skype for Solaris. I just looked for a Google Talk client, but there is not one for Solaris either http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html I've tried both Skype and Google Talk and have found Google Talk the more relieable of the two so would be interested

[osol-discuss] Porting efforts on Solaris 10 from SPARC to Solaris/x86

2007-12-13 Thread jeff Gray
I'm reading a white paper published by Sun regarding the porting efforts from SPARC to x86. I summarized as below but has questions inlined. Easy part (1) If the application is in Java language, then it's non-port. (2) For driver code, if it uses standard DDI/DDK kernel interface, it's just

Re: [osol-discuss] Porting a kernel module from Solaris SPARC platform to Solaris X86 pla

2007-12-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I am trying to port a kernel module (which acts as a layer between VFS and UFS) from Solaris sparc platform to Solaris x86 platform. I am facing many kernel panics happening at different places. Some times things work fine without panics. This confirms me that there is no problem with

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there support for Google Talk (open protocol) or Skype (propietry)?

2007-12-13 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 12/13/07, Dr. David Kirkby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last time I looked there was no Skype for Solaris. I just looked for a Google Talk client, but there is not one for Solaris either http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html Google talk uses the jabber protocol It is available via

Re: [osol-discuss] Porting efforts on Solaris 10 from SPARC to Solaris/x86

2007-12-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
div id=jive-html-wrapper-div div id=mb_0 divI'm reading a white paper published by Sun regarding the porting efforts from SPARC to x86. Where is the white paper? I would be interested in passing it to Mathworks to try to encourage them to port MATLAB from SPARC to x86. This message

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there support for Google Talk (open protocol) or Skype (propietry)?

2007-12-13 Thread Tirthankar
You can use GAIM to log into gtalk. Thanks, Tirthankar This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Finding external USB disks

2007-12-13 Thread Tirthankar
I'm looking to check for the presence of various devices in a script run in cron, so the device may not have been connected *recently*. You can use rmformat and store the o/p in a file Next time you run rmformat, diff it with the old o/p stored in the file. If there are any differences, then

[osol-discuss] xscreensaver problem

2007-12-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Hi, I did just set up an amd64 (Intel Core2 Quad CPU) PC with snv_77. It is the first OpenSolaris machine I set up that uses NFS mounted home directories. It seems that as a result, I get no automatic screensaver with Gnome. If I try to start xscreensaver manually, I get: Xlib:

Re: [osol-discuss] Porting a kernel module from Solaris SPARC platform to Solaris X86 platform

2007-12-13 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Vamsee Priya wrote: Hi I am trying to port a kernel module (which acts as a layer between VFS and UFS) from Solaris sparc platform to Solaris x86 platform. Interesting - which module/product is that ? I am facing many kernel panics happening at different places.

Re: [osol-discuss] Does Solaris has similar Linux command mount -o

2007-12-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chandan Maddanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #!/usr/bin/bash mkdir $2 lofiadm -a $1 /dev/lofi/1 mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 $2 echo -e \n\t I have mounted $1 under the folder $2\n\n Just a note for the 'hsfs' case: I intend to add a sector offset option to the hsfs mount code. I added

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there support for Google Talk (open protocol) or Skype (propietry)?

2007-12-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
You can use GAIM to log into gtalk. Thanks, Tirthankar What do I select as the server - the default is jabber.org, but I assume I will need to change that to a Google one? Does this support VIOP or just instant messaging? It looks like the later, which is no use to me. Dave This

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there support for Google Talk (open protocol) or Skype (propietry)

2007-12-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Google talk uses the jabber protocol It is available via Pidgin on solaris. Anil ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Thank you. I will give that a try. Assuming it works OK for me, I will let Google know, as

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there support for Google Talk (open protocol) or Skype (propietry)?

2007-12-13 Thread Robin Bowes
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: You can use GAIM to log into gtalk. Thanks, Tirthankar What do I select as the server - the default is jabber.org, but I assume I will need to change that to a Google one? server is talk.google.com Does this support VIOP or just instant messaging? It looks

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there support for Google Talk (open protocol) or Skype (propietry)?

2007-12-13 Thread Tirthankar
Choose the gtalk option. The server is talk.google.com The version I have does not have any voice chat option. It has plain text chat. Thanks, Tirthankar This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there support for Google Talk (open protocol) or Skype (propietry)?

2007-12-13 Thread Harry Lu
Dr. David Kirkby : You can use GAIM to log into gtalk. Thanks, Tirthankar What do I select as the server - the default is jabber.org, but I assume I will need to change that to a Google one? Does this support VIOP or just instant messaging? It looks like the later, which is no

Re: [osol-discuss] Finding external USB disks

2007-12-13 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Tirthankar wrote: I'm looking to check for the presence of various devices in a script run in cron, so the device may not have been connected *recently*. You can use rmformat and store the o/p in a file Next time you run rmformat, diff it with the old o/p stored in the file. If

Re: [osol-discuss] Porting efforts on Solaris 10 from SPARC to Solaris/x86

2007-12-13 Thread James Carlson
jeff Gray writes: (2) For driver code, if it uses standard DDI/DDK kernel interface, it's just recompile, no need to change. Defore Sun open source the code 2+ years ago, is it likely to develop such driver using non-standard kernel interface for a driver? Yes, such non-Sun-developed code

[osol-discuss] wanted: way to sync from openboot without crash dump

2007-12-13 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Sometimes a large system, despite precautions (or in the absence of them), runs out of resources (VM, mainly) to the degree that no useful progress is being made: that is, one can't even log in and kill the hogging processes. (At least on SPARC) the usual workaround would be to break to the boot

Re: [osol-discuss] wanted: way to sync from openboot without crash dump

2007-12-13 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Sometimes a large system, despite precautions (or in the absence of them), runs out of resources (VM, mainly) to the degree that no useful progress is being made: that is, one can't even log in and kill the hogging processes. (At least on

Re: [osol-discuss] wanted: way to sync from openboot without crash dump

2007-12-13 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Sometimes a large system, despite precautions (or in the absence of them), runs out of resources (VM, mainly) to the degree that no useful progress is being made: that is, one can't even log in and kill the hogging processes. (At least on

Re: [osol-discuss] wanted: way to sync from openboot without crash dump

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew C. Henle
Once the crash dump starts getting written to disk, just hit stop-A again and boot. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop testing OpenSolaris (Indiana) on ODM laptops

2007-12-13 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Well, the 8G model almost filled the gap for me. BTW, do you know what ind of Chinese input method does the EeePC supports? I use a pen tablet to enter Chinese text, and as this is only available and run on Windows, that is the only reason I still have a Windows partition in my

Re: [osol-discuss] Finding external USB disks

2007-12-13 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
What are the approaches to finding what external USB disks are currently connected? What's wrong with $ iostat -En ? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there support for Google Talk (open protocol) or Skype (propietry)

2007-12-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Google Talk is instant messaging. It's also VIOP - I've used it quite a bit, rather than Skype but only on Windows This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] Finding external USB disks

2007-12-13 Thread Tim Foster
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 21:35 -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: What are the approaches to finding what external USB disks are currently connected? Would rmformat -l or eject -l fit the bill ? The external USB backup disks in question have ZFS filesystems on them, which may make a difference

Re: [osol-discuss] PHP with Apache in build 77

2007-12-13 Thread Stephen Hahn
* UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-11 20:59]: /usr/php5/5.2.4/lib/libphp5-5.2.4.so over to /usr/apache/libexec/libphp5.so. Why in blue blazes did they compile it for /usr/php5/? I mean, PHP doesn't clash with anything Solaris delivers... they could have stuck him directly into

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop testing OpenSolaris (Indiana) on ODM laptops

2007-12-13 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Anyway, as I mentioned in a separate thread, the best market for Solaris is DTR (desktop replacement), and we, collectively speaking, will do the world a lot of good if we can make a ubiquitous Solaris DTP world a reality. Need be qualified. I am referring to S10u4. All things considered,

Re: [osol-discuss] Finding external USB disks

2007-12-13 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: What are the approaches to finding what external USB disks are currently connected? What's wrong with $ iostat -En ? There, I learned another thing. That's always good. I don't immediately grasp how it's a good solution to my problem, though. It

Re: [osol-discuss] Porting efforts on Solaris 10 from SPARC to Solaris/x86

2007-12-13 Thread jeff Gray
You can just google Porting Guidelines For Solaris Operating System, x86 Platform Edition I also see lots of tools from Sun helping the migration, but haven't had any experience on them. On 12/13/07, Dr. David Kirkby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: div id=jive-html-wrapper-div div id=mb_0 divI'm

[osol-discuss] Request place project virt-manager to OpenSolaris

2007-12-13 Thread Henry Zhang
Hi there, Now we, Solaris JDS team, is working on making virt-manager work at Solaris, and would like to place it to OpenSolaris, so that users can download and play with it. Please approve this application. Below is the project introduction: The Virtual Machine Manager application (virt-manager

Re: [osol-discuss] Porting efforts on Solaris 10 from SPARC to Solaris/x86

2007-12-13 Thread Ken Mays
Dr David Kirby said: I'm reading a white paper published by Sun regarding the porting efforts from SPARC to x86. Where is the white paper? I would be interested in passing it to Mathworks to try to encourage them to port MATLAB from SPARC to x86. The Mathworks products I've researched are

Re: [osol-discuss] wanted: way to sync from openboot without crash dump

2007-12-13 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Sometimes a large system, despite precautions (or in the absence of them), runs out of resources (VM, mainly) to the degree that no useful progress is being made: that is, one can't even log in and kill the hogging processes. (At

Re: [osol-discuss] wanted: way to sync from openboot without crash dump

2007-12-13 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Once the crash dump starts getting written to disk, just hit stop-A again and boot. That would be all I need if it (or a break on serial or SC/RSC) would consistently do the trick; however, a lot of stuff won't do that anymore. ISTR e.g. an old SPARC 20 would do it, but I don't think my Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Porting efforts on Solaris 10 from SPARC to Solaris/x86

2007-12-13 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] (4) Platform dependent code like #ifdef SPARC code. What are the typical example of platform (SPARC vs. x86) dependent code? Plenty. #ifdef SPARC is inappropriate as a way to identify Solaris, use it only if you really are doing something essentially SPARC-specific. Many people think

Re: [osol-discuss] Request place project virt-manager to OpenSolaris

2007-12-13 Thread Glynn Foster
Henry Zhang wrote: Now we, Solaris JDS team, is working on making virt-manager work at Solaris, and would like to place it to OpenSolaris, so that users can download and play with it. Please approve this application. [snip] And it's the first time for me to place a project into

[osol-discuss] [Fwd: [osol-announce] OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards -- List and Wiki]

2007-12-13 Thread Jim Grisanzio
fyi: Original Message Subject: [osol-announce] OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards -- List andWiki Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:55:48 +0900 From: Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The list and wiki for the