Re: [osol-discuss] Boot archives

2008-05-15 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 22:28:18 andrew wrote: You shouldn't really be cutting it that fine with UPS shutdown. The boot archive is a compressed version of Solaris including all of the drivers it need to boot the kernel on your machine. Once the kernel is booted, it can then access the

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot archives

2008-05-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Nico Sabbi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not exactly: boot-archive tends to be very big , while I've never seen initrd images larger than 4 or 5 MB. Is it possible to shrink boot_archive much much smaller ? Linux is a static OS while Solaris is fully dynamic loaded since ~ 1992. People on Linux

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot archives

2008-05-15 Thread Vincent Boisard
Thanks for the responses, is there a document describing the conditions leading to a boot archive update? Or should I use the -n flag to discover them (or read the source code) ? Thanks, Vincent This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] smart array and opensolaris

2008-05-15 Thread Claus Guttesen
Rename the sol10 directory on the driver disk to sol11 and it should work. Cheers Andrew. Works like a charm! Thank you. :-) -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-05-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2008, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Mike DeMarco wrote: Took /opt/csw/lib out of my LD_LIBRARY_PATH and it now works. Just one of the many reasons you should never have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set in your environment, where it will break all

Re: [osol-discuss] sigmatel STAC9271D

2008-05-15 Thread minskey guo
bijoy 写道: hi.., I have onboard (Intel DP35DP) Audio controller with Sigmatel STAC9271D codec. But sound is not working in my machine. Driver_aliases has hdaudio driver assaigned to PCI 8086, 293e. It also shows audiohd driver, and couple of other audios like audioens, etc... /Devices has

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot archives

2008-05-15 Thread Jürgen Keil
I have been playing with opensolaris nevada x86 for some time and want to build a home file server with it (for starters...). Sometimes at shutdown, the boot archives are being recreated (takes 2 to 3 minutes). Which opensolaris release are you using? What kind of system is that (cpu?,

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot archives

2008-05-15 Thread Jürgen Keil
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 22:28:18 andrew wrote: boot-archive tends to be very big , while I've never seen initrd images larger than 4 or 5 MB. Is it possible to shrink boot_archive much much smaller ? With recent opensolaris releases, there are two boot_archive files, one for 32-bit kernel

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot archives

2008-05-15 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Thursday 15 May 2008 11:13:21 you wrote: Nico Sabbi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not exactly: boot-archive tends to be very big , while I've never seen initrd images larger than 4 or 5 MB. Is it possible to shrink boot_archive much much smaller ? Linux is a static OS while Solaris is

Re: [osol-discuss] Dual Booting with Vista breaks hibernation in Vista

2008-05-15 Thread Jean-Paul Rivet
Does this technique of using the Neogrub bootloader and EasyBCD from Vista work with OpenSolaris May release (Indiana)? It's not something I've tried. I really would of liked to have both Indiana and Nevada installed and multi-booting with Vista but both the respective Solaris installers

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2008-05-15 Thread Allan Black
[ I realise this is an old thread, but it seems to reawaken about once a year anyway :-) ] There may just may be some light at the end of the tunnel. Have a look at http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2008/03/feature_requests_for_adobe_rea.html and check out point 3. This blog entry is

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-05-15 Thread Mike DeMarco
Took /opt/csw/lib out of my LD_LIBRARY_PATH and it now works. Hi, Why would you need /opt/csw/lib in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH If the csw packages are built correctly then you do not need it set :-) I have never set it for csw. If all your packages are built correctly then you don't need

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-05-15 Thread Mike DeMarco
New problem: I have been able to start VirtualBox Still does not work from the link /usr/bin/VirtualBox - /opt/VirtualBox/VBox Usage: basename string [ suffix ] Unknown application - If I change the link to /usr/bin/VirtualBox - /opt/VirtualBox/VirtualBox This works Problem

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot archives

2008-05-15 Thread Vincent Boisard
I am using for testing a vmware VM with 512MB of RAM on a P4 2.8GHz with snv_77 for now (I have a slow internet connection, I cannot easily download a DVD iso) I know that tis process would be faster on a real machine. I'll try to download the latest SXCE ... When you hotplugging devices

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-05-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mike DeMarco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem during install. /platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/vboxdrv /platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/vboxdrv.conf [ verifying class none ] Modifying /etc/devlink.tab [ verifying class sed ] ## Executing postinstall script. Sun xVM VirtualBox - postinstall script

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-05-15 Thread James Carlson
Mike DeMarco writes: xine, vlc, ogle to name three will not run without somehow knowing about /opt/csw/lib. If you need LD_LIBRARY_PATH for *anything*, then file a bug. The person who compiled and linked that application didn't do it right. He used -L but forgot to use -R. For what it's

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-05-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike DeMarco writes: xine, vlc, ogle to name three will not run without somehow knowing about /opt/csw/lib. If you need LD_LIBRARY_PATH for *anything*, then file a bug. The person who compiled and linked that application didn't do it right. He

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-05-15 Thread Mike DeMarco
New problem: I have been able to start VirtualBox Still does not work from the link /usr/bin/VirtualBox - /opt/VirtualBox/VBox Usage: basename string [ suffix ] Unknown application - If I change the link to /usr/bin/VirtualBox - /opt/VirtualBox/VirtualBox This works Problem

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot archives

2008-05-15 Thread Jürgen Keil
I am using for testing a vmware VM with 512MB of RAM on a P4 2.8GHz with snv_77 for now (I have a slow internet connection, I cannot easily download a DVD iso) I know that tis process would be faster on a real machine. I didn't measure how much the fix for 6626043 has improved the time

[osol-discuss] ethernet driver for Broadcom netlink Gigabit Ethernet

2008-05-15 Thread prabit mishra
Can you please suggest where I would be able to find a Ethernet driver for Broadcom netlink Gigabit Ethernet Card?? -- Prabit Mishra, SUN Campus Ambassador, NIT Rourkela. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ethernet driver for Broadcom netlink Gigabit Ethernet

2008-05-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:31 AM, prabit mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you please suggest where I would be able to find a Ethernet driver for Broadcom netlink Gigabit Ethernet Card?? On this page:

Re: [osol-discuss] ethernet driver for Broadcom netlink Gigabit Ethernet

2008-05-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:31 AM, prabit mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you please suggest where I would be able to find a Ethernet driver for Broadcom netlink Gigabit Ethernet Card?? On this page:

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot archives

2008-05-15 Thread Vincent Boisard
Thanks, Vincent This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Help required URGENT!

2008-05-15 Thread James Carlson
Frederick writes: I'm more into core networking and almost nothing of server support which is why I won't be in a position to provide relevant info. Given that this is a networking question, I'd suggest posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Are you using OpenSolaris, or is this S10 or some other

Re: [osol-discuss] ethernet driver for Broadcom netlink Gigabit Ethernet

2008-05-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:40 AM, prabit mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry but the link says they dont offer links for sun solaris Which is weird, because they do: http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/driver-sla.php?driver=570x-Solaris -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to

Re: [osol-discuss] failed on building current opensolaris

2008-05-15 Thread Aubrey Li
2008/5/15 wy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All: It seems my OpenSolaris nightly failed with SS11, guided by this link: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/devref_toc/devref_1/#1_3_3_building_on_from_source I'm not quite sure i should change whether the tool or Makefile, or can anybody

[osol-discuss] Device Detection Tool 2.1 is opensource

2008-05-15 Thread Li Ye
Hi All, Along with the release of Device Detection Tool 2.1, the source code of this project is also published on its open source project web page (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ddtool/ddtool-2.1-src.tar.gz). What's new of Device Detection Tool 2.1 [1] It supports device detection on

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS on SXCE?

2008-05-15 Thread Aubrey Li
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Aubrey Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as ON does not