[osol-discuss] Suspend to RAM!!!

2008-10-03 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
The one big deterrent discouraging laptop users to use OpenSolaris is the lack of the suspend-to-ram feature. CORRECTION! THIS STATEMENT IS NO LONGER TRUE! SUSPEND-TO-RAM WORKS ON MY NOTEBOOK AS OF BUILD 98! Ed.: I am doing this on an HP dv6928us notebook which is an Intel core2duo

[osol-discuss] Suspend to RAM!!!

2008-10-03 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
The one big deterrent discouraging laptop users to use OpenSolaris is the lack of the suspend-to-ram feature. CORRECTION! THIS STATEMENT IS NO LONGER TRUE! SUSPEND-TO-RAM WORKS ON MY NOTEBOOK AS OF BUILD 98! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Interesting = MAC addr reversing manually solved the problem !!

2008-10-03 Thread Dave Uhring
IIRC the mac address reversal bug was fixed long ago. Not! The bug exists in osol b98 still. A fixed version would not require the ifconfig ether hack. Right. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Nvidia 780a drivers

2008-10-03 Thread Darren
Is there any movement on Nvidia 780a drivers -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-03 Thread James Carlson
Bill Shannon writes: This was a problem 15 years ago when I left the OS group and I see it's still a problem today. You OS guys need to understand that most people experience desktop systems through the GUI. If the GUI for *your* feature doesn't work, it's the same as your feature not

[osol-discuss] New to Unix(Solaris)

2008-10-03 Thread Jije
Hi all, I am new here, I would like to learn the Unix commands , and for this i am planning to install opensolaris through Virtualbox in my Laptop. I am wondering whether all the Unix commands work in open solaris. Thanks in advance -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-03 Thread James Carlson
Bill Shannon writes: Ghee Teo wrote: The new network admin GUI is all integrated to work to its full functionality in snv 100 as far as I heard. What exactly does that mean? The perfectly functional version in older releases was replaced with a new partially functional version? No.

Re: [osol-discuss] PXE GRUB menu.lst

2008-10-03 Thread Alex
Please post your dhcpd.conf file if you're using ISC DHCP. Any included config files as well, e.g. if you use an include stanza in your dhcpd.conf. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] PXE GRUB menu.lst

2008-10-03 Thread Alex
I meant that to be for Alain... :P -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Replace Windows Active Directory server with Solaris 10 and JES?

2008-10-03 Thread Euan Thoms
I'm just wondering if it's possible to replace a windows 2003 server that is only used to provide network file access (AD file sharing based on user login) with a Solaris 10 server running Java Enterprise System (JES). I will be purchasing a Solaris 10 server for hosting Java Communications

Re: [osol-discuss] New to Unix(Solaris)

2008-10-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
Hi all, I am new here, I would like to learn the Unix commands , and for this i am planning to install opensolaris through Virtualbox in my Laptop. I am wondering whether all the Unix commands work in open solaris. They all work. At least they should all work in the latest OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] New to Unix(Solaris)

2008-10-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
Hi all, I am new here, I would like to learn the Unix commands , and for this i am planning to install opensolaris through Virtualbox in my Laptop. I am wondering whether all the Unix commands work in open solaris. They all work. CORRECTION ... I should have looked first. There are no

Re: [osol-discuss] Replace Windows Active Directory server with Solaris 10 and JES?

2008-10-03 Thread Dieter Kluenter
Euan Thoms [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm just wondering if it's possible to replace a windows 2003 server that is only used to provide network file access (AD file sharing based on user login) with a Solaris 10 server running Java Enterprise System (JES). I will be purchasing a Solaris 10

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-03 Thread Bill Shannon
James Carlson wrote: Is there still a problem here in the networking component itself (other than the GUI)? If so, I'd like to help solve it. No, after configuring it all by hand, networking is working fine. The question is, why didn't the GUI find the interface? Is it something about this

Re: [osol-discuss] New to Unix(Solaris)

2008-10-03 Thread James Carlson
Dennis Clarke writes: There are no commands to be found in /usr/xpg6/bin because those binaries simply don't exist after installation in OpenSolaris snv_98 : $ uname -a SunOS aequitas 5.11 snv_98 i86pc i386 i86pc They seem to come from pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... do you have that installed?

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-03 Thread Bill Shannon
James Carlson wrote: I am *so* sorry I upgrade to snv_98... I don't see how that relates to the previous poster's note about snv_100. I had snv_86 working quite well on two machines and I was very happy with it. Since upgrading those machines and installing snv_98 on another machine (the

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris equivalents for GNU packages

2008-10-03 Thread Brian Utterback
James Carlson wrote: GPL other executables) must go in a different path to protect delicate sensibilities, and the ARC members just as strongly disagree that the file system hierarchy ought to be used to document one company's licensing concerns. delicate sensibilities? Having your

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris equivalents for GNU packages

2008-10-03 Thread James Carlson
Brian Utterback writes: GPL other executables) must go in a different path to protect delicate sensibilities, and the ARC members just as strongly disagree that the file system hierarchy ought to be used to document one company's licensing concerns. delicate sensibilities? Having your

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-03 Thread James Carlson
Bill Shannon writes: James Carlson wrote: Is there still a problem here in the networking component itself (other than the GUI)? If so, I'd like to help solve it. No, after configuring it all by hand, networking is working fine. The question is, why didn't the GUI find the interface? Is

Re: [osol-discuss] New to Unix(Solaris)

2008-10-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dennis Clarke writes: There are no commands to be found in /usr/xpg6/bin because those binaries simply don't exist after installation in OpenSolaris snv_98 : $ uname -a SunOS aequitas 5.11 snv_98 i86pc i386 i86pc They seem to come from pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... do you have that

Re: [osol-discuss] ps and column limit (how to get process' full command line)

2008-10-03 Thread Redmar van Leeuwaarden
Besides the pargs command you can also use the UCB PS command. P.e. /usr/ucb/ps wwaxx [pid] -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris equivalents for GNU packages

2008-10-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The issue (again, as I understand it) is that since a GPLv2 library is magically different, it has to go in a different path so that people are horribly inconvenienced if they ever want to use it. This is a discussion you should hold back for about a

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Input Method Project

2008-10-03 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
There is absolutely no chance that SCIM will be considered for the upcoming 2008.11 LiveCD. There is just not enough time to go through the necessary QA process. Also, if an exception were made (and for something of such significant magnitude), who is going to close the flood gate that may

Re: [osol-discuss] ps and column limit (how to get process' full command line)

2008-10-03 Thread andrew
The reason ps won't give you the full command line for long command lines is that it is limited by what procfs is configured to make available. This configuration is done at compile time. Cheers Andrew. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] No entry for BE snv_100 in GRUB menu

2008-10-03 Thread Ron Halstead
In opensolaris snv_98 and snv_99, lucreate does not put an entry for the new BE in menu.lst. lucreate -c snv_99 -n snv_100 (I'm optimistic). This happened in 98 when I wanted to Live Upgrade to 99. I had to do a fresh install. I tried it in 99 and the same problem. I hope this gets fixed as I

Re: [osol-discuss] No entry for BE snv_100 in GRUB menu

2008-10-03 Thread Ian Collins
Ron Halstead wrote: In opensolaris snv_98 and snv_99, lucreate does not put an entry for the new BE in menu.lst. What about luactivate? Ian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Input Method Project

2008-10-03 Thread Yong Sun
Hi, Wayne, Thanks for your appreciation! IIIMF also supports using different input methods for different input contexts. You could configure this behavior with iiim-properties, i.e., by disabling the The language is applied to all applications option in General tab. Regards, W. Wayne Liauh

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Input Method Project

2008-10-03 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Hi, Wayne, Thanks for your appreciation! IIIMF also supports using different input methods for different input contexts. You could configure this behavior with iiim-properties, i.e., by disabling the The language is applied to all applications option in General tab. Regards, Hi

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Input Method Project

2008-10-03 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
BTW, while you are here :-) , could you look into this little but very annoying bug, in that the preferences in Chewing won't stick?For example, every time I want to use the chewing method, I need to activate the preference entry then go to the keyboard option to select the Hanyupinyin

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-03 Thread Bill Shannon
James Carlson wrote: Looking through the truss output on /usr/bin/network-admin, it appears that it invokes '/usr/sbin/dladm show-link -p'. I think that means it may have been broken by the integration of CR 6722523 in snv_96. I don't know why that hasn't been addressed in GNOME. (The