Re: [osol-discuss] Old(ish) Sparc Support

2009-10-31 Thread Charles Monett
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org wrote: Charles Monett wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org wrote: Jensen Lee wrote: At least they should be doing the right thing to open the source code of every hardware

Re: [osol-discuss] Need a How-to on installing a VM on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i38

2009-10-31 Thread Ramon F. McDougall
John Martin wrote: Ramon F. McDougall wrote: Greetings to All. Can someone help me out here. I'm a new user to Solaris evaluating an Ultra 27 workstation. I would like be able to install other operating systems on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i386. I can't find the correct

[osol-discuss] Driver trouble on Nevada...

2009-10-31 Thread Kyle McDonald
Hi, I have several types of IBM BladeCenter blades (mostly HS20 and LS20.) The BladeCenter manages these blades through a BMC with IPMI, and provides access to the serial console (ttyb) of the blades through the Serial Over LAN (SOL) feature of the BMC. When I user Solaris10 on these

Re: [osol-discuss] Need a How-to on installing a VM on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i38

2009-10-31 Thread Che Kristo
Type: # man pkg in a terminal If you get a man page for the image packaging system then you are running OpenSolaris, if you get No manual entry for pkg that means you are running Solaris On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 06:57, Ramon F. McDougall r...@cyberjet.net wrote: John Martin wrote: Ramon F.

Re: [osol-discuss] Need a How-to on installing a VM on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i38

2009-10-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ramon F. McDougall wrote: John Martin wrote: Ramon F. McDougall wrote: Can someone help me out here. I'm a new user to Solaris evaluating an Ultra 27 workstation. I would like be able to install other operating systems on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i386. I can't find the correct

[osol-discuss] Unexpected Trap on AMD machines

2009-10-31 Thread Rik Scarborough
I had hoped that the fix for bug 6844241 ( http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;jsessionid=86961192811440e7e2cb9c309244?bug_id=6844241) would fix the reboot problem I've been having on my Gateway laptop anytime I try to boot from any version greater than snv_111b. But after

[osol-discuss] SUNWipkg constraints??

2009-10-31 Thread Tim Cook
I'm attempting to upgrade from b118 to b125, but it refuses to allow me to upgrade SUNWipkg first. What the heck am I missing? Either I'm forgetting what I've done in the past, or I've never had this issue before. pfexec pkg install sunwi...@0.5.11-0.125 Creating Plan -

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWipkg constraints??

2009-10-31 Thread Shawn Walker
Tim Cook wrote: I'm attempting to upgrade from b118 to b125, but it refuses to allow me to upgrade SUNWipkg first. What the heck am I missing? Either I'm forgetting what I've done in the past, or I've never had this issue before. pfexec pkg install sunwi...@0.5.11-0.125 Creating Plan -

[osol-discuss] ATI Radeon HD 5870/5850/5770/5750 support

2009-10-31 Thread ken mays
Hello, The actual Xorg RadeonHD 2D driver support for the ATI Radeon HD 5870/5850/5770/5750 graphic cards is not implemented yet. I usually test ATI graphic boards with the latest OpenSolaris distros and have had success in 2D support for the latest ATI graphic cards. I've had success in 2D