[osol-discuss] gnome-keyboard-applet

2009-11-02 Thread Alexander
Hello. Can someone clarify the situation with PSARC/2009/558 - gnome keyboard switcher re-integration? Will gnome keyboard applet appear in OpenSolaris 10.03 ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-

[osol-discuss] heads up, README.opensolaris is 0 bytes

2009-11-02 Thread Dennis Clarke
just noticed this $ wget http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/README.opensolaris --2009-11-03 07:11:42-- http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/README.opensolaris Resolving dlc.sun.com (dlc.sun.com)... 72.5.124.114 Connecting to dlc.sun.com (dlc.sun.com)|72.5.124.114|:80... connecte

Re: [osol-discuss] useradd problem

2009-11-02 Thread Steven Acres
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Will wrote: > I'm trying to create a user by, > #useradd -u amandabackup -g disk -d /var/lib/amanda -c "Amanda Backup" -m > amanda > > but i'm getting, > ux: userid: error: amandabackup is not a valid user id. choose another. > -- > This message posted from opensol

Re: [osol-discuss] Winkeys keyboard layout for iim

2009-11-02 Thread Alexander
I've just tried ibus... Is it going to be better? All Russian keytables are spoiled. The most adequate are phonetic and kbd, but 1) keys with point, semicolon and other punctuation signs are not redefined; 2) there is still no winkeys code page... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] useradd problem

2009-11-02 Thread Will
I'm trying to create a user by, #useradd -u amandabackup -g disk -d /var/lib/amanda -c "Amanda Backup" -m amanda but i'm getting, ux: userid: error: amandabackup is not a valid user id. choose another. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ op

[osol-discuss] ntpd v4 IPS pkg?

2009-11-02 Thread Andre Lue
Is there a ntpd v4 IPS pkg? Tried a couple of different search techniques but came up blank? Only v3? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] scp no-clobber option??

2009-11-02 Thread Euan Thoms
Is there an option for no-clobber (does not overwrite existing files) in the command scp? "man scp" doesn' t reveal anything. I got one hit in google which indicated that there was but perhaps that was the GNU version of scp. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[osol-discuss] Fluendo DVD player for OpenSolaris to release this week

2009-11-02 Thread Che Kristo
Just a brief heads up that Fluendo will be releasing the DVD Player for OpenSolaris at *some stage this week*. You can see some screenshots at my blog: http://myunix.org/2009/11/03/fluendo-dvd-player-for-opensolaris-arriving-very-very-soon/ Thanks to the guys at Fluendo for the hard work. Che Kr

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Tecra M10 laptop hangs on shutdown & reboot

2009-11-02 Thread John Martin
Christopher Baumbauer wrote: As a followup, if you have virtualization extensions enabled in the bios, try disabling it, and then try it again. I filed 6870290 where S3 S/R fails on the M10 when hardware virtualization is enabled in the SBIOS but I didn't experience a regular showdown or reboot

Re: [osol-discuss] any work on bug ID 6807184

2009-11-02 Thread John Martin
M D wrote: Hmm: What happened to all the information that was in this thread? While the information was useful, it still doesn't point to a smoking gun or provide a reproducible test case on any of the rge equipment I own (ASUS Z92T notebook or eVGA X58 SLI motherboard). I've done transfer

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-02 Thread John Martin
Jensen Lee wrote: And by the way, due to this mess with OpenSolaris, I do not think I will ever buy Sun hardware in the future. But most importantly, being a professional, I will refrein from advising anyone to buy Sun hardware. I used to recommend it as an investment ... what a shame! No wonder

Re: [osol-discuss] ldom console issue

2009-11-02 Thread M D
Maybe you can use screen on the domain controller and telnet or ssh into your console from there. you will be able to disconnect out and next time you come back in run screen -r -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailin

Re: [osol-discuss] any work on bug ID 6807184

2009-11-02 Thread M D
> Mike DeMarco wrote: > > Please let me know if I can be of any more help. > The rge interface is unstable on my new laptop and I > have limited options at this point. > What happened to the suggestion I made on May 15? > I don't see a reply. > > # echo "msi_enable=0;" >> /kernel/drv/rge.conf >

Re: [osol-discuss] any work on bug ID 6807184

2009-11-02 Thread M D
Hmm: What happened to all the information that was in this thread? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] any work on bug ID 6807184

2009-11-02 Thread M D
Let me know if you need anything, testing, info, such Thanks -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Tecra M10 laptop hangs on shutdown & reboot

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Steinberg
I'll try that and see how it goes. -- Alan Christopher Baumbauer wrote: As a followup, if you have virtualization extensions enabled in the bios, try disabling it, and then try it again. Cheers, Chris ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-02 Thread Rainer Orth
Alan Coopersmith writes: > The SMF support for selecting an X server should stay - I have no plans to > remove it since it is useful for selecting between the remaining X servers > (Xorg, Xvnc, Xvfb), but Xsun will probably disappear from the list in the > Xserver script at some point. That's gre

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Jensen Lee wrote: > Certainly I want to keep using my Sun Blade. Will Sun next commercial release > of Solaris at least support the legacy 3D Labs cards? Solaris 10 is the last release of Solaris planned to support those cards. > And by the way, due to this mess with OpenSolaris, I do not think

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Tecra M10 laptop hangs on shutdown & reboot

2009-11-02 Thread Christopher Baumbauer
As a followup, if you have virtualization extensions enabled in the bios, try disabling it, and then try it again. Cheers, Chris ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-02 Thread Jensen Lee
I posted a message to ziiLabs' customer support which is the new company formed from 3DLabs. Please join me in inondating ziiLabs with requests to open the drivers for Sun frambuffer cards following this link: http://www.ziilabs.com/aboutus/contactgeneral.aspx The power of the Internet communi

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Tecra M10 laptop hangs on shutdown & reboot

2009-11-02 Thread Christopher Baumbauer
I opened up a bug on this as http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10106 when suspend/resume quit working for me in dev build 118, however I also noticed that the same thing happens on shutdown/reboot. Cheers, Chris On 11/02/09 07:34, Keith Mitchell wrote: I've experienced a simila

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-02 Thread Jensen Lee
I understand that even though Sun posted binary drivers for OpenSolaris, Xorg will not work with them and Xsun is not bundled with it. To reply to those who suggested OpenBSD, that is out of topic, I have Sun because I want to run Solaris, if I wanted openBSD I would have had a cheap intel box.

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWipkg constraints??

2009-11-02 Thread Shawn Walker
Tim Cook wrote: I was attempting to upgrade SUNWipkg because an image-update to build 125 was failing. I thought perhaps it was an old rev of pkg that was holding me back. For whatever reason, after about 20 tries last night, it worked doing an image-update with the 118 version SUNWipkg this

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Rainer Orth wrote: > Jensen Lee writes: > >> It is a shame that Sun does not support XVR-500, XVR-1000, Expert 3D and >> several other graphic cards on OpenSolaris because of copyright/NDA/patent >> issues. >> >> I think that Sun should make an effort to liase with 3D Labs to open their >>

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWipkg constraints??

2009-11-02 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > 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.

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

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ken mays wrote: > 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 card

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Tecra M10 laptop hangs on shutdown & reboot

2009-11-02 Thread Keith Mitchell
I've experienced a similar issue with my M10, but haven't investigated the cause yet either. It's been this way for me for several builds now. Alan Steinberg wrote: On my Tecra M10 I've seen that it will stay at the "syncing file systems... done" point for a few minutes, but then does shut down

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-02 Thread Rainer Orth
Jensen Lee writes: > It is a shame that Sun does not support XVR-500, XVR-1000, Expert 3D and > several other graphic cards on OpenSolaris because of copyright/NDA/patent > issues. > > I think that Sun should make an effort to liase with 3D Labs to open their > drivers source to allow for im

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Tecra M10 laptop hangs on shutdown & reboot

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Steinberg
On my Tecra M10 I've seen that it will stay at the "syncing file systems... done" point for a few minutes, but then does shut down on its own. I haven't investigated at all the cause of the delay. -- Alan John Martin wrote: andrew wrote: My OpenSolaris Tecra M10 has a problem running the late

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-02 Thread Mattieu Baptiste
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: > hi, with unaccelerated frame buffer mode drivers derived from wsfb   ... > > > %mab > Yeah, with that "unaccelerated frame buffer mode drivers derived from wsfb" my *workstation* is actually more useful than a serial console. -- Mattieu B

Re: [osol-discuss] any work on bug ID 6807184

2009-11-02 Thread Masayuki Murayama
> This bug is for the RTL8111 chipset and the rge > driver. The problem has been going on for some time > and the bug has also been open for quite some time > without updates. Is anyone working this problem? I'd like to investigate the issue. I have an idea to make a test version of rge with patch

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-02 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Mattieu Baptiste wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Jensen Lee wrote: >> Has anybody (Sun) actually asked 3D Labs to open their graphic cards drivers >> source? Because 3D Labs are no longer in the business of producing graphic >> cards, and I do not see w

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Tecra M10 laptop hangs on shutdown & reboot

2009-11-02 Thread John Martin
andrew wrote: My OpenSolaris Tecra M10 has a problem running the latest builds of OpenSolaris which doesn't happen with 2009.06 . The problem is that when I attempt to shutdown the machine it hangs. I get the "syncing file systems... done" message then it stops. I get a similar result when reb

Re: [osol-discuss] with snv_126 I can not patch JavaSE 5.0 or JavaSE 6

2009-11-02 Thread Iain Curtain
You'll need to remove the SUNWj5jmp folder from the patch, as it doesn't exist on your system. It's not new - it has been going on for a while with the patch sets. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensol

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-02 Thread Mattieu Baptiste
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Jensen Lee wrote: > Has anybody (Sun) actually asked 3D Labs to open their graphic cards drivers > source? Because 3D Labs are no longer in the business of producing graphic > cards, and I do not see why they would not do that if asked. > Check : http://wikis.su

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Tecra M10 laptop hangs on shutdown & reboot

2009-11-02 Thread andrew
My OpenSolaris Tecra M10 has a problem running the latest builds of OpenSolaris which doesn't happen with 2009.06 . The problem is that when I attempt to shutdown the machine it hangs. I get the "syncing file systems... done" message then it stops. I get a similar result when rebooting. Is this

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-02 Thread Jensen Lee
Has anybody (Sun) actually asked 3D Labs to open their graphic cards drivers source? Because 3D Labs are no longer in the business of producing graphic cards, and I do not see why they would not do that if asked. If they did it would only make good publicity to their name. -- This message poste

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-02 Thread ken mays
--- On Mon, 11/2/09, Jensen Lee wrote: > From: Jensen Lee > Subject: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic > cards > To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 5:21 AM > It is a shame that Sun does not > support XVR-500, XVR-1000, Exp

[osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-02 Thread Jensen Lee
It is a shame that Sun does not support XVR-500, XVR-1000, Expert 3D and several other graphic cards on OpenSolaris because of copyright/NDA/patent issues. I think that Sun should make an effort to liase with 3D Labs to open their drivers source to allow for implementation into OpenSolaris. I