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

2009-11-05 Thread Mauro M.
A first step would be someone gathering a list of people committed to working on it, and going through the opensolaris project creation process to get yourself a mailing list and source repository setup. I am not an X11 expert but you can count me in, with some guidance I can do some work.

Re: [osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Mark Martin wrote: (Rough) straw project proposal for your consideration. My interest is solely as an eventual beneficiary of your work. = *XSun emancipation***Project = Name *XSun emancipation* alias: *xsun*-disc...@os.o Synopsis A project to emancipate the XSun sources

Re: [osol-discuss] ln -s: OpenSolaris vs Linux vs Solaris

2009-11-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
Paul Griffith pa...@cse.yorku.ca wrote: I used tcsh on Solaris Sparc and Linux and bash on OpenSolaris. Due to many responses I now know that different shells will give different results with pwd and symlinked directories. If you like to be shell independent, you may call /bin/pwd pwd is a

Re: [osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
Hi Mark, +1 from me. I still cannot believe it. A dream coming true))) Cheers, %martin On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Mark Martin storycraf...@gmail.com wrote: (Rough) straw project proposal for your consideration.  My interest is solely as an eventual beneficiary of your work. =

Re: [osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com wrote: Mark Martin wrote: (Rough) straw project proposal for your consideration.  My interest is solely as an eventual beneficiary of your work. = *XSun emancipation***Project = Name *XSun emancipation*

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

2009-11-05 Thread ken mays
--- On Thu, 11/5/09, Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote: From: Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards To: Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com Cc: OpenSolaris X Window System List

[osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Mark Martin
(Rough) straw project proposal for your consideration. My interest is solely as an eventual beneficiary of your work. = *XSun emancipation***Project = Name *XSun emancipation* alias: *xsun*-disc...@os.o Synopsis A project to emancipate the XSun sources and write wrappers to use

Re: [osol-discuss] ln -s: OpenSolaris vs Linux vs Solaris

2009-11-05 Thread Phillip Wagstrom -- Area Technical Engineer
Paul Griffith wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 18:09 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Paul Griffith pa...@cse.yorku.ca wrote: Greetings, I noticed a subtle difference in symbolic links between Linux and OpenSolaris. Look at the two examples below. It is like OpenSolaris is treating the sym link

Re: [osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Mark Martin
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Mark Martin wrote: (Rough) straw project proposal for your consideration. My interest is solely as an eventual beneficiary of your work. = *XSun emancipation***Project = Name *XSun emancipation* alias: *xsun*-disc...@os.o Synopsis A project to emancipate

Re: [osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Mauro M.
= *XSun emancipation***Project = Name *XSun emancipation* Thank you Mark for doing this. Only I would suggest Open Xsun for the project name. Emancipation sounds inappropriate as its meaning is about freeing people from oppression and slavery, Xsun is a software component, not a

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

2009-11-05 Thread Masayuki Murayama
Masayuki Murayama wrote: Let me know if you need anything, testing, info, such Thanks sorry for late response. I was busy in this week. I need the mac version of your nic, because realtek gigabit nic family has many variants which are identified by mac versions. So, I'd like

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev + OSS + Virtualbox = not good

2009-11-05 Thread Dev Mazumdar
I'd rather use IPS, but the only IPS version I know of is the one in contrib, and it's fairly outdated. Also, what about the 8788 chipset? Is there anywhere I can find a list of supported devices? I guess this means that opensolaris is incompatible with OSS from this point on, unless

Re: [osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Mauro M. m...@ezplanet.net wrote: = *XSun emancipation***Project = Name *XSun emancipation* Thank you Mark for doing this. Only I would suggest Open Xsun for the project name. Emancipation sounds inappropriate as its meaning is about freeing

[osol-discuss] Format strangeness

2009-11-05 Thread Ron Mexico
I have 24 identical Western Digital drives connected to a Dell SAS 5/E HBA. Three of the drives list the following disk information when using the verify utility under the format command: Volume name = ascii name = ATA-WDC WD2002FYPS-0-5G04-1.82TB bytes/sector= 512 sectors =

[osol-discuss] 1394 pci card recognized, how to capture video

2009-11-05 Thread Harry Putnam
I'd forgotten I had a pci ohci 1394 firewire card on this opensolaris box, from before it was an opensolaris box. I'm in a bind with with my video editing box (winXP) have serious trouble with usb and firewire ports. Before just tranferring the card over, I wondered if it is even a remote

Re: [osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Mauro M.
Emancipation sounds inappropriate as its meaning is about freeing people from oppression and slavery, Xsun is a software component, not a person and it isn't really oppressed. Firstly, the term emancipation hits the nail on its head most precisely. Although I myself also generally prefer

Re: [osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Mark Martin
Mauro M. wrote: Emancipation sounds inappropriate as its meaning is about freeing people from oppression and slavery, Xsun is a software component, not a person and it isn't really oppressed. Firstly, the term emancipation hits the nail on its head most precisely. Although I

Re: [osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Mauro M. m...@ezplanet.net wrote: Emancipation sounds inappropriate as its meaning is about freeing people from oppression and slavery, Xsun is a software component, not a person and it isn't really oppressed. Firstly, the term emancipation hits the nail on

Re: [osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Mark Martin storycraf...@gmail.com wrote: Mauro M. wrote: Emancipation sounds inappropriate as its meaning is about freeing people from oppression and slavery, Xsun is a software component, not a person and it isn't really oppressed. Firstly, the term

Re: [osol-discuss] nightly fail. three times in two nights. *help*

2009-11-05 Thread ken mays
--- On Thu, 11/5/09, Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.org wrote: From: Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.org Subject: [osol-discuss] nightly fail. three times in two nights. *help* To: OpenSolaris-discuss@OpenSolaris.org Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 11:54 AM Once upon a time this was

Re: [osol-discuss] USB Mouse Vanishing in snv_126

2009-11-05 Thread Francois Laagel
Hi John, I'm glad to report that your workaround also works here. That remains a hack, though. Somebody more informed than I am about the official channels for doing so, should definitely file a CR against this. Sticking to snv_125 for the time being. Best regards. Francois

Re: [osol-discuss] 1394 pci card recognized, how to capture video

2009-11-05 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
On 11/ 5/09 01:14 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I'd forgotten I had a pci ohci 1394 firewire card on this opensolaris box, from before it was an opensolaris box. I'm in a bind with with my video editing box (winXP) have serious trouble with usb and firewire ports. Before just tranferring the card

Re: [osol-discuss] 1394 pci card recognized, how to capture video

2009-11-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Artem Kachitchkine artem.kachitch...@sun.com writes: On 11/ 5/09 01:14 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I'd forgotten I had a pci ohci 1394 firewire card on this opensolaris box, from before it was an opensolaris box. I'm in a bind with with my video editing box (winXP) have serious trouble with usb

Re: [osol-discuss] 1394 pci card recognized, how to capture video

2009-11-05 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
The tool shows the 1394 hub, but `hci1394' as driver pkg search on both av1394 and hci1394 shows them in different packages. (both installed here) Do you know if that driver (hci1394) should be capable of video capture? No, hci1394 is a host controller driver, not a target driver. If

Re: [osol-discuss] [xwin-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Martin Bochnig wrote: The name FullyOpenX was once invented by Alan Coopersmith. I am admittedly guilty of chosing names based on being able to reduce them to abbreviations or acronyms that amuse me (FOX and X-cons), but that's not a requirement for anyone else to follow. -- -Alan

[osol-discuss] question about ignoreeof

2009-11-05 Thread Alexander
Hello. Does someone know why is ignoreeof set by default in bash now in /etc/bash/bashrc ? It is quite annoying :) I understand, that I can export IGNOREEOF=0 in each ~/.bashrc , but why such annoying behavior became default? P.S. Another question. I'd prefer to remove it from

Re: [osol-discuss] question about ignoreeof

2009-11-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alexander wrote: Hello. Does someone know why is ignoreeof set by default in bash now in /etc/bash/bashrc ? It is quite annoying :) Because you're running build 126, and don't yet have this change coming in 127 to revert that setting:

Re: [osol-discuss] question about ignoreeof

2009-11-05 Thread Norm Jacobs
It's fixed in build 127. In build 127, the files in /etc/bash are renamed to *.example and provided as examples. -Norm Alexander wrote: Hello. Does someone know why is ignoreeof set by default in bash now in /etc/bash/bashrc ? It is quite annoying :) I understand, that I can export