Re: [osol-discuss] mplayer + VDPAU + opensolaris = ?

2010-07-21 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi John, John Martin píše v út 20. 07. 2010 v 13:53 -0400: For media players I always recommend Fluendo before trying to roll your own. Cannot test OS support for SSE, leaving disabled. . When I get some time I will look into the SSE message. See the fix for SSE/SSE2 below in

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Stefan Parvu
Interesting. Do you have any comparative numbers between OSOL and others: RHAT, Ubuntu for instance ? I had the impression SMF did improve things. As I read your post it seems, sometimes in past but not anymore ... why is that ? Probable somebody should fill in some bugs regarding this ?

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-21 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
Thanks for the suggestion. Any idea how to check the specific chipset number? At bootup, the BIOS says: 88SE91xx, and doesn't give the last couple of numbers. I've tried to look within OSOL itself, say using the device driver manager on the LiveCD, but it just says SATA controller. -- This

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-21 Thread Matthias Pfützner
Try scanpci or a prtconf -pv You might even try to scan the /var/adm/messages file... ;-) Matthias You (valrh...@gmail.com) wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. Any idea how to check the specific chipset number? At bootup, the BIOS says: 88SE91xx, and doesn't give

Re: [osol-discuss] I hope we also get a welcome mat at openworld.

2010-07-21 Thread Paul Harper
Why isn't Larry slapping his marketing personnel? Can they spell communication? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-21 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
@dre2kse: I can't get either of these cards to work at all. I tried the suggestion to boot the LiveCD, and it shows the AHCI driver attached to the SATA controller. When I run format, I don't see the drive attached to the card. I've tried this with an SSD and a regular HD, switched all the

Re: [osol-discuss] I hope we also get a welcome mat at openworld.

2010-07-21 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Why isn't Larry slapping his marketing personnel? Can they spell communication? Non-communications is the policy, right? So he'd have to slap himself. I'd like a video of that... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 20/07/2010 21:42, Joerg Schilling wrote: John Plocherjohn.ploc...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Bart Smaaldersbart.smaald...@oracle.com wrote: . Joerg (et.al.) This all

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stefan Parvu stefanparv...@yahoo.com wrote: Interesting. Do you have any comparative numbers between OSOL and others: RHAT, Ubuntu for instance ? I had the impression SMF did improve things. As I read your post it seems, sometimes in past but not anymore ... why is that ? Probable

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 20/07/2010 20:56, Joerg Schilling wrote: Robert Milkowskimi...@task.gda.pl wrote: I must admit that I actually like IPS. Of course it is work-in-progress but for most of the part it already works better than the old packaging tools. IPS is not yet inside OpenSolaris and I am

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Stefan Parvu
right. Good point is to keep all these things logged somewhere and we could track them down in time. Btw: if community thinks for a itself distro, which I salute more than anything, we could think first to have a defect management system where we could freely log these sort of defects and a

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Robert Milkowski mi...@task.gda.pl wrote: Of course IPS is included in the OSOL distribution for a long time now. One might argue that the OSOL is a community distribution as apart from Sun many community members contributed to it in one way or another. Sure, most of the work has been done

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Stefan Parvu stefanparv...@yahoo.com wrote: Interesting. Do you have any comparative numbers between OSOL and others: RHAT, Ubuntu for instance ? I had the impression SMF did improve things. As I read your post it seems, sometimes in past but not anymore ... why is that ?

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stefan Parvu stefanparv...@yahoo.com wrote: right. Good point is to keep all these things logged somewhere and we could track them down in time. Do you believe you need bugzilla or would the bugtracker at Berlios be sufficient? Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home)

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 21/07/2010 11:01, Joerg Schilling wrote: Robert Milkowskimi...@task.gda.pl wrote: Of course IPS is included in the OSOL distribution for a long time now. One might argue that the OSOL is a community distribution as apart from Sun many community members contributed to it in one way or

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread ken mays
--- On Wed, 7/21/10, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: -    There is no Xorg package from Blastwave, is there such a beast     from other sources besides Indiana? Hmm, that is incorrect. BW had successful Xorg packaging since Xorg 6.4 (I thank Sun's X team for

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stefan Parvu stefanparv...@yahoo.com wrote: Do you believe you need bugzilla or would the bugtracker at Berlios be sufficient? any defect managemetn system would be enough. Probable easier would be to have bugzilla since we might need to have a compatibility with vendor which uses

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: I am not sure about where you live but in the real world, there is NO IPS in Solaris. IPS was introduced in Indiana (why not in Solaris) and Indiana is a nice proof of concept on how to slow down things by working against the community. In the world

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote: Why use the latest source tree if this causes lots of problems? Why cause lots of problems by refusing to work with the other community members and refusing to use the latest available code? Do you really believe I did not try newer

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread russell
With a community distro would it be possible to capture drivers that are being dropped by Oracle from future editions of OpenSolaris? If these drivers can be captured to maintain the existing hardware support, then going forward if the community edition is fully GPL compliant then porting GPL

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-21 Thread Valrhona
Im running this in a Dell PowerEdge T410, 2 GHz Xeon (Core i7) with 8 GB of RAM. There are six 2TB drives attached to a Dell SAS 6i/R card, which are recognized just fine. I wanted to add the the SSD as an L2ARC, and am using the same PCIe SATA card that is running the CD-ROM drive (which boots

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Stefan Parvu
Berlios.de is a service that exists already and after we moved to berlios.eu we will have plenty of space. sounds good. nginx I was thinking since is small, compact and does not require pre-forking ala Apache. wise consumption is always better. Here you have some details:

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Stefan Parvu
Do you believe you need bugzilla or would the bugtracker at Berlios be sufficient? any defect managemetn system would be enough. Probable easier would be to have bugzilla since we might need to have a compatibility with vendor which uses bugzilla. We need to think a bit. As well:

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
fully gpl compliant? what do you mean? If the driver being dropped is open source, you can always take the source code and keep updating it outside ON. Several people already do this On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:21 PM, russell str...@willows7.myzen.co.uk wrote: With a community distro would it be

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 21/07/2010 16:28, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: fully gpl compliant? what do you mean? If the driver being dropped is open source, you can always take the source code and keep updating it outside ON. Several people already do this I would recommend in such a case to package it in IPS

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
russell wrote: With a community distro would it be possible to capture drivers that are being dropped by Oracle from future editions of OpenSolaris? For the ones that are either open source or redistributable, I don't see why not. If these drivers can be captured to maintain the existing

Re: [osol-discuss] VLC building help

2010-07-21 Thread Orvar Korvar
Have you tried it compile VLC via OpenSolaris spec-files? They are basically a diff to the ordinary make file, so you can compile on OSol without any greater problems. Google on spec-files -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
russell str...@willows7.myzen.co.uk wrote: With a community distro would it be possible to capture drivers that are being dropped by Oracle from future editions of OpenSolaris? If these drivers can be captured to maintain the existing hardware support, then going forward if the community

[osol-discuss] Community distro, teamwork and being clear

2010-07-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote: Why use the latest source tree if this causes lots of problems? Why cause lots of problems by refusing to work with the other community members and refusing to use the latest available code? Do you really believe I did not try newer

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote: The community edition can only be fully GPL compliant if the community rewrites the kernel, at which point it's really a new OS, not a community distro. The community can't change the license terms for the code Oracle owns/releases from

Re: [osol-discuss] VLC building help

2010-07-21 Thread Andre Lue
You can try changing the linker to gld instead of ld my technique cp -p /usr/bin/ld /usr/bin/ld.sun cp -p /usr/sfw/bin/gld /usr/sfw/bin/gld.gnu then I symlink ld to ld.sun or gld as needed -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Peter Jones
Alan Coopersmith alan dot coopersmith at oracle dot com wrote: The community edition can only be fully GPL compliant if the community rewrites the kernel, at which point it's really a new OS, not a community distro. The community can't change the license terms for the code Oracle

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Peter Jones wrote: Alan Coopersmith alan dot coopersmith at oracle dot com wrote: The community edition can only be fully GPL compliant if the community rewrites the kernel, at which point it's really a new OS, not a community distro. The community can't change the license terms for the code

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro, teamwork and being clear

2010-07-21 Thread me
AH HA +1 Let me know if I can help anywhere on the project. I have contacted one person already that has blown the community rally bugle. Actually I kinda liked the GUI from SXCE, I can find a replacement graphic for the menu button :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] VLC building help

2010-07-21 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
Have you tried it compile VLC via OpenSolaris spec-files? They are basically a diff to the ordinary make file, so you can compile on OSol without any greater problems. Google on spec-files I just tried, but with no luck. Did a fresh install of pkgtools and then $ /opt/pkgbuild/bin/pkgtool

Re: [osol-discuss] mplayer + VDPAU + opensolaris = ?

2010-07-21 Thread Aleksey Cheusov
mplayer -vo vdpau \ -vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffh264vdpau hd-video.m2ts I found a BDAV sample file (test1.m2ts - Cars trailer) and it plays smoothly with the combination of mplayer built with earlier instructions and NVIDIA driver 256.35 on Atom N330 + ION. It is

[osol-discuss] I'm tired of Skip boot menu on restart

2010-07-21 Thread Aleksey Cheusov
When I press Shut down in gnome menu I see Skip boot menu on restart checkbox which ON by default. I'd like to ALWAYS see boot menu, so I'd like to turned off this checkbox once and forever. How? -- Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov. ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro, teamwork and being clear

2010-07-21 Thread Ken Gunderson
+1 from me as well. Sometime back I communicated same to Joerg privately. I don't code but am fairly seasoned sysadmin so there's bound to be some thankless but necessary dirty work along those lines that needs doing. If so, feel free to give me a holler. P.S.; Dennis, it would also be

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Ken Gunderson
Why not apply for a free open source project license for Jira? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] mplayer + VDPAU + opensolaris = ?

2010-07-21 Thread John Martin
On 07/21/10 04:03 PM, Aleksey Cheusov wrote: It is good to know that OpenSolaris supports VDPAU in theory and works for someone. But unfortunately it still doesn't work for me :-(. I'm certain VDPAU is supported and works. It is part of the performance and regression testing done for each

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-21 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/22/10 02:43 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: I am not sure about where you live but in the real world, there is NO IPS in Solaris. IPS was introduced in Indiana (why not in Solaris) and Indiana is a nice proof of concept on how to slow down things

Re: [osol-discuss] mplayer + VDPAU + opensolaris = ?

2010-07-21 Thread Aleksey Cheusov
I'm certain VDPAU is supported and works. It is part of the performance and regression testing done for each driver release. Hm, it is interesting to know how QA is organized in OpenSolaris. Is this information available online anywhere or entire process is made intirely inside Oracle? How

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Hackathon! - Sat 31st Jul/Sun 1st Aug in London UK

2010-07-21 Thread Alasdair Lumsden
Hello All, What: OpenSolaris Hackathon! When: Saturday 31st July Sunday 1st August 2010, 10am to 9pm both days Where: London, UK (For full address see below) (Also Worldwide on IRC) Link: http://osolhackathon.eventbrite.com/ Misc: Food Drinks will be provided both days, and the Hackathon will

Re: [osol-discuss] I hope we also get a welcome mat at openworld.

2010-07-21 Thread Graham McArdle
interesting...I guess Oracle is still in the process integrating SUN. er at WEBMINK blog, I found a link that leads to an Oracle site title Oracle's Support for Open Source and Open Standards and has OpenSolaris as one of their KEY OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVES. along with

Re: [osol-discuss] I hope we also get a welcome mat at openworld.

2010-07-21 Thread Fabio Kaminski
it will take a long time til oracle can digest an animal like sun... linux is pretty much in oracle DNA.. maybe the silence about osol is about to kill or disperse de community formed around it... i dont think a smart company like oracle would consciouslly forget a project like this.. i think is