Re: [osol-discuss] Has an error been unfixed between 116 and 121? /opt/sunstudio12.1/prod/lib/crti.o: section [9].rela.annotate has invalid type [ SHT_RELA ] *** Error code 1

2009-09-07 Thread Alfred Peng
I had the same problem and the workaround works for me: http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10753546#10753546. -Alfred On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Henry Pepperhenryp...@gmail.com wrote: How might I fix this compilation error: When I tried to a simple app with sun studio 12.1 on

Re: [osol-discuss] Firefox 3.5.2 Software

2009-08-08 Thread Alfred Peng
- Grab the Firefox 3.5.2 binary from http://opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/mozilla/development/ (opensolaris-i386 version I guess) - Then follow the commands below can launch Firefox for you: % tar jxvf firefox-3.5.2.en-US.opensolaris-i386.tar.bz2 % cd firefox % ./firefox You

Re: [osol-discuss] Firefox 3.5.2 Software

2009-08-08 Thread Alfred Peng
Mutahir: Hi Alfred, Thank you for the instructions, I am going to try that in a minute and will post updates as soon as possible. Now, for the repositories to work, do I need to add any lines in any files ? I have used Unix/Linux/Opensolaris but I have never had the chance to dig deep in to

Re: [osol-discuss] open solaris on lenovo

2009-06-02 Thread Alfred Peng
Following are the ways that I know of to install the applications on OpenSolaris from end-users perspective: 1. Install from the package repository by Package Manager Web Installer. Go to http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release/en/index.shtml and search the packages you want to have. Take openoffice

Re: [osol-discuss] when gtk+ update to 2.12 or above

2009-04-28 Thread Alfred Peng
$ cat /etc/release OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111a X86 Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 17 April 2009 $ pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0 2.14.5 From

Re: [osol-discuss] Packages installation

2009-04-24 Thread Alfred Peng
Gohan, How about % export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=/opt/csw/lib/gstreamer-0.10; gst-inspect gst-inspect can print out the information for GStreamer plugins you have on your box. Do you have the mpeg video decoder in the list? As the packages come from Blastwave, maybe you want to also try the rhythmbox

Re: [osol-discuss] Instaling GFTP but error in gmake process

2009-04-23 Thread Alfred Peng
SUNWgftp (2.0.19) has been included in http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev. If you really want to build from source, better to go with this one: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/jds/spec-files-other/trunk/core/SUNWgftp.spec (2.0.19) and the CBE instruction sent by Brian below. Cheers, -Alfred

Re: [osol-discuss] Packages installation

2009-04-20 Thread Alfred Peng
Jerry Tan wrote: On 04/19/09 11:40, Gohan Ray wrote: Hello guys..I m a newbie to OpenSolaris.. I was working on installing packages from Package Manager. I added Blastwave Repository.. Then i installed mplayer , ffmpeg codecs and GStreamer Plugins.. But the GStreamer codecs are not

Re: [osol-discuss] Ldom general info request

2009-03-26 Thread Alfred Peng
MD wrote: Hi all, I saw that Sun is providing to Hypervisors : - xVM (not released, in beta, a fork from Xen on Solaris 10) Guess you mean the xVM server: http://www.sun.com/software/products/xvmserver/index.xml. Then it's in beta phase. It runs on x86 box. - Ldom : But I can't find

Re: [osol-discuss] Error in pkg install

2009-03-22 Thread Alfred Peng
IPSmc doesn't exist in /release repository. I guess you'll have to add the blastwave IPS repo to the authority list: % pfexec pkg set-authority -O http://blastwave.network.com:1/ blastwave And try again: % pfexec pkg install IPSmc -Alfred Spoorthy H.S wrote: Here's the output of pkg

Re: [osol-discuss] How can I get rid of aggravating `Key ring'

2009-03-11 Thread Alfred Peng
you can go to System-Preferences-Sessions and uncheck GNOME Keyring Daemon Wrapper in the Startup Programs tab to turn off gnome-keyring, if you do not like it. Detail can be found: https://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=310681#310681 -Alfred Harry Putnam wrote: Can

Re: [osol-discuss] adobe flash

2009-03-03 Thread Alfred Peng
bill wrote: ok so i installed and started using opensolaris off of the livecd i made with no troubles. and i went online...pretty impressed with the speed and all...went to youtube...and whoops. adobe flash isn't natively installed. so i went to filehippo.com, where i download a lot of stuff, and

Re: [osol-discuss] OS laptop operates with lid closed?

2009-02-16 Thread Alfred Peng
If the laptop doesn't support power suspend/resume yet or the action for When laptop lid is closed in power management preference isn't set to suspend/shutdown, the laptop should run continuously in this case. -Alfred Chris Mahan wrote: Question: Does anyone know if it would be possible to

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-11-04 Thread Alfred Peng
Martin Bochnig wrote: I like gcc because it has repeatedly helped me to get things working, which not only would first need to be ported to Studio, but which in some cases cannot even be ported to Studio at all. Another example is Qemu. gcc is the choice for a lot of open source projects

Re: [osol-discuss] irefox 3.0.1 contrib. builds for Solaris10 hungs when printing is attempted

2008-09-24 Thread Alfred Peng
Thommy M. Malmström wrote: I would like to mention one problem though relating to printing: as soon as I use CtrP or use the menus to print a web page, FF3.0.1 FREEZES UP completely. This is the exact same behavior that I see on OpenSolaris 2008.11 b96 Hi Thommy, Two bugs have

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.05 - feedback of progress

2008-06-04 Thread Alfred Peng
Euan Thoms wrote: Command shell; Being quite new to *nix, I probably shouldn't comment in this area. I really like the adoption of bash as default shell, and single quotes when drag and dropping from nautilus. What about colour coding of output from ls though? With the command below: #

Re: [osol-discuss] SVG Problems with Firefox 2.0 on Solaris

2008-01-16 Thread Alfred Peng
Patrick Bachmann wrote: Hello Mitch, On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:47:35AM -0800, Mitch Barney wrote: Has anyone at all had success with using SVG with Firefox 2.0 on a Solaris box? Or does anyone have any proof that the embedded SVG in Firefox 2.0 for Solaris works? I'm running

Re: [osol-discuss] Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 for Solaris

2008-01-08 Thread Alfred Peng
Hi Richard, I had the similar issue which seems to be related to pango. Upgrade to the latest svn could partly fix this. Please also note the bug here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405268 in case you meet the same stack. -Alfred Richard L. Hamilton wrote: In case you're

Re: [osol-discuss] Reflections from the GSoC Mentor's summit

2007-10-22 Thread Alfred Peng
Besides the GSoC, the programming contest in China(http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/contest/) also provides a platform for students to get involved in OpenSolaris community. The contest/GSoC is just the beginning. What's more important is to foster student interests around the community.

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Alfred Peng
Glynn Foster wrote: I am very confused about some of the recent events in regards to OpenSolaris, including your involvment, and not sure how marketing and engineering co-exist in the free world to be honest. Actually, in my experience there has been *more* of a need for open source

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Latest opensolaris VMware image

2007-04-10 Thread Alfred Peng
Hi Atul, There should be four VM images for download. Three are Solaris 10, and the last one is the latest release: Solaris Express, Developer Edition which is an OpenSolaris based distro. -Alfred Atul Vidwansa wrote: Never mind. I got the images at

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Mozilla DTrace project

2007-03-07 Thread Alfred Peng
Roy T. Fielding wrote: Why do you need a project on OpenSolaris if there is already a project on mozilla.org that is willing to accept dtrace-specific extensions? Why not just join the Mozilla project and contribute directly to the upstream source base? The DTrace patches for Mozilla will be

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal :: Google's Sumer of Code

2007-03-01 Thread Alfred Peng
Glynn Foster wrote: I guess the first challenge is to come up with an exciting list of projects and awesome mentors to work with for the students. This is a great opportunity both to get some code written, but also to cultivate some community growth and get more people contributing to the

[osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Firefox 3.0 alpha2 contrib. builds on Solaris Nevada are available on mozilla.org

2007-02-20 Thread Alfred Peng
Please do NOT reply to this address. If you have any problems, feel free to send email to the alias [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Firefox 3.0 alpha2 contrib. builds on Solaris Nevada are now available on mozilla.org. It's still under development and *not* a stable release. Download Page and Location

[osol-discuss] Re: [desktop-discuss] Firefox 2.0rc2 contrib. builds on Solaris10, Solaris 8/9 is now available on mozilla.org

2006-10-12 Thread Alfred Peng
New features can be found here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/#whatsnew There are some great improvement for Firefox: Resuming your browsing session Inline spell checking Tab browsing enhancement Look and feel improvement ... -Alfred Dave Lin wrote: