[osol-discuss] Re: SXCR Build 56 available

2007-02-06 Thread Charles Meeks
I don't mean to spoil the party, certainly OpenSolaris has improved immensely, but my laptop HP/Compaq NC6220 with Broadcom wireless, iwi, used to work with earlier builds B52 I think. With B54, B55, B56, wireless disappears. scanpci sees the hardware, pc8086,4220, but I can't get wireless

[osol-discuss] oss drivers b53 make beautiful music

2006-12-09 Thread Charles Meeks
If you have silent laptop with nvb53... or earlier, check out the oss drivers at http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2435sid=f04a771ccdd9b8af67224889161b3c50 I have a clunky old hp ze4530us that now plays my cds thanks to those drivers. This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: SXCR b53

2006-12-05 Thread Charles Meeks
yep. see below, I was trying to build 20061127 and used hg clone ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/onnv/onnv-gate to get usr/src. BTW: hg clone -r . doesn't work and gives this msg # hg clone -r onnv_53 ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/onnv/onnv-gate clone -r not supported yet for

[osol-discuss] Re: SXCR b53

2006-12-04 Thread Charles Meeks
me too... I tried building ON from b51 and following Dennis Clarkes instructions but to no avail. All I get is 400 lines of errors that look like this: # tail -f mail_msg 20061127-nv Make clobber ERRORS Make tools clobber ERRORS Tools build errors

[osol-discuss] Re: snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Charles Meeks
Hello opensolaris-discuss, I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( System was put on mirrored SVM volume. -- Best regards, Robert ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ttp://milek.blogspot.com

[osol-discuss] Re: REMINDER: [SVOSUG] Tonight in Silicon Valley,

2006-10-02 Thread Charles Meeks
NOTE: I completely fat finger'd Yuan Lin's name and apologize. Yuan would like to show the new Sun Studio Data Race Detection Tool which he has been working on. Tonight, Sept. 28, 2006, we're glad to have a couple nice presentations for folks. First off, we'll be having a short

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Problems booting Solaris (10 01/06, NV_33) on HP Pavilion dv8000

2006-05-09 Thread Charles Meeks
I just loaded nv38 on my hp/compaq ze4530us laptop, it has the ATI Radeon 4xagp, video chipset. It still exibits the system hang problem after booting, keyboard/mouse stop responding even before Xorg starts.Booting up with -kd and using manually typed in workaround is effective but putting

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Problems booting Solaris (10 01/06, NV_33) on HP Pavilion dv8000

2006-05-09 Thread Charles Meeks
I just re-read the thread in bugs entitled Re: build 36 xorg regression ?? and alanc's response. This thread is a perfect description of what is happening on my hp ze4530us. I believe that I will try his suggestion to move aside libvbe.so and/or moinakg's suggestion to get libvbe.so from

[osol-discuss] Re: Problems booting Solaris (10 01/06,

2006-03-21 Thread Charles Meeks
Bruno, Good luck! You will certainly need it. I have tried nv28, nv30, nv33, nv34, nexenta, belenix. None of these install and boot correctly on my my pavilion hp4530us, or pavilion sv6000(this one exibits exactly the same (mis)behavior as you describe).As far as I am concerned,

[osol-discuss] Re: Problems booting Solaris (10 01/06,

2006-03-20 Thread Charles Meeks
Hi folks, I just bought a HP Pavilion dv8113cl Turion 64 ML-37, 2GHz 1GB, 80GB, 80GB, 17-in. WXGA+ laptop from Costco. Here are it's specs: http://tinyurl.com/s2yaf I am trying to boot the latest version of the Solaris Express (b33) on it and I can't seem to get past the installer