Re: [osol-discuss] SASL support in sendmail

2012-01-20 Thread John Beck
dmail is neither compiled with -DSASL nor linked with libsasl. There is talk of possibly fixing this, but I do not know if that will happen, much less when. -- John http://blogs.oracle.com/jbeck/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 install trouble, NVIDIA

2012-01-10 Thread John Martin
On 01/10/12 15:38, Blai Bonet wrote: I'm also having trouble with the nvidia driver. I installed Solaris 11 11/11 in a Sun Ultra 20. Everything went fine until installing the desktop. Afterwards, I get kernel panics (and crash dumps) when using the supplied nividia driver. Please provide the p

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 install trouble, NVIDIA

2011-11-11 Thread John Martin
On 11/10/11 21:09, Paul Gress wrote: /kernel/drv/amd64/nvidia: undefined symbol 'pm_destroy_components' warning: mod_load: cannot load module 'nvidia' You are using an old NVIDIA driver without the fix for IR 842949. Either use the bundled driver for Solaris 11 or any driver from nvidia.com po

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel Kernel Mode-setting (KMS) in snv173

2011-10-17 Thread John Martin
On 10/17/11 13:38, Bruno Damour wrote: I has tried with console=text but not the correct option as it seems ;-) console=text still uses bitmapped graphics. From the heads up message: Solaris now has support for high resolution and color depth consoles. By default, your machine will boot usi

Re: [osol-discuss] New update of Solaris 11, how is it?

2011-10-06 Thread john kroll
Will the root password expire like solaris express 2010 ? That was a most unwelcome surprise for me and so far I have not updated with oracle kernel. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@op

[osol-discuss] john sent you a movie ticket redeemable at more than 200 nation wide theatre chains

2011-05-07 Thread john
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Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris Online Forum Event :: April 14th at 9am PT

2011-03-25 Thread John Weekley
On 3/24/2011 12:20 PM, Glynn Foster wrote: On 24/03/2011, at 12:10 AM, Bob Palowoda wrote: To Register for this FREE event, please go to: ttp://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=298093&s=1&k=12D718A68226 85EE6AD2390FC381A7AE&partnerref=opensolaris Oh darn. I just installed Firefox 4.0 with the devel

[osol-discuss] 503 service unavailable

2011-03-20 Thread john kroll
I've tried several different times and after login server gives back this message. I've been trying a schillix 0.7.2 install, 61 services fail reason method $SMF_EXIT_ERR_FATAL. Advises to see http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS but my request fails at login. Is this because oracle has suspended this

Re: [osol-discuss] libc thread failure: _thread_setschedparam_main() fails

2011-03-19 Thread John Martin
struct queue *chunk_que; chunk_que = spm_normal_malloc(sizeof(struct queue) * nqueues); pthread_mutex_init(&que->mutex, NULL); pthread_mutex_lock(&que->mutex); //The error occurs here! Go check your test program. It is not doing what you think it is. Check the return code from your call to

Re: [osol-discuss] sort options

2011-03-18 Thread John Martin
On 03/18/11 08:18 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: I think sort(1) needs a couple of new (as of the last time I looked at an OpenSolaris man page) options: -C (upper case letter C): same as -c but explicitly silent. This should comply with the latest SUS/XPG, and reconcile the difference betwee

Re: [osol-discuss] What pkg is my command in.

2011-03-10 Thread John Martin
On 03/10/11 10:26 AM, Mike DeMarco wrote: How do you go about finding which package the command you want to add is in. pkg search /usr/bin/resize ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-25 Thread John Martin
On 02/25/11 04:23 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: I dont have a cluster or specialized hardware at home, to do heavy calculations. I can buy Nvidia card to do calculations, but Solaris does not support OpenCL nor CUDA nor anything similar - as far as I know. To use graphic cards to do heavy calculati

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-24 Thread John Martin
On 02/24/11 03:14 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote: Thanks for the tips, but I also need to do heavy development and run heavy calculations. So I need a beefy CPU above all. But I prefer if it has low power requirements. That is the reason Sandybridge is what I prefer. I have to wait and see how the 3D

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-24 Thread John Martin
On 02/24/11 06:50 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: If I can replace all computers at home, with SunRays I have saved power. Say each PC uses 100 watt at idle, that could be 300Watt at idle. If I replace them with a SunRay server that idles at 50watt, I have saved lots of power. I want the server to be

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-23 Thread John Martin
On 02/23/11 12:46 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 02/23/11 02:56 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: I thought 3D driver for Sandbybridge was on it's way? Unlike the nvidia driver, which is available for download separate from the OS, Minor nit. The driver available for download from nvidia.com c

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-21 Thread John Martin
On 02/21/11 09:56 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: Eric, Intel Sandybridge, does it support ECC? I heard that Intel does not allow hardware targeted to home users support ECC. Only server stuff supports ECC. http://www.evga.com/support/motherboard/ The eVGA X58 motherboards allow Xeon CPUs with ECC me

Re: [osol-discuss] root pw

2011-01-22 Thread john g4lt
The proper answer here is "there isn't a root password, root is a role" On 1/4/11, Deric Kwok wrote: > Hi > > I forget the pw root. > > How can I change it? > > ls there single user mode as linux when booting? How > > Thank you > ___ > opensolaris-discu

Re: [osol-discuss] Fan speed control in OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana

2011-01-18 Thread John Martin
Also have you been able to tell which fan is spinning fast? If there is a fan on the graphics card, which model? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Fan speed control in OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana

2011-01-18 Thread John Martin
On 01/18/11 09:03 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote: Copying the text of PowerTOP destroys the formatting so I supply a png of it instead. At present I'm running a virtual machine (with Windows) and Gnome but I get the same fan speed even when there is nothing running. rge#1 is producing a lot of inter

Re: [osol-discuss] Fan speed control in OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana

2011-01-18 Thread John Martin
On 01/18/11 08:10 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote: I have noticed that when booting my system in Windows the fans are rotating at a much lower speed than in OSOL/OI. I even tested running some heavy applications for the duration of a couple of hours and still the fans were lower. The conclusion I dr

Re: [osol-discuss] Mounting hard drive NTFS

2011-01-18 Thread john kroll
I think these commands have to do with gparted app. The mount seems to be for that app within the partition so the data is viewed as used or unused no interaction with individual files. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discus

Re: [osol-discuss] Need coaching about used equipment

2011-01-13 Thread John Martin
On 01/12/11 08:58 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: If you care about video/audio, I'd look at the used workstation stuff. It has less hard drive bays, but better audio and video capacity. FWIW, some (most?) newer NVIDIA cards come with an audio device that works with the Solaris audio plumbing. The au

Re: [osol-discuss] onnv-gate and b151

2010-12-26 Thread john kroll
>That is, only providing that Oracle is ready to release ON consolidation code, to its customers and followers, at the times for release and to use it as strong major selling point. You didn't get the memo looks like oracle is commercializing its own zfs and not interested in any non-profit found

Re: [osol-discuss] X11 With Multi thread

2010-12-15 Thread John Martin
On 12/15/10 12:55 PM, Debabrata Debroy wrote: Hi I want to use X11 in a multi threaded Application . I have attached a code that I have written to achieve it .Basically From main function I am calling a callback function fun() which will create a thread add(). From the thread I am again

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express: xterm very slow

2010-12-15 Thread John Martin
On 12/15/10 09:38 AM, Claus Assmann wrote: Oh well, maybe I put an nVidia graphics card into the box again and see how that works (it caused some problems with X and the selection of a graphics card before). Details? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing l

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-12-14 Thread John Martin
On 12/12/10 01:29 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: The mouse being reported as going online and offline several times a second seems like the much bigger problem. On 12/10/10 01:13 PM, user124 wrote: My G9 work in 2009.06 from snv_111b to snv_117 normally, but from snv_118 till nowadays builds i

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-12-13 Thread John Martin
On 12/13/10 09:26 AM, user124 wrote: I think i guessed how to solve this problem. Find the same problem with another mouse and the solution was is to connect mouse through USB hub. Active or passive hub? (Possible power issue) ___ opensolaris-discus

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-12-09 Thread John Martin
On 12/ 9/10 04:04 PM, user124 wrote: Dec 9 22:55:38 solaris usba: [ID 349649 kern.info] Logitech G9 Laser Mouse 0719BBECD10029 Dec 9 22:55:38 solaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] hid0 is /p...@0,0/pci1043,8...@13/dev...@1/keybo...@0 Dec 9 22:55:38 solaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info]

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-12-09 Thread John Martin
On 12/ 9/10 03:37 PM, user124 wrote: Maybe someone would answer to my question after viewing this listing? Your last questions were: Should i have root for viewing /var/adm/messages when i boot from live CD? What is the root password when i boot from live CD? The last one was answered

Re: [osol-discuss] songbird bug

2010-12-08 Thread John Martin
On 12/ 8/10 04:26 PM, Paul Gress wrote: I also just tried my Songbird, and get the same repeating of the second song with Sol Ex 11 b151a. Reported on other platforms also: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/songbird_repeats_every_second_song_endless

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-12-07 Thread John Martin
On 12/ 7/10 01:41 PM, user124 wrote: Anybody? Any ideas? I looked for a G9 in local stores but only the G9x is now available. The web page you sent points to a link that implies the G9 is EOL, replaced by the G9x. When you boot LiveCD are there any interesting USB messages in /var/adm/message

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-12-06 Thread John Martin
On 12/ 6/10 07:45 AM, user124 wrote: 8 usb_mid 1 device 046d.c048 G9 Laser Mouse I looked in local computer stores and all I could find was a Logitech G9x: http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0317173 Does this look the same or can you p

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-11-27 Thread John Martin
On 11/26/10 10:22 AM, user124 wrote: Need some time to show you listing of this command because, sometimes, it's hard to work in user interface without mouse. What does the output on b111b show? That will help identify the correct model. ___ opensol

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-11-27 Thread john kroll
> and can't work in 151a? What was changed? I've had opensolaris 2009.06,openindiana,korona 4.4.5,and snv130 all installed and working in three different machines in multi-boot situation. None will even boot up solaris 11 express live on cd. Error 25 on all didn't have time to look at other st

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-11-25 Thread John Martin
On 11/25/10 02:34 PM, user124 wrote: Hi all, I've found myself having problems with my Logitech G9 laser mouse on Solaris Express 11. The cursor won't move, and the lights on the mouse keep flashing (rather than lighting solidly as they should). Mouse worked perfect on Solaris 2009.06 (111b), b

Re: [osol-discuss] genunix wiki spammed

2010-11-25 Thread john kroll
http://www.genunix.org/ seems to be unaffected by http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] X11 XtAppAddTimeOut is not working properly.

2010-11-22 Thread John Martin
On 11/22/10 07:13 AM, Debabrata Debroy wrote: Hi John it is working fine with the changes .Can you please tell what will be the performance impact of this The system clock tick rate gets bumped from 100Hz (10mS) to 1000Hz (1mS), so the system load handling the clock interrupt will go up

Re: [osol-discuss] X11 XtAppAddTimeOut is not working properly.

2010-11-22 Thread John Martin
On 11/22/10 12:25 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: I believe Linux defaults to a higher resolution timer, something you can enable system-wide on Solaris, ... Just as an experiment to verify, in /etc/system add: set hires_tick = 1 and reboot. ___ open

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris 11 express download

2010-11-21 Thread john kroll
Thank you for your response. I really don't want to get into any copyright infringement stuff this is just a hobby/enthusiast type of thing for me. First of all I would think Oracle has enough factory installed hardware/software matched code to produce an extremely large product base. The live C

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris 11 express download

2010-11-20 Thread john kroll
Thanks for your reply. I did actually chat with two people during the process the first was researching the problem but I ran short of time the second wanted me to try with IE but I was booted into openindiana.Creating new account did not work with windows/IE either. I think Sun Developer Netwo

[osol-discuss] solaris 11 express download

2010-11-20 Thread john kroll
I can still log into wikis.sun.com dashboard actions: https://identity.sun.com/amserver/UI/Login?org=self_registered_users&program=sdn For some reason oracle creating a new account always fails wanting another password. Tried different passwords and even my msn live email no luck. Is there an unre

Re: [osol-discuss] Map snv_ versions into release versions

2010-11-15 Thread John Weekley
;OpenSolaris development build 134", while ON source is available up to 147 and other distributions are based on the newer source. -Albert Looks like the latest "Express" version is build 151 John ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Quick question about the future

2010-10-31 Thread john kroll
> LISA is a conference. Not sure how TM/2 is related to the topic. Sorry that's a speculation on pt 3 of an article : http://www.lisa.org/globalizationinsider/2010/07/is_2010_the_yea.html -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-disc

Re: [osol-discuss] Quick question about the future

2010-10-31 Thread john kroll
> FYI, at LISA this year there is a whole track on Solaris 11 Express;) I really don't know that much about LISA but TM/2 source seems to have activity with opentm2. http://www.opentm2.org/home -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensol

Re: [osol-discuss] No network/Internet

2010-10-23 Thread john kroll
> I am right now running OpenSolaris 2010.03, Public release or home/build ?? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] No network/Internet

2010-10-17 Thread John Martin
On 10/17/10 08:50 AM, Jürgen Keil wrote: As far as I understand it, the Broadcom AC131 is the PHY chip attached at the nVidia MCP61 network controller. The nVidia MCP61 ethernet controller should be handled by the Solaris nge driver. The device driver utility is reporting that the nge driver w

Re: [osol-discuss] No network/Internet

2010-10-17 Thread John Martin
On 10/16/10 01:13 PM, Jürgen Keil wrote: j...@opensolaris:~$ ifconfig nge0 ifconfig: status: SIOCGLIFFLAGS: nge0: no such interface nVidia MCP61 should work in build 73 or newer: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6497473 Is the nge driver matter here? The origin

Re: [osol-discuss] Quick question about the future

2010-10-14 Thread john kroll
> What recent builds? The publicly released builds for community development ?? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-10-10 Thread john kroll
If you want to take the bet off people and go even further back than 7-15-2010,their were only two key assets http://www.oracle.com/sun/letter.html . -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@op

Re: [osol-discuss] C programming, invalid argc value

2010-10-05 Thread John Martin
On 10/ 5/10 02:04 PM, Jürgen Keil wrote: Which compiler, compiler version, gdb version did you use? What compilation flags? What does the test program look like? Using Opensolaris b134, gcc 3.4.3, gdb 6.8, a simple "hello, world" type test program, and compilation options "-g -O" it works for m

Re: [osol-discuss] dtcalc grabs mouse and won't let go

2010-09-29 Thread John Martin
On 09/29/10 12:07 PM, Mike DeMarco wrote: Can't find a way to set the number of decimal places in galculator Calculator -> Preferences -> Show N decimal places ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] now seems official- OpenSolaris name retired

2010-09-21 Thread john kroll
So has OpenSolaris Tm retired or opensolaris the hostname retired ?? Or is the bet still on open -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] NetApp and Oracle settle patent dispute over ZFS

2010-09-13 Thread John Martin
On 09/13/10 08:22 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: But in any case, patents are anachronistic. Patents have been created to protect inventions made by single personss against big companies 200 years ago. Patents are now perverted by the big companies against the original intention.

Re: [osol-discuss] Tor for opensolaris

2010-09-08 Thread John Thompson
e http://pkg.opensolaris.org/pending/ > # pkg image-update > > - output, please Pending... this seems to be taking quite a while. > Obviously you did not update your system to /dev Entirely likely; I am new to opensolaris, coming from a linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD background. -- -J

Re: [osol-discuss] Tor for opensolaris

2010-09-07 Thread John Thompson
solidation/sfw/sfw-incorporation installed: Pkg SUNWmeld: Optional min_version: 1.1.5.1,5.11-0.111 max version: 1.1.5.1,5.11-0.111 defined by: pkg:/entire -- -John (j...@os2.dhs.org) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolar

Re: [osol-discuss] Tor for opensolaris

2010-09-06 Thread John Thompson
On 09/06/2010 01:18 AM, Gmail solarg wrote: > On 09/ 6/10 05:00 AM, John Thompson wrote: >> Ok, fine. When I do that I am told "checking for libevent directory... >> configure: WARNING: Could not find a linkable libevent." So I try: >> >> # pkg install li

Re: [osol-discuss] Tor for opensolaris

2010-09-05 Thread John Thompson
On 2010-09-05, Gary Driggs wrote: > On Sep 5, 2010, at 11:15 AM, John Thompson wrote: > >> Anything else I can do? > > Yes, you could compile & install from source; > http://www.torproject.org/download-unix.html.en Ok, fine. When I do that I am told "c

[osol-discuss] Tor for opensolaris

2010-09-05 Thread John Thompson
e catalogs: SUNWtor Anything else I can do? -- -John (j...@os2.dhs.org) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana - what comes closest to it?

2010-09-02 Thread john kroll
> Would that be illumos gate or open indiana? ig + oi = on ?? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana - what comes closest to it?

2010-08-31 Thread john kroll
>I think we all should put our foot down and support illumos I couldn't find an install cd but I guess here's the project build - http://trochejen.blogspot.com/2010/08/illumos-building-instructions.html - -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana - what comes closest to it?

2010-08-29 Thread john kroll
"the real thing (TM)" project ?? +1 Unfortunately, Oracle might not like the either or'ness of it . and never have to wonder if this is still internal development use or already commercial ?? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] When's source included?

2010-08-26 Thread John Thompson
pen source legalities. If > not, please feel free to correct me. :) Well,it depends on the license. There are several open source licenses out there; some are more restrictive than others. -- -John (j...@os2.dhs.org) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] help me ----how to install opensolrias live cd for sparc

2010-08-25 Thread John swing
i have tried to install opensolrias live cd for sparc for some times,but i failed.it may be to the problem - boot errors.i don't know which one disk to boot.who can tell me? or tell me the boot instructions. thank you for your suggestions as well as your view. -- This message posted from open

[osol-discuss] Old News ?

2010-08-24 Thread john kroll
Old news ?? http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100823/tc_pcworld/dontcountonoracletokeepopenofficeorgalive -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] The last of the 5000?

2010-08-22 Thread John Plocher
Since it seams the website team is effectively gone (see Elaine and Derek's goodbye messages elsewhere), it may be hard to pull something like this together. Instead, how about a flickr tag ("#opensolaris"?) so anyone can post their own pictures and mashup an image stream? -Joh

Re: [osol-discuss] When's source included?

2010-08-22 Thread John Plocher
export' or 'hg merge' as appropriate). An interested developer could then grab the common/unchanged sources from the same place you did, apply your changes and build their own copy. The goal is to make it so that someone else could build on your changes in the same way you built on the w

Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-22 Thread John Plocher
use you no longer have to pay the cost of development. Of course, after 24 to 36 months of coasting, you will be dead, but given the Street's myopic focus and short term memory, who cares? Just buy some other company and start everything over again... -John __

Re: [osol-discuss] -Graphiccard Support- avaible soon?

2010-08-16 Thread John Martin
On 08/16/10 05:26 AM, Matthias Pfützner wrote: John, it's build 134 he's using, and that has that bug... Not on all machines, but on most... Understood, but I got the impression the need to disable graphics boot mode happened after loading the NVIDIA driver, implying on this system

Re: [osol-discuss] -Graphiccard Support- avaible soon?

2010-08-15 Thread John Martin
On 08/15/10 01:22 PM, MOKE wrote: Yes it works great. Thank you very much ;-). this step by step tutorial very clearly and easy. While booting I have to edit the Bootloader and change from graphic loader to text loader. I would consider needing to disable graphics mode a bug, unless this is ju

Re: [osol-discuss] -Graphiccard Support- avaible soon?

2010-08-14 Thread John Martin
On 08/14/10 05:22 PM, MOKE wrote: Hellö My Question is: Are there any projects for NVIDIA Graphic Cards? I am using my Leptop Lenovo W510 with Nvidia FX880M but O-Sol doesent support this GraphicCard now.With Vesa drivers it works but it was not nice ;-( As long as Lenovo uses device id 0xa3c

Re: [osol-discuss] Where too now?

2010-08-14 Thread john kroll
I don't think the IPS repos will disappear soon. In that memo it was stated they are going to try to get a migration path from Opensolaris to Solaris 11 Express. So until that bridge is built, I believe they will keep the current repo going. So now Solaris 11 keeps the tm opensolaris hostname

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-05 Thread john kroll
Oh, please. None of this is "serious". I'm sure we can come up with a real bunch of interesting names, but being *serious* isn't relevant. Irreverent, maybe. :-) trademark pending ?? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread John Martin
On 08/ 4/10 12:04 PM, Paul Gress wrote: When I read the Hardware Compatability notes for PTC Pro-Engineer WF5, it states there are no current plans for its next generation WF6 MCAD product to be developed on Solaris 10. This means to me, ... Carefu

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread John Martin
On 08/ 4/10 11:24 AM, Paul Gress wrote: Yes I believe that would be true if the OS was developed for Workstations. The only commitment I see from Oracle is Servers and Databases. Would CUDA help there? Large scale GPGPU deployment is being done on servers. _

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread John Martin
On 08/ 4/10 09:40 AM, Matthias Pfützner wrote: But, like Adrian Cockcroft did twitter last night: Mr. Ellison is backing Solaris. Pick your horse. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread John Martin
On 08/ 4/10 05:27 AM, Matthias Pfützner wrote: John Martin, any ideas? As this also would work for the "standard" Solaris, because at least, nVIDIA already does provide the drivers for Solaris... I don't see how Illumos provides added incentive (ignoring potential open versus

Re: [osol-discuss] unable to break out of X

2010-08-02 Thread John Martin
On 08/ 2/10 03:40 PM, Allen Jasewicz wrote: It is really weird, I am in single user mode, I have imported rpool to /a as read/write and I am unable to find an xorg.conf file on the /a mount. It was working and I wanted to make adjustments to the display and typed in kdmconfig while windows wa

Re: [osol-discuss] unable to break out of X

2010-08-02 Thread John Martin
On 08/ 2/10 03:40 PM, Allen Jasewicz wrote: It is really weird, I am in single user mode, I have imported rpool to /a as read/write and I am unable to find an xorg.conf file on the /a mount. It was working and I wanted to make adjustments to the display and typed in kdmconfig while windows wa

Re: [osol-discuss] no more news articles from me

2010-08-01 Thread John Weekley
On 8/1/10 8:19 PM, Sean wrote: Remember that those who complain are often the loudest. I imagine there is a majority who have no strong opinions on the matter. +1 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Or th

Re: [osol-discuss] network card driver issue with hp-z400 workstation

2010-08-01 Thread John Martin
On 08/ 1/10 11:55 AM, john george wrote: hi i have installed opensolaris 2009.06 in hp-z400... You need to download the bcme 57xx driver from Broadcom. http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtreme_server.php ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] So it is true about the Media Pack

2010-08-01 Thread john kroll
http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/rescue/2010-July/129405.html So there we go ?? So do not overstep a term of use with regard to free license ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@openso

[osol-discuss] network card driver issue with hp-z400 workstation

2010-08-01 Thread john george
, John -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Dell and HP to Certify and Resell all Three Oracle Operating Systems on their x86 Server Computers

2010-07-30 Thread John Martin
On 07/30/10 04:27 PM, Norbert P. Copones wrote: now... where is mr. morgan of theregister? he just said oracle spikes hp oem contract. hope the contract spiking fud ends here. To be fair to TPM, he did a follow-up story referencing his original "spikes" story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle shuts down open source test servers

2010-07-29 Thread John Plocher
s of that partnership now that Oracle has taken over. -John ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-26 Thread John Plocher
ional features", pkgadd and friends are pretty limited; an uncharitable person might even say a packaging system without the ability to upgrade/patch a system is rather pointless. -John On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Joerg Schilling < joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: &

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-25 Thread John Plocher
e with way too many things that had come to depend on the project private contents file. There were proposals to cache the file in memory (ala nscd), to make it a special kernel driver (ala /etc/mnttab) and others, none of which (IIRC) made it past the proposal/prototy

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread John Plocher
x27;t* have to listen to those who simply chatter; why do you suppose so few developers hang out on OpenSolaris-discuss? We put up with Joerg because he votes with his code; what are you voting with? :-) -John ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro mailing list

2010-07-23 Thread John Plocher
A reminder that we *do* have a distribution community here, with a distribution-discuss alias that is a good place to hold "community distro" conversations... http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/distribution-discuss -John ___ o

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

2010-07-22 Thread John Martin
On 07/21/10 06:45 PM, Aleksey Cheusov wrote: 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 pro

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 driv

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

2010-07-20 Thread John Martin
On 07/19/10 07:40 PM, Aleksey Cheusov wrote: 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

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

2010-07-20 Thread John Martin
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 cpudetect.c. Maybe someone could request pushing this to the upstream co

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-20 Thread John Plocher
et to a prompt, then who the hell cares about what kind of packaging system is there *THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN USE*? Let's get the basics working first, and be as open as we can towards others. -John ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2010-07-20 Thread John Martin
On 07/20/10 03:09 AM, Aleksey Cheusov wrote: then no. Results are the same. The same jerks and the same CPU Idle time over 80%. In additional while playing nature_704x576_25Hz_1500kbits.h264 mplayer said No pts value from demuxer to use for frame! pts after filters MISSING No pts va

Re: [osol-discuss] NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS on build 134

2010-07-19 Thread John Martin
On 07/19/10 10:25 PM, Doug Poland wrote: Thanks for the info. I checked out the instructions in the URL you supplied and have a follow-up question. How do I get the OS up to build 139? If I only need the new driver 195.36.24, how do I make pkg fetch that particular version? You don't need t

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

2010-07-19 Thread John Martin
On 07/19/10 07:40 PM, Aleksey Cheusov wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to setup mplayer with VDPAU on OpenSolaris v_134 on Atom/ION-based Acer Aspire Revo 3600. I've compiled it successfully from source and run the following command mplayer -vo vdpau \ -vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdp

Re: [osol-discuss] NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS on build 134

2010-07-19 Thread John Martin
On 07/19/10 02:44 PM, Doug Poland wrote: I ran pkg image-update and am now running svn_134. Xorg still uses the vesa driver and performance is worse than 2009.06. I did some googling and came across a thread (http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=120352) in which someone suggested t

Re: [osol-discuss] NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS on build 134

2010-07-19 Thread John Martin
On 07/19/10 02:44 PM, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm very new to OpenSolaris but am quite familiar with FreeBSD. I have a box with an NVIDIA G96 GeForce 9500 GS. I installed 2009.06 and the installer choose the Xorg vesa driver. I have a working X desktop but colors and performance are unappea

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-19 Thread John Plocher
before we run. It seems rather pointless if we don't even try crawling or walking, but instead sit in front of our computers and bash each other about how things would be better if only we could run in different directions... -John On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: &

Re: [osol-discuss] Build 134

2010-07-18 Thread john kroll
Is your intent to change the opensolaris hostname or leave it run as default ?? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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