just wondering if you have to re-download and burn the 4 iso's every time you
want to get the latest nevada build or if there is a simpler way. thanks!
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thanks for the advice. man i can't believe there isn't dvorak support built
in! it so easy to do on linux. i guess the demand for it just isn't there
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thanks all! i'll have to try that next time upgrade time rolls around. i
chickened out and got the DVD images and burnt my first DVD-- woohoo! it was
so easy! 'cdrw -i nevada.iso' i found a rewritable DVD laying around and it
worked like a champ. i didn't mind so much knowing that i'd be a
hmm, that didn't work. there are two directories under keymaps-- one is for PC
keyboards and one is for sun keyboards i believe. anyway i put it in the
type_101 folder but it didn't seem to have any effect. however there is a file
called kbd_layouts in the folder that enumerates all the layou
i was following the instructions over at blastwave and it said you could get
default PATHs set up by adding them to /etc/default/login and /etc/default/su.
i did that and it works when i su, but my normal user only has this:
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/etc:.
what am i doing wrong? the files have
the solution when I have one.
But if you have any suggestions about how to get rid of it PLEASE post it here.
It is being told to look for it by something, now the trick is to find out
what is telling it to look, and tell it to stop.
Thank You for your time,
Patrick
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Thank you both for your reply's. I am at work right now so I cannot test the
cures. When I get home tonight I will follow your suggestions, and post what
happens. I am currently trying to convince my employer to switch to an
alternative OS, other than the one they u$e right now. Solaris, Deb
I meant to hit spell check rather than post message on my previous reply.
Sorry for the mistakes.
Patrick
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well it's been a while since i've last had the upgrade bug, but it seems to be
coming back, so i'm looking to get a new machine to run opensolaris and linux
and i've set my pricerange as between $2k - $4k.
not sure if i want a laptop or desktop though. as far as laptops go the
ferrari 4000 see
Hi,
I like the idea, but not the use of /usr/ports. How about /opt/ports?
But to what end ? and with what back end compilers ? i think that
/usr/ports might be a bit limiting, and a bit -old- in the direction
of package managment, there's portage, and the debian package
managment system, even
i just did my first nightly build on the 20060616 code-- took just over 5hrs on
my ferrari 4006-- and now i see the 06/06 release of solaris 10 up for download.
so my noobish question is: is there any reason for me to re-install using that
CD/DVD set? i figure one reason would be ZFS root files
thanks casper! i started with an 05/06 nevada DVD set (snv_38) and updated
that to snv_41 when i built from the 20060619 sources. i'm downloading the JDS
vermillion_43 packages at the moment, so hopefully with those i'll be as up to
date as the nevada version of S10 06/06.
cheers
pat
This
i've been running solaris 10 on my ferrari 4000 for some time now and i can't
help but notice that there are times when the desktop interaction gets bogged
down, sometimes slowing to a halt-- the mouse pointer becomes very sluggish or
sometimes stops moving all together. i'v been running variou
ok, that sounds logical, but i just did a dmesg and i get this pertaining to
the CD drive:
Jul 10 22:54:59 desiderata genunix: [ID 640982 kern.info] ATAPI device at
targ 0, lun 0 lastlun 0x0
Jul 10 22:54:59 desiderata genunix: [ID 846691 kern.info] model
MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ-845S
Jul
I've searched through the forums and the bug reports for additional information
on
this issue but there are no matches.
I'm running build 45 of express on x86 and dtmail crashes (segfaults) when
sending mail.
For reference, I have the same issue on Solaris 10 x86. I posted a similar
message in
well i finally got my tweaked ferrari 4000 up and running properly with its new
ML-44. i was able to decipher the powerstates and create two more entries for
2.2 and 2.4 GHz. the system idles at 800MHz around 42C (up a bit from the
ML-40) and the gnome panel applet shows 8.5 watts. when it ra
i don't know if i'd call it a "complete and total flop"-- i hear the newer
chips are pretty stout pieces. they're pretty popular in the HPC space from
what i've heard-- they've got a good number of systems in the top500:
http://top500.org/sublist?edit%5Blist_id%5D=27&edit%5Bcountry_id%5D=all&edi
just wondering if there is any free software to back-up and keep up-to-date
certain folders on my hard drive to external hard drive? basically i need to
be able to plug in my external USB HD and be able to tell which files have
changed and which files are new and copy them down.
i thought abou
thanks guys! i'll be sure and give it a whirl tonight. :) opensolaris.org
rocks!!
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I have to hand it to the sun guys n gals-- i just installed Solaris Express
(snv_46) onto my new Sony VAIO SZ381P and it was easier than installing the
crap from redmond- solaris has certainly come along way! so now i guess i
gotta go put my ferrari 4000 up for sale on ebay ;)
i was most impre
thats awesome! i'm glad you had some good luck this time around-- it does
indeed seem like they make huge strides with every release. i remember when i
got my ferrari 4000 back in apirl that you had to rememember to delete libvbe
before you launched X or it would hard lock the machine, i don't
unfortunately the marvell drivers only work in 32bit mode. :( the installer
exited with an error on my 64bit install.
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oh, cool-- i never really noticed any functionality missing when i had to
delete that library, but i did notice that the gdm login screen fonts looked
nicer when i was able to leave it in place.
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sweet, thanks casper! i'll give them a try. i was bummed thinking i was only
going to be able to use wireless-- well, hopefully i'll be able to as soon as i
swap in my CM9
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doh! there seems to be something wrong with gnome on this release-- whenever i
click the "start" button i get this message:
"i've detected a panel already running, and will now exit"
i was able to get a nautilus window and launch a dtterm, and then from there
launch a gnome-terminal, but jds i
so i was installing the nvidia drivers for my geForce go 7400 and when i was
tweaking the config file i added the line i usually put in my linux Xorg
configs:
(put in keyboard section)
Option "XKeyboardLayout" "dvorak"
when i restarted X lo and behold gdm was using a dvorak layout!!! i remember
just got the skge driver up and running-- worked fine after i fixed the alias
created by pkgadd. here's some stuff i found useful:
http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp/entry/how_do_i_find_out
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/driver-discuss/2006-June/000312.html
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sounds like a cool project-- my new vaio laptop came with a cingular sim card
that plugs in behind the battery-- i'd love to be able to use it under solaris.
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amazingly enough i'm going to have some more free time on my hands in the next
couple of weeks so i'd like to try and dive into getting some of the devices on
my vaio sz laptop working under solaris like they do under fedora 5.
i've configured tons of linux kernels by downloading the source and
thanks haik! i'll check it out-- plus i've ordered a copy of the 2nd edition
of solaris internals, so maybe i'll be able to get up to speed on solaris
quickly. (crosses fingers)
i've run the nightly script (following the blastwave how-to build opensolaris
guide) before, but haven't poked aroun
hi tommy,
i have been asking similar questions because i'm trying to port some drivers
from linux to solaris as well- as far as the first question- where to put the
kernel modules, i was told /kernel/drv.
btw, i'm just down the road from you (i'm in boulder) ;)
good luck!
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i'm replacing the stock HD in my vaio notebook with 2 100GB 7200 RPM hitachi--
yes it can hold 2 HDs. ;) i was thinking about doing some sort of striping
setup to get even more performance, but i am hardly a storage expert, so i'm
not sure if it is better to set them up to do sofware RAID or t
I tried to install a more recent build on that M/B (b131) and the graphics
seems to workok, but I get serious problems with the onboard NIC the assigned
gani driver could not attach
dmesg...
[ID 217474 kern.info] gani0: ilr 0x010a
[ID 825931 kern.info] gani0: ddiregsmap_setup failed (ret:-1
I stored the output of prtconf -pv at opensolaris.pastebin
prtconf -pv -> http://opensolaris.pastebin.ca/177
prtpicl -v -> http://opensolaris.pastebin.ca/179
prtdiag -lv-> http://opensolaris.pastebin.ca/182
please let me know if I can supply further information
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mac_ver 671088640
I will happily act as "remotable test dummy" and gather all necessary
information.
If someone (maybe Murayama-san) would like to take a look at this.
It is also possible to provide a remote ssh root shell to this box.
with kindest regards,
patrick.
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could it be that the problem is located at the SAS side?
it look that mpt driver is complaining. This should be on the LSI HBA side.
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net access
still work
reasonably fast, by having a local storage to put their changes in
instead of
waiting >1 minute for each commit - sync can happen later, after work
where waiting
is not an issue or when getting fast net access again.
o that
server - or to fork"),
where write access may require that you have a good relationship to
those managing the server.
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talking about svk. svn isn't a lightweight, and svk
layers even more on top of it.
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onto
a system, it can
be troublesome to get everyone off it again. IF svk is really the best
long term solution,
then it should be used, but so far, it looks too fragile to me (as do
most alternatives,
though usually for different reasons than svk)
patrick mauritz
a good thing -no idea why opensolaris should be held to a
different standard..
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Hey Gman,
Way to go.
We should also get a site like the linux-counter [0] started to keep track of
the process of OpenSolaris taking over the world ;->
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ualitative aspect of the community.
I hope to start posting some measures in around a month or so: however for the
the next two weeks I shall be offline, so feel free to jam my inbox with
ideas...
Patrick
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nt to do - rant like a madman over that? there are
other people in the grand opensource meta community that do a better job
at playing the madman than you.
adapt or fork - it's quite hard to convince people by annoying them.
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having a policy of building in a clean tree (to avoid trouble due
to forgotten dependencies), or when building autogenerated code, without
the need for cmp || mv hacks
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nd in future primarily post figures there.
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On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 22:14, Felix Schulte wrote:
> any comments?
see http://www.openbios.org/~oxygene/opensolaris.txt.bz2 for what
changed in the various source drops (06-12, 07-01, 07-20, 08-18)
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Hi,
I think that Jim G is already working this based on Simon's input
As I recall:
-mailing list for announcements
-moderated
-moderator would also post most important announcements to opensolaris.org
Patrick
Bob Palowoda wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>With the traffic that&#
ould need extra tools. I posted the changelog for the
purpose of showing that there is indeed development in the publically
available trees.
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In my opinion, a big part of the value of this community will be that it
helps to explain the relevance of OpenSolaris to the wider Linux
community. Extending the scope beyond Linux immigrants could threaten
that.
Patrick
Stephen Hahn wrote:
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any of its
distributions, but are very interested in open source and very much
alive Unix-like OSes. I don't intend to exclude the "needy" with my
comment though, so maybe Linux-immigrant is too narrow a conception.
Patrick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my opinion, a big part of the val
stile
act, but a no-strings welcome mat for the agnostic and the interested
Linux user.
Saying that, it sounds like a different idea to the opportunity you see
here, and it probabaly isn't a good idea to do both as it would cause a
lot of confusion, so I am happy to retract.
regard
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 15:57, Bill Bradford wrote:
> Open Minds, Closed Video Format!
>
> Can we get it in MPEG (1 or 2) or DivX?
how about theora (or vp3, in case you like something "stable")?
patrick mauritz
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always work, but raises chances significantly)
- I had to disable the usb controller (loading
c, there are many things to consider: eg. that
pkgsrc builds basically your whole userland again (at least the large
chunks: yet another perl installation, yet another python, ..)
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Hi,
For those interested, Adam Leventhal was interviewed on the British
podcasting Linux / open source radio show "LugRadio" this week. He
discusses OpenSolaris, and how it contrasts with Linux.
You can hear the interview here:
http://www.lugradio.org/
regard
until they learn to play nice with others; the "I hate people
who work on open source software" mailing list is --> that way.
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> so this kind of reaction is entirely unwarranted.
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also
a talk by Jay Hobson planned on "DTrace on the X.org Server", within the
X.org track, further details to be confirmed.
If you are planning to attend, please do get in touch. I'll be there :)
regards
Patrick
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Accommodation is thin on the ground at CeBIT. If you don't have
accommodation, you should look into travelling in and out on the same day.
Hope to see some of you there.
regards
Patrick
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Subject:[ug-gosug] OpenSolaris @ CeBIT2006
Date: Tue, 21 Feb
gic rather
than reuse code. Would I be able to do that?
I guess a lawyer can give you a usable answer on that one.
maybe there's a driver in one of the BSDs under their license for that
device? that works around incompatibilities in the GPL without a lawyer :)
hi all,
first off let me say what a great resource this forum is-- it's already gotten
me well on my way to switching over to solaris from linux. i'm an ex solaris
user from way back (owned a sparc 20 waaay back in '94 and an ultra5 some time
in the late 90s), but i've been on linux for so lon
. And then people show up that want the same with curl...
how about making the tiny fix (another http header entry) that sends the
real file name (without all the gibberish) to the client?
that http header would look like:
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="real.name"
sun could ever provide.
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dows.
That's probably still true, independent from the above - money can't
hurt the driver situation at the current point.
Regards,
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$ pkginfo -c system |grep -i atheros
system SUNWatheros Atheros 802.11b/g Wireless
NIC Driver
Greetings from Germany,
Patrick
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SUNW* packages only in my build.
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Hi Jörg,
It's here
http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/whitepapers/Sun_Microsystems_OpenSource_Licensing.pdf
Can I ask where that URL came from? I guess it should be updated.
regards
Patrick
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Hi all,
it seems that Simon Phipps whitepaper
http://www.su
It's my fault...I was updating it and I hadn't got round to for a while.
I will try to fix that this week.
thanks for your patience!
Patrick
Doug Scott wrote:
Hey,
Just looking on the front page of the Open Solaris site showed the latest news is dated
"03/09/2007"
Agreed. From the articles in question:
"As we make Solaris more familiar to Linux users, we don't (want to)
lose what makes it more compelling and competitive," Murdock said
MC wrote:
I like to believe that Sun's aim is to make Solaris a better operating system. You must keep your
head
kely), see "ccache internal error" and "unsupported
compiler option", and maybe "not a C/C++ file" categories in the stats
below, it's quite good already.
The cache was on an nfsv4 mount, so with a local cache, things should be
a bit faster.
Regards,
Patrick
ment to my knowledge, but rather, it has been about
facilitating community building up to this point. Indeed, Jim just
convened a lengthy discussion on those lines.
Are you proposing that the OpenSolaris marketing community be
reconstituted for the purpose of product management? (it seems like i
resembles http://www.tux.org/ more than
http://www.linux.org/ or http://www.ubuntu.com.
There is lots of interest in OpenSolaris out there, and I think that we
increasingly need to have a newbie portal or similar.
Patrick
Brian Gupta wrote:
I have started an ongoing personal project to engage my
Brian Gupta schrieb:
It might not be "clicky-bunty" like Linux, but a real IT/CS
professional never needed or used "clicky-bunty" tools to begin with.
And if I read about people running Linux for enterprise workloads and
complaining about lack of "clicky-bunty" in Solaris, I have to ask:
are
olaris user can become
a Linux user with ease, but not vice versa. Do you consider this to be
a strength or a weakness of Linux?
Patrick
UNIX admin wrote:
Those places are
Solaris heavy, in my experience.
What does that tell you?
But there are a lot of places that need a system that
s
side-effect that matters in a significant way (ie.
is there _anything_ that would expect a directory to be generated and
left that way?)
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nux users.
And for those with an interest in the long-term health of the Linux
community, it certainly doesn't seem like a problem, does it?
Isn't this our problem?
Patrick
a b wrote:
Presumably because Linux is easier to use. And you either are smarter
than the average user or h
I think we risk confusing the strength of the admin with a strength of
the platform. Latin scholars make great linguists, after all.
Patrick
Andre van Eyssen wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Patrick Finch wrote:
If I understand correctly, you are saying that a Solaris user can
become a Linux
Hi!
I have read at
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/result.xhtml?url=/newsticker/meldung/90435
that Sun plans to publish version 12 of Sun Studio for Linux and Solaris free
of charge on 4.6.2007 at
http://developer.sun.com/sunstudio
This also then includes again its C/C++ and Fortran Compiler for L
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Today when I hit by mistake ENTER a letter before finishing to type my
password, I witnessed me being logged in anyway. So trying to trim the
end of my password, I found out that only the first eight letters count.
t;
> HTH
>
> Boyd
What about the GUI from the GNOME menu (as root) Administration ->
Network, and then General Settings (second tab), and just change the
hostname there and reboot (this is a 3 month old build).
I didn't read this anywhere, but it *seemed* to work. Any reason why
this wasn't a good idea?
Patrick
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>> The 40% certainly was a "rectum-pluck". I was thinking about a goal for
>> Solaris on the
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 10:45 +0200, Patrick Finch wrote:
>> Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 22:38 -0700, Korey Peters wrote:
>>>>> I think the "40%" was a rectum pluck rather than it
>>>>> being a
Hi,
As far as I know, Developer Edition contains NetBeans and Sun Studio
(that is, they install immediately after Solaris Express) and, as you
point out, the installation is slightly more graphical.
Express gives you the whole GNOME environment.
regards,
Patrick
Bruno wrote:
> He
On 8/5/07, W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I specify my $yourIP when operating as a dhcp client?
>
Use the loopback IP address 127.0.0.1, simply add your hostname to the
existing line in /etc/hosts, beginning with 127.0.0.1 (and ::1 for
IPv6)
Patrick Ale
hives directory, and I think it's cause of
the error shown in the mail_msg.
Can someone give me a guide line as of what I am doing wrong or how I
can fix it?
I am trying to compile on an Athlon 2400XP+ with Sun Studio Pro 12,
which is shipped by default with Nevada 69.
Thanks in advance!
P
n but.. why ship SS12 with SXCE and SXDE when
11 is what you're recommending?
Take care and thanks for the answers,
Patrick Ale
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m there.
Happy playing!
Patrick
Georg-W. Koltermann wrote:
> I'm using Ubuntu Feisty (x86_64). I didn't use particular partition tools,
> just
> Linux fdisk and Solaris fdisk. FYI the hardware is a Dell M65 laptop.
>
> It turned out Solaris seems to reset the MBR an
am pretty sure I was able to layout filesystems with SXDE 68 and 69.
The installer for the "normal" installation is still the java/CDE
installer, is this correct? This is what I actually use for the moment
since it does allow me to lay out file systems..
I hope
15.69MB(2/0/0) 32130
As you can see, the installer happely installs my root partition way
beyond the 1024th cylinder..
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> >
> Sorry, I forgot to check my filters, that should have been
> caiman-discuss only.
I actually filed a bug yesterday :)
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ou'd go to a specific mailing list handling the matter you
want to discuss.
In short: opensolaris-discuss should be used and accepted for any
input regarding opensolaris, for specific or in depth discussions you
may want to and should be able to redirect users NICELY and POLITEL
Hi,
Check out Erwann Chénedé's blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/
regards
Patrick
Rishabh Nagendra wrote:
> Hi there,
> I'm new to Solaris. I have installed Solaris from the DVD labeled "Solaris
> Express Developer Edition".
> I'm used to Linux, so I
Hey all,
Trying to avoid another "what to discuss here and not" thread a quick
and simple question:
Where can I report problems/experiences regarding ONNV gate compiles?
Thankies,
Patrick
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