[osol-discuss] mplayer (blastwave) broken on snv 59 & 60

2007-03-15 Thread Patrick P Korsnick
i think it has something to do with the move to modular Xorg, but i've been trying to run mplayer on both snv_59 (clean install from sxde DVD) and opensolaris_b60 (bfu'd from 59). that package always worked fine on 57. i can start gmplayer and it works until i try and play a movie-- i can go in

[osol-discuss] Re: Build 59 dhcp client oddities

2007-03-09 Thread Patrick P Korsnick
dhcp did this to my hosts file. before i had a /etc/hostname.iwi0 and /etc/dhcp.iwi0 my hosts file looked like this: ::1 localhostloghostdesiderata 127.0.0.1localhostloghostdesiderata i rebooted many times and ran 'ifconfig iwi0 dhcp' many times. networking wo

[osol-discuss] Re: smc hangs nevada 59

2007-03-09 Thread Patrick P Korsnick
hi bart, yes, i tried it three times on my pentium-m laptop. all three times it broke i didn't have any network interface plumbed-- i thought it might be network related. my /etc/hosts file looked like this: ::1localhost loghost 127.0.0.1localhostloghostdesiderata i just tr

[osol-discuss] smc hangs nevada 59

2007-03-09 Thread Patrick P Korsnick
i've launched smc under cde and gnome on a fresh nevada 59 install and it hard locks the machine all 3 times i tried it. has anyone else experienced this? i'm gonna check bugs.opensolaris.org and file a report if i don't see one already. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] when was intel wireless support removed from nevada?

2007-03-09 Thread Patrick P Korsnick
i just installed sxce last night and saw that iwi support was not there-- i know i can get it from the wireless page, but for the last few releases i remember it just being there. was it removed from the standard install image for this build or an earlier one? just curious... This message

[osol-discuss] ZFS on a damaged disk

2006-12-12 Thread Patrick P Korsnick
i have a machine with a disk that has some sort of defect and i've found that if i partition only half of the disk that the machine will still work. i tried to use 'format' to scan the disk and find the bad blocks, but it didn't work. so as i don't know where the bad blocks are but i'd still li

[osol-discuss] correct way to move home directory to ZFS filesystem?

2006-12-06 Thread Patrick P Korsnick
i've done lots of solaris installs in the last year and one thing that i'm still a bit foggy on is moving my user's home directories to a ZFS filesystem. whenever i install a system i use smc to add users and it creates their home directories. i then make ZFS filesystems for each user and move