[osol-discuss] Newbie Needing Help Please -- trying out Opensolaris: networks, USB drive

2009-04-14 Thread Rong Shen
Hello: I am trying out Opensolaris. I had been familiar with Unix through FreeBSD. I received the Opensolaris Live CD through the Sun Free CD program, and I was trying to run Opensolaris. I have Dell Dimension E521, with an added PCIe Nvidia 8600GT, which overrides the original onboard video c

[osol-discuss] Newbie needs help please.

2009-06-10 Thread Rong Shen
Hi there: I am running a live OpenSolaris CD on my existing Windows Vista machine installed on Dell Dimension E521. OpenSolaris live CD does not have driver for the onboard BroadCom 4401 ethernet device. I downloaded the NIC driver for it on the hard drive, but I am unable to find and conseque

[osol-discuss] Newbie need help please.

2009-06-27 Thread Rong Shen
Hello: I installed a new Seagate 1.5T hard drive and installed OpenSolaris2009.06. Everything runs fine. But after I installed sun-cc development suite and gcc and VirtualBox, I checked "zpool status," I was surprised to find out that there were "permanent" errors "ZFS-8000-8A" in the file rp

[osol-discuss] X or Gnome dies after logout or Ctrl-Alt-Backspace -- what to do?

2009-07-23 Thread Rong Shen
Hi all: I bought a new Dell Studio 540 with 8 gig RAM and Intel G54 graphics chipset, and I installed OpenSolaris 2009.06. All is well except that after I logout, about 30% of the time (not every time), the monitor will go off and says "no signal" before it goes off. Same if I do ctrl-alt-backs