[osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-15 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
I think Dennis has a good point. We are looking at two issues that should be *really* simple to do something about. - graphic background for grub on install cd/dvd - numlock on by default What do others think? alan. Two concerns: * while the initial appearance and settings should

[osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Neil Corlett
Agreed (as a lapsed sysadmin). It makes a lot of sense that the program do the right thing in the context of the menu presented to the user. That just means keypad 8 2 are up and down, keypad 1 and 2 are the entries. Belenix have managed it after all, so the code must be knocking around.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
Agreed (as a lapsed sysadmin). It makes a lot of sense that the program do the right thing in the context of the menu presented to the user. That just means keypad 8 2 are up and down, keypad 1 and 2 are the entries. Belenix have managed it after all, so the code must be knocking around.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Dennis Clarke wrote: Agreed (as a lapsed sysadmin). It makes a lot of sense that the program do the right thing in the context of the menu presented to the user. That just means keypad 8 2 are up and down, keypad 1 and 2 are the entries. Belenix have managed it after all, so the code must be

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dennis Clarke wrote: Agreed (as a lapsed sysadmin). It makes a lot of sense that the program do the right thing in the context of the menu presented to the user. That just means keypad 8 2 are up and down, keypad 1 and 2 are the entries. Belenix have managed it after all, so the code must be

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Dennis Clarke wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: Agreed (as a lapsed sysadmin). It makes a lot of sense that the program do the right thing in the context of the menu presented to the user. That just means keypad 8 2 are up and down, keypad 1 and 2 are the entries. Belenix have managed it

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
If the code is not yet open then how did the Belenix people get this going? As far as I can see Grub background graphic (XPM) is a feature that is already I meant the keyboard mapping during the locale selection. Oh I misunderstood. I am just using GNU dialog linked with libncurses

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Dave Miner
Dennis Clarke wrote: Agreed (as a lapsed sysadmin). It makes a lot of sense that the program do the right thing in the context of the menu presented to the user. That just means keypad 8 2 are up and down, keypad 1 and 2 are the entries. Belenix have managed it after all, so the code must be

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Dave Miner
Dennis Clarke wrote: If the code is not yet open then how did the Belenix people get this going? As far as I can see Grub background graphic (XPM) is a feature that is already I meant the keyboard mapping during the locale selection. Oh I misunderstood. I am just using GNU dialog

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Dennis Clarke wrote: If the code is not yet open then how did the Belenix people get this going? As far as I can see Grub background graphic (XPM) is a feature that is already I meant the keyboard mapping during the locale selection. Oh I misunderstood. I am

[osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-10 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Recently I had a friend ask me why his ATI graphics card was not working with Solaris 10 Update 2. I asked him what kind of machine it was and it turned out to be some common dog hardware. Nothing fancy. But he was convinced that the graphics card was being ignored because the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-10 Thread Stephen Harpster
The aim is for developers.  Since ATI and nVidia control the majority of the market, we should get your friend's problem fixed.  W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Recently I had a friend ask me why his ATI graphics card was not working with Solaris 10 Update 2. I asked him what kind of

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-10 Thread Dennis Clarke
The aim is for developers. Since ATI and nVidia control the majority of the market, we should get your friend's problem fixed. I was able to walk him through the whole process just fine and it really came down to a misunderstanding. He saw that basic GRUB screen and assumed that graphics

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-10 Thread Russ Blaine
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: I could be wrong, but I don't think Solaris is being developed with an aim, or any slightest interest, to reach out to Windows/Linux users. Again, I could be wrong, but everything I have experienced (except BeleniX, but how much support is it geting?) tells me that I am