Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-21 Thread Casper . Dik
>But if my window manager pops up an information window, which says : > >"Hurg ! It seems your naughty sound card driver has crashed. >Do you want to try to reset it ? [YES] [NO] >Do you want to unload and reload it ? [YES] [NO] >Do you want to send a bug report to the maintainer ? [YES] [NO] >Do

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-20 Thread Chris Ricker
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, James Carlson wrote: > Yann POUPET writes: > > "Hurg ! It seems your naughty sound card driver has crashed. > > Do you want to try to reset it ? [YES] [NO] > > Do you want to unload and reload it ? [YES] [NO] > > Do you want to send a bug report to the maintainer ? [YES] [NO]

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-20 Thread Darren J Moffat
Yann POUPET wrote: dressing a problem I have on my Solaris box (actually I have no problem with my Solaris computer, I try to imagine some problems I could have :-) You may have noticed english is not my mother tongue, and maybe I haven't been clear, then I'll try to explain better. This featu

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-20 Thread Eric Lowe
Having general memory protection in the kernel (such that a "crashed" driver can be known not to have damaged anything else) sounds like an interesting project, but nowhere near where we are today. .. and on some architectures like SPARC (sun4u at least) it's virtually impossible to pull off an

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-20 Thread James Carlson
Yann POUPET writes: > "Hurg ! It seems your naughty sound card driver has crashed. > Do you want to try to reset it ? [YES] [NO] > Do you want to unload and reload it ? [YES] [NO] > Do you want to send a bug report to the maintainer ? [YES] [NO] > Do you want to be informed by email when it is fix

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-20 Thread Yann POUPET
> Ah, when I think of "cool features" I generally think > that that means > features I have seen working elsewhere and which > address a problem I > currently have under Solaris. > > In the case of the sound driver: there are cases > where the driver thinks > it's all OK but the sound is distorted