Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Some impressions (ksh related)

2005-07-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
is discussion, but I believe PostScript is actually rather well documented: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201379228/ http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/ps/index_specs.html -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, In

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How would "the ARC process" look at this discussion of KSH 88-vs-93?

2005-07-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
s the lack of any sort of public code management system more sophistacted than 'wget file.tar.gz'. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discu

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How would "the ARC process" look at this discussion of KSH 88-vs-93?

2005-08-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
inor release that we are ending support for ksh88 scripts and make ksh93 replace ksh in that minor release. (Probably want to include ksh93 in a prior update release first so customers can test their scripts.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mi

Re: [osol-discuss] Binary model & taxonomies: Re: Can we start OpenSolaris PMS enhancement project ?

2005-08-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ch faster development rate of hardware, and thus hardware drivers, than of other parts of the system, like the libX11 API, are also contributing factors to the modularization of X.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Re: [osol-discuss] SunRay open source?

2005-08-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Snit Mo wrote: Have SunRay source code (SRSS and firmware) been open-sourced? No. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Openwindows status

2005-08-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ll have to support them on Solaris 8 and older, but I'm not aware of any plans to release them. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list open

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Laptop community.

2005-08-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
at will take. Otherwise, the ATI is usable - I've been satisfied with the graphics in both the Acer Ferrari 3400 & 4000, but I rarely push more than gnome-terminal & firefox at it - nothing really demanding. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Studio10 installation on x86 Linux m/c hangs

2005-08-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
http://forum.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=276 -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] 3D acceleration

2005-08-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ons though, since the video chipset vendors don't release all the information necessary to do so. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3D acceleration

2005-08-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
use a Opensolaris Express build, because Mesa is here native ? Mesa is going to be slow no matter where you get it from for Solaris. It can't use any hardware acceleration until we get DRI (or a similar system) in place. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] 3D acceleration

2005-08-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
vide any OpenGL though (you may be able to use Mesa to draw in the X client, but that should be even slower than Mesa in Xorg). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ open

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3D acceleration

2005-08-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
all the details.) I'll forward your request for info on to the team working on it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express Community 20

2005-08-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e of bug report!) 6298507 kernel options -s and -m milestone don't play nice -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Dumb Question Time

2005-08-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
r as weak as you want it to be. It's very configurable, and includes ipfilter firewall, IPsec options, a service manager to control which services are running, etc. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express 8/2005 Released

2005-08-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ately, our code is heavily customized to support the GNOME accessibility and Solaris smartcard frameworks, so it's a lot of tedious hand merging. (Hopefully the new GNOME-screensaver fork will take all the accessibility patches upstream so it's not so difficult to merge in the future.) -

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
s going, but more about who can run the machines and CMS that will host the project. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] No kernel source updates?

2005-08-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
w lots of people couldn't handle that load.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Bug fix process overly burdonsome ?

2005-08-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
code review is not required, but informal review is encouraged for things that are complicated or potentially controversial. We've had discussions about creating a more formal code review process, perhaps like Mozilla's, but they haven't gone forward lately. -- -Alan Coope

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: I need help with solaris 10 instalation..

2005-09-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
in/bin/xinit to start X with some applications, or start X via a desktop manager like dtlogin (default) or gdm (optional in Solaris 10). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Admin tools coming?

2005-09-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
none yet, since the ones we have are in the parts of the system not yet released - though webmin is open source and I think Sun's changes for Solaris have pretty much been pushed upstream to the main webmin release. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Micros

Re: [osol-discuss] Admin tools coming?

2005-09-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
r friendly and more familiar to users of other OS'es.There was a discussion on creating an approachability community on opensolaris.org for this work as well, but I didn't see if that happened or not. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

Re: [osol-discuss] ldd of glxgears in nevada

2005-09-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ion. -h Print this help page. -v Verbose output. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ldd of glxgears in nevada

2005-09-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Felix Schulte wrote: On 9/1/05, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've filed bug 6318879 and will try to get the fix into Nevada build 24. The bug id does not appear on bugs.opensolaris.org - why are the bug databases still separated? It should in a day or two. The ex

Re: [osol-discuss] ldd of glxgears in nevada

2005-09-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
;s ability to use the machine. (There are things in /usr/openwin/demo on the other hand that I plan to move to /usr/X11/bin instead of /usr/X11/demo, because they should be more supported & easier to find - xev, for example.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PR

Re: [osol-discuss] ldd of glxgears in nevada

2005-09-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
he bug id for updating to a new xscreensaver is 4869280, but it's not on bugs.opensolaris.org yet, since xscreensaver is tracked under the GNOME categories that they're still working on as part of the JDS work for OpenSolaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTEC

[osol-discuss] Re: [xwin-discuss] OpenGL bugs

2005-09-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
software for Solaris SPARC is not being released via OpenSolaris, so I don't think is going to appear on bugs.opensolaris.org. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engine

[osol-discuss] Re: [xwin-discuss] OpenGL bugs

2005-09-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
hey'd end up in categories not made visible. (I don't actually know what happens to bugs filed via bugs.opensolaris.org - I don't remember seeing any come in yet for X.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Re: [xwin-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] priorities for additional Solaris consolidations

2005-09-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
n't know how it compares to SUN_OVL. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: priorities for additional Solaris consolidations

2005-09-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e, but gets events from streams modules that translate the specific hardware protocols to a common format - until those were upgraded, there was no way Xsun could see the events from the scroll wheels. (It's also why XFree86 already worked with PS/2 wheel mice, since it skips those

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: No CDE in OpenSolaris

2005-09-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
both of which are hard issues finally being tackled by the OpenSolaris program (for at least some parts of Solaris). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-di

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Filing bugs generates no confirmantion email?

2005-09-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
se subcategories should appear in the X Window System category soon: power-mgmt lbx xinerama xkb xprint as well as some additional bugs moving into the doc, man, and build subcategories from their former x11r64 counterparts. -- -Alan Cooper

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Filing bugs generates no confirmantion email?

2005-09-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Yes, this is my fault, sorry about that - I got sidetracked on other issues and hadn't finished updating the X bug categories to match what I had told Derek to make available on bugs.opensolaris.org when we added the X bugs. I've submitted the list now to

Re: [osol-discuss] newsgroup ?

2005-10-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
mnikhil m wrote: how about having one or opening one under comp.os.unix.sol10 .. :) If you just want a Solaris newsgroup, both comp.unix.solaris and alt.solaris.x86 are very active. They're not OpenSolaris-specific like this forum, but are good sources of Solaris info. --

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Reasons to change to Solaris

2005-10-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
pdate that when we deliver new versions in patches, so relying on the DESC field is not useful. There is no generic way to find the "upstream" version of software in a Solaris package - you have to rely on the software to have a -v or --version or equivalent. -- -Alan Coop

Re: [osol-discuss] international help a noob day

2005-10-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ee if you have it installed. (Solaris 10 updates that to Java Desktop System 3, which includes GNOME 2.6.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss ma

Re: [osol-discuss] inode numbers on ZFS

2005-10-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
stat()?(Granted, they've already had problems with stat() with out-of-range dates from NFS servers and other places, but those aren't as common as ZFS will be.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window Sys

Re: [osol-discuss] inode numbers on ZFS

2005-10-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ially or from all over the available address space. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] nForce3 NIC-where the heck is it?

2005-10-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
compares against a snapshot of the database from http://pciids.sf.net/ - unlike prtconf, it has no idea if there's a driver attached to the device or not. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engine

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: SchilliX-0.2 ready, but SchilliX (the project) needs help

2005-10-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
./configure & smake ?!? ;oP Won't be a ./configure unless you're going to build Xorg 7.0. (Xorg 6.x all use Imake instead of configure.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window Syst

Re: [osol-code] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: writing system boot message onto (test) wtmpx file

2005-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
es not, but I checked our sessreg utmpx code into the Xorg CVS this summer so it's in CVS head and the 6.9 release candidates. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering __

Re: [osol-discuss] fd limit on 32bit solaris i386 box

2005-11-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
l anything change in opensolaris? is it possible to increase this limit? The default won't change, but you could change the source code and rebuild libc yourself if you don't care about binary compatibility with existing binaries from Solaris or other OpenSolaris systems. --

Re: [osol-discuss] Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
move in the future. There's even talk of no longer hiding developer tools like make in /usr/ccs/bin! -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss ma

Re: [osol-discuss] Build 27a community release hits SDLC - Has ZFS!

2005-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/x_win/changelogs/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
11R7 is fast approaching, (RC2 out now!) many of the Linux distros plan to fix this by dumping the X11 subdirs altogether and putting it all in /usr/bin & /usr/lib directly, because the FHS won't be happy until every bundled program and library is in those directories. -- -Alan

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Rich Teer wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Alan Coopersmith wrote: and putting it all in /usr/bin & /usr/lib directly, because the FHS What's FHS? Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, part of the Linux Standards Base, and official naysayer of software-specific subdirs under /u

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_b28 this week ?

2005-11-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ake a couple days longer to get out the door. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: snv_b28 this week ?

2005-11-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Robert Dickel wrote: does 28 integrate Xorg 6.9/7.0? 6.9 RC2 - I've updated the X changelogs to include the changes delivered in the packages we integrated today: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/x_win/changelogs/changelogs-nv_20/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROT

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: snv_b28 this week ?

2005-11-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ee any information of the QA testing of Xscreensaver 4.23 and Xorg 6.9 RC2. Has things stabilized? Ref: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6343352 ~Ken --- Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Robert Dickel wrote: does 28 integrate Xorg 6.9/7.0?

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: OpenSolaris - Why should I care? More

2005-11-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
UNIX admin wrote: A classic one I just *adore* is allowing the use of "//" for comments inside of C source code... Which is actually standards compliant for a C99 conformant compiler. Quite a few extensions that used to be gcc-only-ism's are now C99 features. -- -A

Re: [desktop-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Incorporating open-source cmds/libs into OpenSolaris

2005-11-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
sting bits of the OS that depend on Sun's version. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris on 915gm

2005-11-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Xorg 6.9 release candidate versions, then they should support it.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Is distribution neutral application compatibility feasible?

2005-11-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
;t be in the first set of code released), but unfortuantely have a day job competing with that work, so it's going slower than anyone wants. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Is distribution neutral application compatibility feasible?

2005-12-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e, because nothing has changed in the API/ABI to require it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Is distribution neutral application compatibility feasible?

2005-12-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Erast Benson wrote: Nexenta's Xorg using 6.8.2 + CVS HEAD fixes. I guess, once Solaris will move to Xorg 7.0, this problem will be resolved. Nope, because we will still use the old library version number, beca

Re: [osol-discuss] i915GM Solaris Express 11/05

2005-12-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
oblem you are seeing? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Change Sun's video card refresh rate

2005-12-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Yann POUPET wrote: Is this driver a part of the available OpenSolaris source code ? Source to the SPARC graphics drivers are not and will not be released via OpenSolaris. Sorry. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] XVR-500

2005-12-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Paolo wrote: Exist a driver for the XVR-500 under Open Solaris?? No SPARC graphics card drivers are released under OpenSolaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Changing the X keyboard layout

2005-12-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Xsun has XKB, it's just off by default. To change Xsun on x86 keyboard layout, run kdmconfig (as root) and choose a new layout. Xorg does use XKB by default, and should work fine with setxkbmap (though we haven't bundled it yet, we should one of these days). -Alan C

Re: [xwin-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Changing the X keyboard layout

2005-12-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ut that's a sad story for another forum.) -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ken mays wrote: As a part of ref: http://www.sun.com/desktop/index.jsp?tab=3 http://www.sun.com/desktop/docs/Type7Reference.pdf Th

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: XVR-500

2005-12-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
UNIX admin wrote: No SPARC graphics card drivers are released under OpenSolaris. Why? Unfortunately, the lawyers have asked we not give details about why specific components are not being released. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Changing the X keyboard layout

2005-12-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
;m not familiar with - perhaps someone in desktop-discuss or i18n-discuss can help you there. You may also want to try the globalization software web pages at: http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/global/index.html -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mi

Re: OpenSolairis a choice for the government desktop? // Re: [osol-discuss] KDE, GNOME, etc.

2005-12-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
it will affect the sales on the whole European continent. Why is the requirement KDE? Is the requirement for specific functionality that GNOME doesn't offer? Or do they specify a desktop whose name is spelled exactly "KDE"? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [

Re: [osol-discuss] X11R7

2005-12-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
on this can be found in the X Window System community at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/x_win/ and that site will be updated as we progress on this plan. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering __

Re: [osol-discuss] Non-debug builds question

2006-01-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
x27;ve just had more testing to determine they are ready for more widespread release. Xorg did change between b23 & b28 though - it was upgraded to the Xorg 6.9 Release Candidate 2 release from the X.Org Foundation. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Micro

Re: [osol-discuss] KDE Translucency

2006-01-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
x27;re doing with the JDS & Project Looking Glass teams to provide the libraries they will need in the future. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-dis

Re: [osol-discuss] Non-debug builds question

2006-01-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ecame very slow! I don't believe this! I think that may be a known EXA problem - it is an experimental acceleration architecture still under development. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Re: [osol-discuss] How to kill X-Server?

2006-01-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
laris x86, it's also Control-Alt-Backspace. If you're using Xsun on SPARC or x86, there is none by default, but you can configure one - see: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/alanc?entry=killing_xsun_with_a_keystroke -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Micros

Re: [osol-discuss] Please update 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-01-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
time unfortunately. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Please update 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-01-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
interest in such a work. And years ago Sun had no interest in open-sourcing Solaris. Times change, priorities change, answers to questions about what Sun will do change. If the plan is still relevant, present it now and don't worry about past failures to agree. -- -Alan Cooper

Re: [osol-discuss] Please update 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-01-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
program that made most of the Solaris source freely available to Universities - arranging a source release outside the existing programs is more expensive than any bug fixes are likely to be worth. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] Please update 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-01-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brendan Gregg wrote: How about the dtksh source be bundeled with OpenSolaris, so that all the dtksh fans can pitch in and fix a few of those alpha bugs. :-) (assuming I'm not the only dtksh fan). dtksh is part

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Build 29 or newer?

2006-01-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. (I'm sure you'll appreciate the simple workaround of "Use CDE." 8-) http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6361062 -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Windo

Re: [osol-discuss] What package is dmake in ?

2006-01-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
SPROdmake in Sun Studio. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: CIFS group creation request.

2006-01-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
uture date under the umbrella of a larger storage/filesystem community. A CIFS/SMBFS project would seem to be a feasible part of the Approachability community, as one of the big parts of approachability is interoperability with and easing migration from other OS'es. -- -Alan C

Re: [osol-discuss] where can I find and download additional locales?

2006-01-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
community: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/int_localization/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-02-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
d a port of the DRI/DRM support for accelerated open source 3D drivers for ATI is in progress. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list open

Re: [osol-discuss] German Type 7 keyboards?

2006-02-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
45 they should come bundled with the Type 7, or the separate Type 7 country kits are listed in the Sun Store and on the price list. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] German Type 7 keyboards?

2006-02-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
reach one of the 3 USB ports in the keyboard (2 on back, one underneath like the old mouse ports on pre-USB Sun Type 6 keyboards). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] German Type 7 keyboards?

2006-02-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
And since it's a small key, the label is actually: Aus- schnei- den so it can all fit.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensol

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on desktop

2006-02-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Jaideep Das wrote: Is solaris express OS is the one which is available from sun website. I think we need license for that. You need a license for any OS - the one for Solaris is free though. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] start X sceen

2006-02-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
BASH wrote: hi, how can i start X sceen in solaris 10??? In the default configuration, X is started automatically by dtlogin, which also presents the login screen. If you've disabled the auto-start of dtlogin you can re-enable it via /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -e -- -Alan Cooper

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CDE Vs JDS

2006-02-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Bonobo is rather amusing given the state of Bonobo in GNOME today. Perhaps that is due for an update if marketing ever changes this site to reflect something beyond GNOME 2.0.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCR > b30

2006-02-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Cyril Plisko wrote: How can legal issues with RealPlayer10, which presumably appears in b32 hold off release of b31 ? RealPlayer first appeared in build 31. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CDE Vs JDS

2006-02-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Stephen Hahn wrote: * Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-14 08:55]: Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.sun.com/software/star/gnome/faq/generalfaq.xml#q23 Mmm, how is this related to star? I believe it's reflecting the organizational gene

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCR > b30

2006-02-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
n legal delay help anyone outside Sun? There's nothing you can do with that knowledge, just wait as long as you would have knowing that somewhere in SX there's a legal problem waiting to be solved by Sun. (I will agree that better status updates on how long you have to wait would

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CDE Vs JDS

2006-02-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Sun Studio cannot be linked with C++ built with g++. C++ code compiled with g++ cannot be linked with C++ built with different versions of g++. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System E

Re: [osol-discuss] A couple of odditis with build 33

2006-02-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e x86 installer to use Xorg instead in the near future, at which point we'll be able to include the nVidia accelerated driver directly into the OS install and this problem will go away and everyone will have fast 2-D & 3-D graphics on their nVidia cards.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: Cheap SPARC development machine ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] AMD 64 X2 processor support

2006-02-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
) ... Ultra 20? Not a SPARC! Of the current machines sold with the Ultra name, only the Ultra 45 is a SPARC - the Ultra 20 & 40 are AMD64. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Enginee

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Mesa 6.4.2/6.5 for Solaris x86

2006-02-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Jeremy Teo wrote: I believe Alan Coopersmith mentioned in passing (on #opensolaris) that there are already folks in Sun working on DRI, and they have working code. Yes, a group from our kernel/driver team has a prototype of DRI on Intel integrated graphics chips up and running now and is

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun OpenGL 1.5 for Solaris {SPARC}

2006-02-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
APIs for Solaris or the OpenSolaris project. OpenGL Renderer: SUNWm64 mmap software renderer, VIS You're using the software-only pipeline, so it's most directly comparable to software-only Mesa without DRI. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [osol-discuss] BeleniX 0.4 Released

2006-02-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

2006-03-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
xenta all ship the exact same set of video drivers - the ones included in Xorg 6.9. What video devices work with their Xorg builds and not ours? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window Syst

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

2006-03-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
oup and install teams are working to migrate the Solaris x86 installer to Xorg (including modifying the graphics configuration setup in the install to work with Xorg instead of Xsun) so that we can then integrate the nVidia driver directly into the Solaris install. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [request-sponsor] Re: [osol-discuss] 1 new request-sponsor putback: 39 total

2006-03-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
aps it's just a technical problem with database export that will be eventually fixed? How would it determine which bugs those fields can be exported for? We can't do it for all bugs, since some contain source which cannot be disclosed publically. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

2006-03-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: With regard to the video driver issue, ATI has written a script to replace the mesa driver with their proprietary fglxr driver. This is something we will look into. What OS are you talking about? There is no ATI fglxr driver for Solaris, only Linux. -- -Alan

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

2006-03-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
those are sorely lacking from the bug report. No amount of scripting will make ATI's Linux kernel driver run on a Solaris kernel though. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering __

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

2006-03-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ll is done is Xorg. A lot of effort is being put into both fixing Xorg autoconfig and into getting install ready to move to Xorg, so the experience and configuration is consistent across both environments. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

2006-03-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
was listed in the X Consolidation ChangeLogs for build 34 posted on the X community on opensolaris.org, and mentioned in my blog posting on the nevada build 34 changes to X.How else should it have been communicated? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mi

Re: [osol-discuss] Code gates

2006-03-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
I believe only ON has so many developers to need the master/clone split gate. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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