Re: [osol-discuss] ATI new graphic cards roxx! Solaris drivers?

2007-11-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to beta quality. ATI has not yet released 3D specifications, so this isn't the place to go yet if you want 3D performance. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
for terminal type xterm changed. 6569261 xterm, xtermc, xterm-color: smcup/rmcup definitions are incorrect/missing -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Which display manager

2007-11-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
' - though be ready for your desktop session to be killed as soon as you run that. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] [kde-discuss] Display Managers

2007-11-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
exists and is used is at sites who want the same login gui on all their different varieties of Unix machines, even the old ones without GNOME.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] [kde-discuss] Display Managers

2007-11-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, and every other OpenSolaris distro would have to find something else anyway. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] [kde-discuss] Display Managers

2007-11-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
is depending on Virtual Terminals to provide that function, so is waiting for that project to complete. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] [kde-discuss] Display Managers

2007-11-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
in freetype expat. I'm surprised I didn't see libXft2 in the list, since the dependency chain is usually gtk - pango - libXft2 - fontconfig - freetype expat. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] [kde-discuss] Display Managers

2007-11-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
initially. From my understanding, this would either need a binary standard for C++ or a way to define a different LD_RUN_PATH for gcc compiled binaries. Why? KDM is an application, not a library. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] [kde-discuss] Display Managers

2007-11-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
a closed-source, yet free, compiler to compile open source binaries (or if that's even allowed by GPL), is something that could be suggested as a reason to change it, but for now, those are the rules. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] 'more' broken in b77 miniroot?

2007-11-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
finally got /usr/bin/pg to work, since the miniroot didn't have much else I could use for multi-page files.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Middle management at Sun destroys OpenDS is OpenSolaris next?

2007-11-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
incentive for Sun not to screw up. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana review

2007-12-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
(and you missed a few known incompatibilities, like libX11 libXext in the Preview breaking binary compatibility with Solaris X apps), isn't it a good thing that uname warns you this isn't SunOS, so you know it's not compatible and your scripts don't go assuming it is? -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is my Intel GMA 950 graphics not beingreconisded (driver exists)

2007-12-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
performance and functionality. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] frequency scalling in opensolaris

2007-12-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
are participating via e-mail. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [website-discuss] [webstack-discuss] Open Solaris bug web UI unusable (was) Re: mysql user

2007-12-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
://defect.opensolaris.org/ , using Project Indiana and a few other projects as guinea pigs. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] [webstack-discuss] Open Solaris bug web UI unusable (was) Re: mysql user

2007-12-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
badly in large part because it's unresourced and no one has the responsibility to improve it, hence the goal to replace it with an open bug db. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] [webstack-discuss] Open Solaris bug web UI unusable (was) Re: mysql user

2007-12-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, where Indiana is being used as a test subject to help evaluate bugzilla 3.0 to become the new bug db for OpenSolaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris vs. Solaris10 application compatibility

2007-12-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
preview, and not an intended end-state. I know I'm expected to fix the X library issues that keep current Solaris binaries like StarOffice from being able to run on Indiana. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] SunPC SunPCI Device Registers/Programming Info

2007-12-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
://wikis.sun.com/display/FOSSdocs/Home -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] How do I update my bugreport?

2007-12-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
list like opensolaris-bugs, and ask for your bug report to be updated by a Sun employee. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE based on b77?

2007-12-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
not in the SXDE 9/07 release (which was build 70b). -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Mark Drummond wrote: I just downloaded the DVD for SXCR build 77. It appears to include SXDE as well. Is this SXDE 9/07? It's a bit

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
been, so I see no conflict. Neither the OGB nor the ARC can be expected to regulate the namespace of every program someone has written in the world, only those that have asked to be part of OpenSolaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-14 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] [ogb-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
code into Solaris, which is near impossible for an outsider. Fortunately, OpenSolaris is here now - try the new process. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-12-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
and used by a handful of people, and the reality is, ImageMagick is far more widely used than your compare program.There is no world-wide registry of open source command names we can force projects to check against to be sure they're not using one that already exists. -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
30,000 people here, and we all do different things and disagree on many of them, and if you don't deal with the individuals, nothing can ever happen. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Any info on what holds b78 and b79 ?

2007-12-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Robert wrote: ...and why is is not announced when there is an holdup? http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=46262tstart=0 http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=46369tstart=90 -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc

Re: [osol-discuss] uname -a shows i386 on 64 bit capable system

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-bit amd64 kernel modules -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] How to enable XDM?

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
: Pattern 'svc:/application/graphical-login/cde-login' doesn't match any instances What OS/release are you running? The cde login service was renamed a while ago - you can 'svcs -a | grep login' to see if you have it under a different name. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] STAR integration

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, there's no one at Sun working on that, or numerous other projects from 2004 that got cancelled and the teams either reassigned or laid off. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Correlation of snv_66 to S10 u4

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ray Clark wrote: Should a bug fixed in snv_66 be in S10 u4 (8/07) ? No. They are two completely different branches of the tree, and only a subset of the bugs fixed in snv are backported to S10 updates. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc

Re: [osol-discuss] Correlation of snv_66 to S10 u4

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
# names while they're under development because release dates used in the final names may change), so the patch for Solaris 10 is already in progress, because another customer already did contact technical support to make it a priority. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] What's new for drivers for Xorg on SPARC?

2007-12-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
as a graphics device to draw the text console, not just dropping into OBP to make it draw text on the screen), and those drivers for SPARC graphics are currently closed source (though redistributable). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE 1/08 features

2007-12-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
in SXDE, that's probably a bit more than half the code base between them. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] need equivalent for some linux commands.

2007-12-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
is present, Xorg initializes the keyboard layout based on what was set by the kbd command last - you'll have to restart it after running kbd -s to pick up the changes. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] NSA has backdoors into Windows?

2008-01-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
are tightly restricted and access only available to the engineering teams who work on them. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] NSA has backdoors into Windows?

2008-01-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
us to make various programs stop grabbing the X server, which blocked out all other clients while it was grabbed. Of course, secure sites use Trusted Extensions which protects you against such things. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] NSA has backdoors into Windows?

2008-01-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
for you. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] help in launching our project

2008-01-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
be the Security community - you can find them at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/security/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Building QT-4.3.3 with OpenGL enabled

2008-01-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
for the applications that need it in wrapper scripts, not for everything. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Building QT-4.3.3 with OpenGL enabled

2008-01-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to OpenSolaris? I don't know of any bug reports filed or fixes needed there. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-code] xvfb on solaris 10

2008-01-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/Xvfb - I don't know if that will work any better for you or not. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone know how to purchase a b78 DVD?

2008-01-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kyle McDonald wrote: And I believe an update to SXDE is coming shortly that will bring it up to something (at least as new if not) newer than b78. SXDE 1/08 is planned to be based on a respin of b79, and to be released in a couple of weeks. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with GeForce 6200 and Nvidia driver

2008-01-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
a laptop chipset on the video card in your server - what PCI device id does /usr/X11/bin/scanpci (need to run as root) show for your video card? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2008-01-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Mohan Chandrashekar wrote: Please let me know how I can contribute to this project. Have you tried joining the mailing list shown on their project page at http://opensolaris.org/os/project/samqfs/ and asking there? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2008-01-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Brian Gupta wrote: Alan, I can't find this list here: http://opensolaris.org/os/discussions/ Is this because it isn't integrated with the website? Looks like they have a mailing list, but not a web (jive) forum. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-01-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
missing (I know what I think we need to fix in Indiana before release, but that's probably not the same list as yours). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] issues with X in Indiana

2008-01-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
the X packaging and making the X11 libraries binary compatible with Solaris (they are not right now, since they are mainly the current X11R7 versions without any of the previous Solaris modifications). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris CD/DVD Distribution availability as of 01/30/2008

2008-01-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
? It contains a fairly recent ksh93 that was integrated a few months ago. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2007081701/ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Programs compiled on OpenSolaris backwards compatible with Solaris 10?

2008-01-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
you don't link with libraries/functions that aren't present in the older releases. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-01-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Nexenta, Schillix, Belenix and Martux. Forks aren't always bad, nor unfriendly, and code often flows between them. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
or accessibility packages brings them in - the package dependencies in xscreensaver's package (SUNWxwsvr) don't specify them. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Software Change was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to choose a screensaver display module from the base package - it's not just GNOME integration, but basic functionality that uses the gtk toolkit. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
for it to read /etc/shadow for locally-defined users to be able to unlock the screen.We don't make things suid-root without a damn good reason. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Software Change was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
no reason to spend its resources doing it ourselves. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Software Change was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ken Gunderson wrote: On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:46:54 -0800 Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kyle McDonald wrote: The missing link here is deciding it's worthwhile to do that work. When xscreensaver was added to Solaris during one of the Solaris 9 update releases it was explicitly

Re: [osol-discuss] /bin/sh was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
if we could only get the people entering the Code for Freedom contest to do something simple but useful like that instead of correcting all our comment typos...) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
held on [EMAIL PROTECTED], and not any of the other mailing lists you cc'ed - take it there or expect them to not see it. (Followups set to there.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Mesa 7.0.2 support in OpenSolaris

2008-02-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
or the nvidia version of OpenGL, it's not been our top priority (or at least few people have told us if they do - the only thing I've been asked for from 7.0.2 is the updated Intel driver support). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] Mesa 7.0.2 support in OpenSolaris

2008-02-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
at the same time because Mesa Xorg's GLX module are too tightly bound together. We have an engineer looking at doing the upgrade of Mesa the GLX module, without the rest of Xorg, and you should see on xwin-discuss if when we go forward with that. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview

2008-02-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kyle McDonald wrote: Not all bad in my opinion since we'll still have access to SXCE (I assume,) Certainly we'll have to keep doing SXCE as long as you can only build the OpenSolaris code on SXCE and not on Indiana - how long that will be, I don't know. -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] Roadmap for Solaris 10?

2008-02-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
that in advance really, but the beta test program for the next Solaris 10 update is underway. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
about a post on a driver, post it to driver-discuss. If you want an Indiana team member to pay attention to a post on Indiana contents, post it to indiana-discuss. Only if you want to be ignored, do you post it to opensolaris-discuss. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
is looking at what is needed to include ae and/or unencumber pcn - whether either or both happens is TBD, but given the problems in changing the names of network interfaces, just saying we should drop in ae isn't a complete answer for people already using pcn. -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] Changelog SXCE?

2008-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
one delivered into SXCE. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Status update: OGB Nominees 2008 Elections.

2008-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
see in the constitution (section 6.3) is that they must be nominated by one current Member (aka Core Contributor) - no seconds or additional support is listed as required. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Status update: OGB Nominees 2008 Elections.

2008-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Glynn Foster wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: Brandorr wrote: For those that aren't following Bugzilla, in order to become a candidate for the OGB, a person needs a nomination from a core contributor, *TWO* +1s from core contributors, and then needs to accept the nomination. From

Re: [osol-discuss] Any reason to keep my Ultra 10?

2008-02-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
UNIX admin wrote: Good to know that Sun treats everyone fairly and equally, isn't it? Many businesses offer volume discounts and other incentives to bigger customers - does it really surprise you that Sun does as well? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Starting independent user session from remote desktop

2008-02-25 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] Small OpenSolaris projects for students

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
semester.) - Bluetooth stack and simple sample driver (mouse or keyboard maybe). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Informal (and unsanctioned) poll

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, with no intent needed to participate or ever come back after the shipping form is filled out. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] [website-discuss] Changelog SXCE?

2008-02-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ones, since it's rare we need to do that and I know when it happens, but I wouldn't know about any other consolidation. Perhaps this is something the Tonic P-Team should discuss asking the consolidations to think about? [1] http://twitter.com/opensolaris -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] Help with VNC server setup in build 82 Community Edition

2008-03-03 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] cc -include

2008-03-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/Makefile.am ) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Support for AMD 780G chipset? OMG!!!

2008-03-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
driver, or enough information to the open source developers so they can make a driver, we'll have Solaris support.I have no idea if or when either of those are likely to happen though. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Support for AMD 780G chipset? OMG!!!

2008-03-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
a very different market product team.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [solarisx86] Picking a Laptop for S10/x86

2008-03-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/resources/getit/ It still has a few rough edges as we replace the legally encumbered bits, but it's getting there. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] [solarisx86] Picking a Laptop for S10/x86

2008-03-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, Defaults are for people who have no preferences of their own. I had no problem creating my account to use /bin/tcsh and copying over my .cshrc with my $PATH. I'm sure someone who calls themself UNIX admin can do the same in seconds. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] [solarisx86] Picking a Laptop for S10/x86

2008-03-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
that our test teams continually remind us is needed and the install team keeps pointing to the road map saying We know, it's planned. You're watching the soup being made, and not everything is in the pot yet. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Download Center and wget

2008-03-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
licensed all those codecs patents from. (Obviously I have no idea what the licenses between RealPlayer the rest of the world require - but I've seen some of the licenses Sun has that are keeping SXCE trapped in the same situation, and they're not pretty.) -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get an old build?

2008-03-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
running nv_84 - I usually live upgrade to the current nevada build every month or two). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] How to get an old build?

2008-03-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
or glib at all - they're the layer below GNOME - and thus completely unaffected by any of this ASSERTing. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Pointless KDE vs. GNOME discussion was Re: [desktop-discuss] How to get an old build?

2008-03-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, and just added compiz... -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] no CDDL on /etc/default/sys-suspend

2008-03-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
be open sourced, and delivered somewhere else (since CDE is going away and not having new stuff added to it). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting a Type7 :-)

2008-03-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
- it was the Type 5 with permanently attached cable, instead of a port in the keyboard that the cable plugged into.Sun serial keyboards had beepers built in, including the Type 6 - Sun USB keyboards do not, including the Type 6 USB. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] sunfreeware.com best practices

2008-04-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
from Sun, but with different install locations and update schedules). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] SPARC PCI Graphics

2008-04-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
on the sun.com website. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SPARC PCI Graphics

2008-04-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
what UPA cards are supported? As far as I know, Sun was the only company to ever make UPA graphics cards, and all UPA cards Sun made are supported by Solaris/OpenSolaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there a change list for the upcoming b87 release anywhere?

2008-04-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
logs by finding their new build available e-mails in the desktop-discuss sfwnv-discuss archives. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] xscreensaver not fouond

2008-04-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
all have seen this before. i thought had thought the solution was to echo this line into the .profile or was it the profile file PATH=$PATH /usr/openwin/bin You need a : in there, not a space: PATH=$PATH:/usr/openwin/bin -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] xscreensaver not found Still not working

2008-04-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
:. This second setting of PATH overrides the first one. You'll need to switch the order to make it work as expected, since the openwin one adds to PATH instead of replacing it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Compatibility - Developing Products for Solaris

2008-04-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, x86_64 and i386 or must I do all three? i386 binaries can run unmodified on x86_64 as well, so you'ld only need two to cover all platforms. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Help with Compiz

2008-04-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
heather valentine wrote: hi i would like some help with compiz on Solaris express Install Solaris Express Community Edition build 85 or later, or the OpenSolaris 2008.05 test (or wait a couple weeks for final) and compiz is already included. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Compatibility - Developing Products for Solaris

2008-04-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/docs/doc/817-1984?l=en and if you have questions on that, there's a tools-linking list/forum: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/discussions/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Suggestion: Add VirtualBox guest additions to Nevada and Indiana

2008-05-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Solaris under VMWare before you can get to the point where you can install their guest tools. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] was Alpine, now Exim...

2008-05-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
James Carlson wrote: We used to have such a thing in the Companion CD, but that's apparently fall out of favor with the rise of Indiana. Actually the Companion CD is the main other IPS repository currently available, hosted at sunfreeware.com. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] will there be an sxce build 88 ?

2008-05-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
with the SXDE installer, so the external release may be similarly delayed. (They ended up not fixing it in 88 and telling people to use one of the other install methods this time around.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] will opensolaris ever be released under the GPL?

2008-05-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
cannot be released under the GPL as long as it depends on closed binaries in core areas like the kernel and libc - doing so would make it less free as no one could then distribute a working system. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
DRM (Direct Rendering, not Digital Restrictions) in nv_88 that was mostly developed by Linux guys (the primary maintainer works at Red Hat), due to this. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris NDIS Wrapper Toolkit!

2008-05-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Reggie wrote: Does this work in latest open solaris release 2008.5? I couldn't get it to work because there is no gcc or flex installed in /usr/local/bin. gcc flex are available from the repository, just didn't fit on the LiveCD. Run: pfexec pkg install gcc-dev SUNWflexlex -- -Alan

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