Re: [osol-discuss] Newbie: How to install packages from remote desktop?

2008-05-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Terence Ng wrote: > After I type: > pkgadd -d /path/to/SUNWmfrun/ SUNWmfrun > > the output is: > pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in Should be pkgadd -d /path/to SUNWmfrun (i.e. the -d is the parent directory of the SUNWmfrun directory). -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Newbie: How to install packages from remote desktop?

2008-05-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
The parent of SUNWmfrun then is /var/tmp, so you need: pkgadd -d /var/tmp SUNWmfrun or cd /var/tmp ; pkgadd -d . SUNWmfrun -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Terence Ng wrote: > I have sftp

Re: [osol-discuss] New features I would like to see

2008-05-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Though work is happening to use better compression to fit more in, so some may come that way.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailin

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
on the pkg-discuss mailing list. It's very much a system still under development, and now is the time to influence their decisions. There's been a lot of discussions on pkg-discuss the last few weeks on this very topic you can read up on to get the current state of thinking before adding in yo

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
river" - though with the caveat that there's plans to allow packages to be able to provide postinstall-like scripts (though if doing a install into a image not running, they won't be run until that image is booted, similar to GNOME's postrun) in the future. -- -Al

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
IPS you need, you need to go tell the people on pkg-discuss, not opensolaris-discuss. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.05 - feedback of progress

2008-06-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
a Acer Ferrari 4000 laptop). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Pro/E Wildfire on OpenSolaris 2008.5?

2008-06-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Aaron Wilson wrote: > As far as Adobe Reader, don't hold your breath :) A year would be a bit long to hold it: http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2008/05/adobe_reader_on_solaris_x86_co.html -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. -

Re: [osol-discuss] Requirements gathering meeting

2008-06-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
astructure. What's missing is a > browser. http://poll.opensolaris.org shows the contributors to each community if you choose the grants tab. The raw data it uses is available as a csv file from that server if you want to transmogrify into another format. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] question about future opensolaris releases

2008-06-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ere any plans to do a Debian style stable/testing/unstable repo split? The 6 month refreshes are the stable release - the updates this weekend, and every two weeks are the testing bits, similar to SXCE. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. -

Re: [osol-discuss] question about future opensolaris releases

2008-06-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ve the same rapid release schedule as > nevada? It allows that option if you want it - if not, just don't update, or buy a support contract to get access to the fixes-only repo once that's set up, instead of the repo with the biweekly development builds. -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] Does the 2008.05 CD update the OS?

2008-06-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ssentially the > same thing that would come with a build 89 Live CD? Yes - see the build 90 pkg availability announcement posted to opensolaris-announce this weekend. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering __

Re: [osol-discuss] Minimal Install of OpenSolaris 2008.05

2008-06-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ckages to install or not - you install the default set, then add or remove to customize. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] Incorrect time zone setting.

2008-06-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
;s backwards from what most people expect, but that's the POSIX definition of a timezone specified that way. See the TZ section of the environ(5) man page. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?

2008-06-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
more examples are at: http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html http://en.opensuse.org/Multiple_Displays_Using_XRandR -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opens

Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?

2008-06-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
can make one by running "/usr/X11/bin/Xorg -configure" when X isn't running - to do that, kill gdm (which in turn kills your current login session & X server) with: svcadm disable gdm Once you've created and edited the xorg.conf, you can restart gdm with:

Re: [osol-discuss] bugs.opensolaris.org out of builds[was: man: segmentation fault (snv_91)]

2008-06-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Oscar del Rio wrote: > I couldn't report it in opensolaris.org bug-reporting system because the > "Release" drop-down menu does not have snv_91 (only until 90)... another bug. I've filed bug 6716916 against the bugs.opensolaris.org website to fix that. --

Re: [osol-discuss] StarOffice and JDS Missing

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
wer GNOME with a different Sun theme, so it's mostly still there - what is missing that you were looking for? As for StarOffice, OpenSolaris provides OpenOffice.org in the pkg repo, you just have to download it from the pkg manager. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-bugs] man: segmentation fault (snv_91)

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e bug update on bugs.opensolaris.org until the next once-a-day resync). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-bugs] man: segmentation fault (snv_91)

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ll be adding checks to the path_to_manpath code to protect against segfaults in other special cases, by basically doing something like changing the check from: if (stat(mand, &sb) == 0) to: if ((stat(mand, &sb) == 0) && (S_ISDIR(sb.mode)) ? (I realize that's not

Re: [osol-discuss] font display in snv_91

2008-06-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
better now, and another bunch of people complaining you made it so much worse.Fonts are so crucial to using the desktop, but so subjective in personal preferences, that it's just a minefield to work in. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, I

Re: [osol-discuss] change the logo of dtlogin

2008-06-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
o disable the new login screen. There's some infodocs in SunSolve that were updated for the S10 login screen changes (the official docs.sun.com docs weren't), and I posted some information years ago at: http://blogs.sun.com/alanc/tags/dtlogin -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC channel

2008-07-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
't use except when trying to reproduce reported bugs). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC channel

2008-07-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
anteed to never happen. So to make you happiest here Sun should kill Solaris and switch to Linux? Or keep Solaris, but kill ZFS and switch to ext2fs? Where's your line for where Sun should be different and where it should just use what others use? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EM

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS on SXCE?

2008-07-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
f a portion of OpenSolaris code (the "ON" or "OS & Networking" consolidation) to install new builds of that subset (about 20% of the whole SXCE OS) for testing. The SXCE upgrade procedure is to download the CD's or DVD's for the new build and run either Live Upgrade or the

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris CD/DVD Distributions as of July 7, 2008

2008-07-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
me this summer as part of the pre-release testing of the 2008.11 release. Exactly when depends on when they get several bugs fixed in the current iso images. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, I

Re: [osol-discuss] why there is no CDE in solaris Express

2008-07-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ess. It's still available (for now) if you manually re-add it to the session menu - see the mail describing this at: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2008-May/013892.html -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window Syst

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_93 much slower than previous

2008-07-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
d then moving /root/xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and editing it - adding "pfexec" to those commands where needed if not logged in as root. Once it's in place, "svcadm gdm enable ; exit" to switch back from command line to gui login.) -- -Alan Coope

Re: [osol-discuss] party

2008-07-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to boxing, booze galore and all manor of > mischief, Wednesday night's bash is the top ticket in town. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ open

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_93 much slower than previous

2008-07-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
I don't know why it's marked "Defer" by the kernel team.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris suitable for use on Sparc hardware?

2008-07-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, like Solaris Express Community Edition. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] man pages for system calls are empty (missing) in opensolaris 2008.05

2008-07-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
where to find the man pages on docs.sun.com instead. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] man pages for system calls are empty (missing) in opensolaris 2008.05

2008-07-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
are fully, painfully, dreadfully aware of that, being developers ourselves. We curse lawyers every time we type "man", but yet, we can't just ignore them. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun M

Re: [osol-discuss] Can Solaris be discussed here?

2008-08-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
existing release.) As for the forums, like most Sun engineers I suspect, I don't have time to monitor many different forum sites, and never really got involved in those forums - and while you may be viewing these as web forums, they're gatewayed to mailing lists, so show up in my inbox

Re: [osol-discuss] VIA PC2500E and opensolaris?

2008-08-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ne has tested it and then submitted it back. If the devices have supported drivers it will probably work, though I don't know anything about the VIA CPU's off hand. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] Can Solaris be discussed here?

2008-08-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
s changed since. Sounds like something you need to escalate to the service manager or whoever sold you the service contract. -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Glen Gunselman wrote: > Alan, > > You must

Re: [osol-discuss] blastwave.org - any info?

2008-08-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
have the old ones cached, but I'm sure that won't last long.) http://204.152.191.100/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] blastwave.org - any info?

2008-08-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ian Collins wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> http://204.152.191.100/ >> > The wiki's gone :( Clicking through tries to redirect via the DNS name, but going to http://204.152.191.100/wiki/index.php/Main_Page seems to work for me. Perhaps Ben or Al can bring it back o

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.05 (snv_86) update to snv_94 => gdm core dump

2008-08-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
.3 Mb, not very small - which could be a bug that people have reported to pkg-discuss last week with incomplete files being downloaded when updating from the pkg repos. -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Lubomir Petrik

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE

2008-08-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ind SXDE for SPARC??? It was never made. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Remote login with OpenSolaris 2008.5 b95

2008-08-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
m/timthomas/entry/a_simple_vnc_server_and (which document gdm/OpenSolaris) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] /tmp/.X11-pipe not being created.

2008-09-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
E) or gdm (default on OpenSolaris 2008.05). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Posters Be Aware: Jive vs. Mailman

2008-09-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ere. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] autoconf and packages

2008-09-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ost of the other > packages. > > BTW I'm running SXCE snv_97. Then you should have autoconf installed in /usr/bin/autoconf by the package SUNWaconf. It's been in SXCE for a few builds now - I see it on an snv_92 machine. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Identification macro for Open Solaris

2008-09-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ce is IPS, which should be as simple as testing for /usr/bin/pkg. Most other differences come down to which packages are installed, for which you could check for those packages. What other differences do you need to know about? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Identification macro for Open Solaris

2008-09-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Why? What would you do differently between the two or do with this information? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list op

Re: [osol-discuss] Some questions (About GNOME, ...)

2008-09-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
g to know when GNOME 2.24 will be integrated in Solaris? > How about JDS marketing? > Is there plan to go away from JDS name and use in all place GNOME? desktop-discuss is the best place to ask GNOME/JDS questions. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsyst

Re: [osol-discuss] Choices & Staying up to date

2008-10-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ion, since the infrastructure to release bug fix updates to the stable branch is planned, but not yet in place. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris equivalents for GNU packages

2008-10-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
u know the file names, you can check yourself on an installed system (which you must have to be able to build this, right?): SVR4 packages: pkgchk -l -p /usr/lib/libsasl.so.1 IPS packages (locally installed packages only): pkg search libsasl.so.1 IPS packages (search pkg.opensolaris.org repo): pkg sea

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Jargon

2008-10-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
r to a consolidation source, such as "the ON gate", but also used to refer to a branch/fork being worked on for a project that intends to develop separately for a while, then merge back, like "the ZFS gate". -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [osol-discuss] Simple Panels

2008-10-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
r you, a +1 here won't help. See the current process docs at: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/policies/project-instantiation.txt (The upcoming process drops this requirement, but isn't in place yet.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Micr

Re: [osol-discuss] snv 99 keeps blanking screen to draw new windows

2008-10-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ave been discussions between X.Org community developers and GNOME community developers about how best to fix this, but I don't think a fix is in place yet. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, I

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2008-10-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
make it available? "Letting Adobe make it available"? Who do you think is stopping Adobe other than Adobe's own management? They finally got enough customer demand to decide to do it for their next release: http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2008/05/adobe_reader_on_solaris_x86_co.htm

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2008-10-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ocused on OpenSolaris & the next release of Solaris. (The desktop-discuss forum/mailing list is where you can find the people working on the Solaris/OpenSolaris desktop if you have more questions/concerns.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsyst

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Matt Wilby wrote: > Still no sign of it, the latest ISO download is still at b99 for DVD & b98 > for CD. > > What's the delay with this release? snv_100 was respun a few days after the normal cycle to produce snv_100a. I would guess that also delayed the release cycle a bi

Re: [osol-discuss] AMD 3450 no driver

2008-10-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ation for Radeon graphics. At least some varients of it (PCI device id 0x95C5) are listed as having 2-D driver support in the radeonhd driver we ship with Xorg, but I don't know how good that support is. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, I

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Cyril Plisko wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Alan Coopersmith > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Matt Wilby wrote: >>> Still no sign of it, the latest ISO download is still at b99 for DVD & b98 >>> for CD. >>> >>> What's the

Re: [osol-discuss] nslookup question

2008-10-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ly. nslookup is specifically a DNS query tool, which ignores /etc/nsswitch.conf and always uses DNS and only DNS. You want to use "getent hosts" to use the nsswitch.conf facilities. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. -

Re: [osol-discuss] /etc/release on Solaris Express

2008-10-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 09 October 2008 -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
9% x86 and 0% SPARC, they've concentrated their optimization efforts there. - Virtually any graphics card on a PC of today is several generations newer than any SPARC graphics card you've used. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsyste

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ntegrated to X for nv_103. (Not that we have MMX/SSE on either at the moment, since we build with Studio 12, not gcc, though enabling the MMX/SSE acceleration in the libfb code that pixman will be replacing is one of the reasons Xorg is still built with gcc.) -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
enSolaris client would be. Follow the GNU autoconf philosophy - don't test for OS names and assume you know the feature set of all versions, past, present and future, of that OS -- test for the features you care about. If you write some complex test now to determine which is OpenSolaris 2008.

Re: [osol-discuss] [tools-discuss] Any xemacs users out there? I could use some advice wrt packaging xemacs for OpenSolaris

2008-11-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
rn desktops, better support for accessibility, and things users take for granted these days, such as font anti-aliasing. (BTW, I use xemacs for all my development work, so sign me up as a beta tester. I currently use the Studio bundled version on nevada.) -- -Alan Co

Re: [osol-discuss] *LOL* : - "Xorg on SPARC will not work with any driver except the included wsfb (which only works on m64 graphics in 8-bit mode) unless you get updated matching driver packages from

2008-12-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Martin Bochnig wrote: > ***LOL***: And here I thought the part you'd appreciate most was going to be that no one downloaded the builds I announced either. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Eng

Re: [osol-discuss] *LOL* : - "Xorg on SPARC will not work with any driver except the included wsfb (which only works on m64 graphics in 8-bit mode) unless you get updated matching driver packages from

2008-12-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ds for those workstations. Beyond those, we've discussed trying to get Martin's driver ports for the older boards into the contrib repo for OpenSolaris or even into the main repo as "not supported by Sun, but available for you to use", but not come to a final decision yet. -

Re: [osol-discuss] *LOL* : - "Xorg on SPARC will not work with any driver except the included wsfb (which only works on m64 graphics in 8-bit mode) unless you get updated matching driver packages from

2008-12-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Octave Orgeron wrote: > Agreed.. this is definitely pushing the SPARC workstation market to an end. Sun already ended sales of SPARC workstations several months ago - there's no more pushing to that point to do. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com

Re: [osol-discuss] *LOL* : - "Xorg on SPARC will not work with any driver except the included wsfb (which only works on m64 graphics in 8-bit mode) unless you get updated matching driver packages from

2008-12-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Timo Schoeler wrote: > thus Alan Coopersmith spake: >> Octave Orgeron wrote: >>> Agreed.. this is definitely pushing the SPARC workstation market to an end. >> Sun already ended sales of SPARC workstations several months ago - >> there's no more pushing to tha

Re: [osol-discuss] migrating issues from SXCE to 2008.11

2009-01-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
; when your clock is set correctly, to bring them into the 21st century - see: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4780 -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
th GNU utilities in the default path have been tracked so far at: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/showdependencytree.cgi?id=576&hide_resolved=0 Just need some engineers (in Sun or the community) to sign up to fix them. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopers

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
n process since you refuse to sign the Contributor Agreement and use the standard request-sponsor process? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discu

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
To add bugs to the list, you simply have to file them in bugzilla on defect.opensolaris.org, and list "576" in the bugs blocked field. I don't know enough about this issue to write a good bug report, but it sounds like you do. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coop

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
all Solaris functionality must be > present without depending on any GNU-licensed software? Nope, since most of our desktop functionality depends entirely on GNU licensed software. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window Sys

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
t;pfexec pkg install redistributable", but if you're not in the US, switch to a local mirror first. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> Brian Smith wrote: >>> Or, is >>> there some kind of rule that says that all Solaris functionality must be >>> present without depending on any GNU-licensed software? >> Nope, since most of our

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >>> Alan, you are missunderstanding Solaris. >>> >>> The basic OS (ON) should not depend on GPLd software. This is the same >>> approach >>> as the *BSD people use. >> So the basic O

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Enrico Maria Crisostomo wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Alan Coopersmith > wrote: >> Brian Smith wrote: >>> If a GNU utility is a proper superset of the Solaris version, would patches >>> to replace the Solaris version with the GNU version be accepted? >

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Report on issues when porting OpenSource projects to Solaris

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ns, as in: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libpciaccess/tree/src/common_interface.c#n39 I believe the versions are somewhat optimized, due to CR 6729208: Optimize BSWAP_* and BE_* macros in sys/byteorder.h to use inline amd64 assembly -- -Alan Coop

Re: [osol-discuss] [website-discuss] [osol-announce] SXCE Build 106 available

2009-01-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
US treat government agencies differently, but close enough). http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/fmac/ http://blogs.sun.com/aland/resource/smalley_09_25_2008.pdf -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Eng

[osol-discuss] Heads-Up: Xorg 1.5 integration to nv_107

2009-01-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-c", and is run with the real user's id with stdin and stdout set to the VT. The purpose of this option is to allow system dependent VT initialisation com- mands to be run. This option should rarely be needed. Defa

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta's CEO blogging about 2009, OpenStorage, GPL, CDDL, etc

2009-02-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
led, but that one should be fixable.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] isaexec?

2009-02-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to update the ON makefiles and package definitions, since that should be the bulk of the changes.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] anyone running into problems with xntpd on snv107 x86

2009-02-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
do?bug_id=6796948 sounds like very similar findings. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] osol-11 repair boot of new vmware guest install

2009-02-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
org.0.log, including a dump of the autoconfiguration settings you could copy into /etc/X11/xorg.conf if autoconfig is being used. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _

[osol-discuss] Nominations now open for 2009 OpenSolaris Governing Board elections

2009-02-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
The OpenSolaris Governing Board is now accepting nominations for candidates to run for the OGB term starting April 2009. Anyone registered with an account on the OpenSolaris.org website is eligible to be nominated, even if not currently recognized as a Core Contributor or Contributor to any exist

Re: [osol-discuss] b107 installation issues

2009-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to use? If it's SXCE, then just use text install - the SXCE GUI installer is broken on all x86 systems in b107 & b108. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] b107 installation issues

2009-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
base, G45 support integrated in build 92 - since 2008.11 was based on build 101, it should have it in there. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-dis

Re: [osol-discuss] b107 installation issues

2009-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Howard Yeh wrote: > But i can't figure out how to jump out of X to a tty to stop X and so > I can run Xorg -configure You have to kill the desktop with "svcadm disable gdm" and then restart it with "svcadm enable gdm" -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Poor interactive performance under heavy system load

2009-02-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
show the scheduler class for the processes. "priocntl -d -i class IA" will show an IAMODE of "1" for processes currently getting the priority boost. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Poor interactive performance under heavy system load

2009-02-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
sed the Xsun code to Roland at one point when he volunteered to port it, but have never gotten it done. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discus

Re: [osol-discuss] No login screen after creating .xorg.conf

2009-03-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ion "opensolaris-2" to edit xorg.conf? pfexec beadm mount opensolaris-2 /mnt -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] No login screen after creating .xorg.conf

2009-03-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Mike Gerdts wrote: > Upon starting X from the command line I found that it was complaining about > an rgb line in xorg.conf. Removing the offending rgb line made things > all better. Known bug in 107 & 108, fixed in 109: http://blogs.sun.com/alanc/entry/xorg_1_5_3_in --

Re: [osol-discuss] mouse in console mode

2009-03-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
& track mouse movements in the text console on SPARC, but it relies on the SPARC /dev/fb drivers which x86 systems don't have, and I never finished hooking it up to reading mouse input, though doing so shouldn't be hard, and the Xorg mouse driver should show how to read it. --

Re: [osol-discuss] Free CD

2009-03-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
5 is limited to 512Mb RAM, so the combined RAM requirements of ZFS root & IPS will likely make OpenSolaris very painful on such an old machine.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, I

Re: [osol-discuss] Free CD

2009-03-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ng developed for OpenSolaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] jre 1.4.2_16 javaws issue with Opensolaris

2009-03-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
f21/libmawt.so: >> ld.so.1: java: fatal: libXm.so.4: open failed: No such file or directory >> > libXm.so.4 which is the Motif library not part of the OpenSolaris. ...until the upcoming build 110 update to the /dev repo. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...

Re: [osol-discuss] [on-discuss] Emergency project to rescue Opensolaris from IBM (was: Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun)

2009-03-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
tion project for the past two years, please join their efforts and help them finish the work in progress, instead of starting anew: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/emancipation/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] IBM and Auschwitz __/__ Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ployees for the actions of some of their predecessors makes no more sense than blaming everyone in Germany today for the horrific actions taken by some of the people who were there 70 years ago.So like Jim, I don't see any real relevance to current events there. -- -Alan Coope

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!!! OpenSolaris 2008.11 numeric keypad moves the mouse cursor!!!!

2009-03-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
urn this off? Sounds like you turned on the "Mouse Keys" accessibility feature. Look in the keyboard accessibility preferences panel to turn it off. (This feature is in the core Xorg & GNOME code, so you could have hit the exact same issue on any Linux distro if you turned it on

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of

2009-03-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Solaris LiveCD installer ("Caiman") - the further development is happening there. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] compiling cvs emacs on osol

2009-03-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Martin Bochnig wrote: > Not sure if the OpenSolaris.com distro currently includes OpenMotif by > default (or at least in a repo). It does not. As of build 110, it includes the Solaris Motif 2.1 binaries though, in the /devel repo. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.co

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