[osol-help] Installing and running Gimp

2009-10-10 Thread Steven Acres
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[osol-help] Installing and running Gimp

2009-10-10 Thread Steven Acres
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[osol-help] Installing and running Gimp

2009-10-10 Thread david
Thanks for the quick response. I can start the program from the command line but pkill did not make it appear in the menu. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Live CD issues

2009-10-10 Thread krisw
the problem with solaris is there is no support and its very complicated - you can pick up things here n there but in my experience all my data is on it and nobody can help me get it off there. you surely dont want to get into that situation. ive been on this forum a month and nobody can figure

[osol-help] Installing and running Gimp

2009-10-10 Thread david
I used the addmoresoftware utility to install Gimp but it was not added to the graphics menu and it is not listed as a program in the "open with" list. Summary: The Gimp image editor Size: 27.29 MB Category: Applications/Graphics and Imaging Ins

[osol-help] Marvell Yukon Ethernet Driver Help!

2009-10-10 Thread W Brian Leonard
Hi Shaggy, Try Step 8 of the instructions posted here: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/05/_opensolaris_20.html Should do the trick, Brian Mundy Mulligan wrote: > I am new to OpenSolaris. I have just burnt a disk and installed it. I have 2 > drivers to get installed. First is

[osol-help] Very slow boot times under VirtualBox

2009-10-10 Thread Steven Acres
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[osol-help] Marvell Yukon Ethernet Driver Help!

2009-10-10 Thread Mundy Mulligan
I suppose you may cringe, but, I am more confused now. In the link you posted, step 8, it shows 64 bit. I think I have 32 bit. Secondly my wireless is working already. I am using it to write this now. Do I need to do anything with it? I mean, do I need to uninstall it before making the wired int

[osol-help] ayuda wifi satelite l305

2009-10-10 Thread luis requena
Hola acabo de instalar el opensolaris el cd lo encontre pork en la universidad llegaron unas personas de solaris y nos pasaron un livecd lo instale y no tengo idea como activar el wifi el modelo es satellite l305 sp6943c no detecta ninguna se?al y al parecer hay un programa para ver los control

[osol-help] Dial Up

2009-10-10 Thread Matt
Ahh, I think mine might be some kind of winmodem. Do you know if you can get 'real' modems that are half high, because my computer can only take a half high PCI card -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Marvell Yukon Ethernet Driver Help!

2009-10-10 Thread Mundy Mulligan
I am new to OpenSolaris. I have just burnt a disk and installed it. I have 2 drivers to get installed. First is most important, the Ethernet driver. I have seen posts around the net of people downloading a driver to install but have not found one. Where do I look? I did scanpci and got this info

[osol-help] How to configure a new window manager in OpenSolaris?

2009-10-10 Thread Pen-Yuan Hsing
Hello, Please excuse my ignorance as a totally new user of OpenSolaris (and unix/linux systems!). Is there a way to easily install alternative window mangers such as Openbox or Fluxbox for this system? I've got two questions that are more specific: 1. Are there any specific tips for compiling an

[osol-help] Wireless slow - Intel 4965AG

2009-10-10 Thread Walter White
No, I don't have a spare drive to test this on. Walter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Very slow boot times under VirtualBox

2009-10-10 Thread Pen-Yuan Hsing
Hello, I am a new user running OpenSolaris 2009.06 under VirtualBox 3.0.8 and it takes almost 5 minutes for it to boot up. Is this normal behaviour? Somehow I expected boot times to be much faster than this! Is there anything I could do to optimise boot performance? Thanks! -- This message post

[osol-help] OSS in OpenSolaris under Virtualbox still not working

2009-10-10 Thread Pen-Yuan Hsing
Hello, I have OpenSolaris 2009.06 running on VirtualBox 3.0.8 with Mac OS X 10.5.8 host. I've tried for a week with no success to get sound to work in this system. I've followed the instructions to remove the original audiohd drivers and replace it with OSS from this blog entry: http://blogs.su

[osol-help] virtualbox

2009-10-10 Thread philo neo
hi, i install virtual box of osol, but when i try to install linux ubuntu64 or win xp pro, i have a same error messsage : FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted. i use an best distribution 64bit but i don't understand. thanks philo -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Dell d610 Wireless driver help

2009-10-10 Thread Tomas Bodzar
RTFG http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ndis/ your card is supported trough ndis with drivers from Windows. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Live CD issues

2009-10-10 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Try dev build (aka OpenSolaris 2010.02 preview). Download here http://www.genunix.org/distributions/indiana/osol-1002-124-x86.iso -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] SXCE b124 install

2009-10-10 Thread Jürgen Keil
> SXCE support will end this month. Recommended > solution is OpenSolaris. So install OpenSolaris. I suspect that this is some low level kernel / driver issue. How exactly is installing OpenSolaris instead of SX:CE going to help in this case, since both share the same ON core kernel bits? -- Thi

[osol-help] SXCE b124 install

2009-10-10 Thread Jürgen Keil
> My computer is a laptop HP dv9000 (dv9790ef to be > precise). I've installed SXCE B124. During the first > reboot, an error message appears, but the computer > finally booted and I can use SXCE. Tell us the exact error message that was reported ... > I reboot the computer. Again the message, bu

[osol-help] Dial Up

2009-10-10 Thread Tomas Bodzar
If your modem is some type of winmodem (softmodem) then I think that you can't use it under Solaris/OpenSolaris. You will need real modem. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] SXCE b124 install

2009-10-10 Thread Tomas Bodzar
SXCE support will end this month. Recommended solution is OpenSolaris. So install OpenSolaris. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Problem on boot

2009-10-10 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I have opensolaris on virtualbox, I installed well, > no problem, ran it well, and all that stuff, but > suddenly when I boot solaris only boot me on console > mode. Did you check the Xorg and gdm log files for errors ? /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/gdm/ -- This message posted from opensolar

[osol-help] SXCE b124 install

2009-10-10 Thread Dominique Liard
Hello. My computer is a laptop HP dv9000 (dv9790ef to be precise). I've installed SXCE B124. During the first reboot, an error message appears, but the computer finally booted and I can use SXCE. I reboot the computer. Again the message, but it is not possible to complete the boot. Periodicall