Re: [osol-help] Failed to start X server( several forum suggestions failed )

2009-10-18 Thread suraj
I again tried.. #pfexec svcadm restart gdm now this time it took me to login screen and was able to login. is there any permanent solution to this ? any pkg's needs to be installed ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help m

Re: [osol-help] printer

2009-10-18 Thread evelin
it doesnt work where exactly do u put this lines -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] gparted for opensolaris

2009-10-18 Thread Paul Gress
evelin wrote: does it has a different name other than gparted in opensolaris, cause i dont see it in ubuntu is in system administration and gparted but i dont find it anywhere in opensolaris, maybe its not installed, and if it is so, it there a command to install gparted ? Gparted is only

[osol-help] Failed to start X server( several forum suggestions failed )

2009-10-18 Thread suraj
Hi All, I've installed the opensolaris 2009.06 on a SUN Virtualbox 3.0.8 Once the grub loader starts , it does not take me to GUI login screen. It takes me directly to the console login prompt. I browsed through many forums and tried many of the steps they suggested like : (1). I adde

[osol-help] Installing in a windows7 virtual PC

2009-10-18 Thread Gary Hutchison
I cannot get opensolaris to install in a windows7 native virtual pc. Is there a setting I am missing? the boot starts but complains about an "ata1" pci failure. Has anybody else been succesful in this type of install? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [osol-help] printer

2009-10-18 Thread Tom Whitten
evelin writes: > hello, when i connect the printer solaris detects it but when i try to print > something it yust says processing work but it never prints my printer is an > hp deskjet 3420 and its not a printer problem cause with ubuntu it works > fine, is there something im missing for solari

[osol-help] how to manage the disk

2009-10-18 Thread evelin
hello, how do i manage disk in open solaris by commands or something pos: i know gparted exist but i need to manage partitions inside the system even if it just manage the solaris partition -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-he

[osol-help] Bad pbr

2009-10-18 Thread W. Charles Alexander
I have a Dell Dimension 4600 P 4 2.8 G 1 G Ram It has a 80 G IDE HD with Windows XP and I put a 160 G SATA HD in and installed Linux (w/swap) and then Opensolaris (So OpenSolaris's grub would be installed). 2009.06 . The 160 G was 50G Linux - 4 G swap - bal OpenSolaris - I even changed the swap p

Re: [osol-help] Need advice to fix OpenSolaris GRUBs menu.lst to boot OSs on other partitions.

2009-10-18 Thread Tom Whitten
Luis Maceira writes: > I edited the menu.lst in /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst to boot Linuxes on other > partitions,the > entries appear on the menu,but when I choose them GRUB does not find the path > to the > file(kernel) and gives a warning.The same entries worked normally when the > Ubuntu Linux

Re: [osol-help] gparted for opensolaris

2009-10-18 Thread evelin
does it has a different name other than gparted in opensolaris, cause i dont see it in ubuntu is in system administration and gparted but i dont find it anywhere in opensolaris, maybe its not installed, and if it is so, it there a command to install gparted ? -- This message posted from opensol

Re: [osol-help] gparted for opensolaris

2009-10-18 Thread Alan Steinberg
gparted is actually now on OpenSolaris as of the latest build 125, including the LiveCD. This is very handy for partitioning a disk when running off of the LiveCD. No need to download and create a separate Linux ISO image of it (as I have done in the past). -- Alan evelin wrote: hello is the

[osol-help] printer

2009-10-18 Thread evelin
hello, when i connect the printer solaris detects it but when i try to print something it yust says processing work but it never prints my printer is an hp deskjet 3420 and its not a printer problem cause with ubuntu it works fine, is there something im missing for solaris -- This message post

Re: [osol-help] begginer help

2009-10-18 Thread evelin
thanks for the help guys -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Audio hangs on opensolaris bn_124?

2009-10-18 Thread Mike Meyer
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:14:32 PDT Jürgen Keil wrote: > > > Try to get a stack backtrace for the hanging esdplay process, > > > using "pstack PID", where PID is the process id of the hanging > > > esdplay process. > > > > sensei$ pfexec pstack 17016 > > 17016: /usr/bin/esdplay /export/home/mwm/sou

[osol-help] gparted for opensolaris

2009-10-18 Thread evelin
hello is there something laike gparted or gparted for opensolaris -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] BCM4309 wifi driver

2009-10-18 Thread GONTHIER olivier
My build version is 111. Is it possible that a more recent version fix this bug ? Can somebody explain me how to update it? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Audio hangs on opensolaris bn_124?

2009-10-18 Thread Jürgen Keil
Added a CC to opensound-discuss... > > Try to get a stack backtrace for the hanging esdplay process, > > using "pstack PID", where PID is the process id of the hanging > > esdplay process. > > sensei$ pfexec pstack 17016 > 17016: /usr/bin/esdplay /export/home/mwm/sounds/westminister/west45.wav

Re: [osol-help] Marvell Yukon Ethernet Driver Help! (YUKONXsolx -> yge)

2009-10-18 Thread Roman Ivanov
Neither Marvell Yukon Ethernet Controller v10.0.3.3, no yge works for my Marvell Yukon 88E8036 Fast Ethernet Controller in build 125. Have to stay on build 124. on build 124: yukonx0 is /p...@0,0/pci8086,2...@1c,4/pci104d,9...@0 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris and Mepis Linux on the same machine

2009-10-18 Thread Magnus Johansson
When OpenSolaris starts I get the screen with the orange bar running in its slot. The hard drive then stops working and nothing more happens. If I then press a key I get into text mode and am prompted for user name and password, but strangely enough the system does not recognize my user names. -

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Re: [osol-help] Audio hangs on opensolaris bn_124?

2009-10-18 Thread Mike Meyer
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:03:19 PDT Jürgen Keil wrote: > > I've got an interesting problem with audio on svn_124. > > Which audio hardware? Built into the motherboard. > What does "cat /dev/sndstat" report? sensei$ cat /dev/sndstat SunOS Audio Framework Audio Devices: 0: audio810#0 Intel AC'97,

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris and Mepis Linux on the same machine

2009-10-18 Thread Kaya Saman
Kaya and others, For those who upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10, it uses grub2. In case you didn't see my other post on this... I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 beta on another partition and let it write over my MBR with grub2. Under grub 2 I added menuentry "OpenSolaris" { set root=(hd1,1) chainloader +

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris and Mepis Linux on the same machine

2009-10-18 Thread Tomas Bodzar
I can see in his link http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/triple_boot_part_5_reinstalling solution for your question. So OK, you were simply wrong then. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@o

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris and Mepis Linux on the same machine

2009-10-18 Thread Bob Plantz
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 16:16 +0300, Kaya Saman wrote: > > title OpenSolaris > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > > where rootnoverify is the number should be the partition and disk of Sol ;-) > > --Kaya > ___ Kaya and others, For those w

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris and Mepis Linux on the same machine

2009-10-18 Thread Kaya Saman
Magnus Johansson wrote: Thank you, Kaya! That worked fine. Unfortunately my installation of OpenSolaris do not want to start Gnome now, so I am past one problem but stuck with another. Any suggestions? Does the cli console give any information output on bootup?? As in transitioned to main

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris and Mepis Linux on the same machine

2009-10-18 Thread Magnus Johansson
Thank you, Kaya! That worked fine. Unfortunately my installation of OpenSolaris do not want to start Gnome now, so I am past one problem but stuck with another. Any suggestions? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing l

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris and Mepis Linux on the same machine

2009-10-18 Thread Kaya Saman
Magnus Johansson wrote: bodie: "It is a help." OK, you were simply wrong then. Hope you did learn something too. Didn't get this!! ^ The file you will need to edit is /boot/grub/menu.lst First login as root: su - in a shell then either use nano, vi, vim or whatever cli text editor you pre

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris and Mepis Linux on the same machine

2009-10-18 Thread Magnus Johansson
bodie: "It is a help." OK, you were simply wrong then. Hope you did learn something too. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris and Mepis Linux on the same machine

2009-10-18 Thread Kaya Saman
Magnus Johansson wrote: Thank you for the information, Andrew. I would want to use your first alternative with the Mepis Linux GRUB as my primary bootloader. How do I chainload OpenSolaris GRUB from Mepis Linux GRUB? Regards, Magnus title OpenSolaris rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader

Re: [osol-help] Upgrading from snv99 and also quick hypervisor (virtualization) question

2009-10-18 Thread Kaya Saman
I really don't want to migrate the setup to a new instance of OpenSol! As in I don't want install snv_125 then transfer all settings and config and also rebuild up my zones :-) ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.o

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris and Mepis Linux on the same machine

2009-10-18 Thread Magnus Johansson
Thank you for the information, Andrew. I would want to use your first alternative with the Mepis Linux GRUB as my primary bootloader. How do I chainload OpenSolaris GRUB from Mepis Linux GRUB? Regards, Magnus -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-help] Upgrading from snv99 and also quick hypervisor (virtualization) question

2009-10-18 Thread Kaya Saman
Kaya Saman wrote: [code] s:~# pkg image-update Creating Plan -pkg: image-update failed (inventory exception): No matching package could be found for the following FMRIs in any of the catalogs for the current authorities: pkg:/sunwpython-m...@0.2.2,5.11-0.99 [/code] What does inventory exc

[osol-help] USB keyboard language selection screen with dead keyboard

2009-10-18 Thread Christian Fluegel
For the record I already found and read: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=415812񥡄 I have a similar problem when installing an 2009.06 SB image. Config: Point of View ION330 Geforce 9400 2 GB of RAM Intel Atom 330 PS/2 Keyboard The boot proceeds to usb keyboard language sel

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris and Mepis Linux on the same machine

2009-10-18 Thread Tomas Bodzar
It is a help. But this you will find before posting your question, right? A lot of similar solutions around Internet or docs.sun.com or GAG http://gag.sourceforge.net/ runs fine with a lot of OS's. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ openso

Re: [osol-help] background images

2009-10-18 Thread Paul Johnston
You go in via System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Background Then you can add your own stuff which I guess is what your after :-) Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris and Mepis Linux on the same machine

2009-10-18 Thread andrew
> Dear computer experts, > I am trying to set up a dual boot computer with > OpenSolaris and Mepis Linux, but I have problems > getting GRUB to include both operating systems. In > the OpenSolaris GRUB, Mepis Linux does not show up, > and in the Mepis Linux GRUB, OpenSolaris is not > available. I h

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris and Linux Mepis on the same machine

2009-10-18 Thread Magnus Johansson
Thank you for your advice, Brian. I am looking into that. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris and Mepis Linux on the same machine

2009-10-18 Thread Magnus Johansson
bodie (Tomas): "Without outputs of what you changed or actual settings of grub no one can help you." So Brian's help isn't any help at all, right? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolari

Re: [osol-help] snv-111-b won't install on intellistation a pro 6224

2009-10-18 Thread Jürgen Keil
> the configuring devices cursor just blinks for a > minute then it tries to dump installation error but > says no device is configured and reboots. Sounds like a kernel panic. Edit the grub boot commands and append options " -kv" at the end of the kernel line. Boot using the modified grub boot

Re: [osol-help] Audio hangs on opensolaris bn_124?

2009-10-18 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I've got an interesting problem with audio on svn_124. Which audio hardware? What does "cat /dev/sndstat" report? > I'm at a loss > as to what to try next, partly because this is one of those nasty > intermittent problems. > > I'm trying to play chimes on the quarter hour. I invoke a simple sh

Re: [osol-help] Upgrading from snv99 and also quick hypervisor (virtualization) question

2009-10-18 Thread Kaya Saman
[code] s:~# pkg image-update Creating Plan -pkg: image-update failed (inventory exception): No matching package could be found for the following FMRIs in any of the catalogs for the current authorities: pkg:/sunwpython-m...@0.2.2,5.11-0.99 [/code] What does inventory exception mean and how