Re: [osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-16 Thread Leslie H Wood
What does "pkg publisher" show... It looks like you missed the -P to me. pfexec pkg set-publisher -P -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev opensolaris.org Philip Brown wrote, On 08/16/10 16:33: On 08/13/10 04:53 AM, Philip Brown wrote: pfexec pkg set-publisher -Ohttp://pkg.opensolaris.org/d

Re: [osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-16 Thread Philip Brown
> On 08/13/10 04:53 AM, Philip Brown wrote: > > > pfexec pkg set-publisher > -Ohttp://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev opensolaris.org > pfexec pkg image-update Sooo.. I did that with the gui, and did the image-update.. and it failed miserably, as mentioned in my prior post. So now I'm trying to grab J

Re: [osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-16 Thread Ian Collins
On 08/17/10 09:31 AM, Philip Brown wrote: So, I did the "upgrade from dev" thing and it blew up. This is where it automatically installed a new "BE" for me to boot from. thank goodness. The score on my macbook pro i7 is now as follows: Solaris MU8: hang at initial text output from kernel O

Re: [osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-16 Thread Philip Brown
So, I did the "upgrade from dev" thing and it blew up. This is where it automatically installed a new "BE" for me to boot from. thank goodness. The score on my macbook pro i7 is now as follows: Solaris MU8: hang at initial text output from kernel OpenSolaris 2009.06: Loads okay! lets me lo

Re: [osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-12 Thread Philip Brown
Thanks for the tip. Hmm... there's something left to be desired, around the "pkg"/gui interface. the "old" original thing shows up in the package manager gui, as "opensolaris.org". the new, updated (through the gui, not command line i hve to confess) configured thingie, is ALSO just listed as "

Re: [osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-12 Thread Ian Collins
On 08/13/10 07:53 AM, Ian Collins wrote: On 08/13/10 04:53 AM, Philip Brown wrote: On 08/12/10 09:53 AM, Philip Brown wrote: Is there a "nice" way to do that (ie: some arg to pkg update-image), or do I have to do a full reinstall, after downloading an iso from there? If you source your pack

Re: [osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-12 Thread Ian Collins
On 08/13/10 04:53 AM, Philip Brown wrote: On 08/12/10 09:53 AM, Philip Brown wrote: Is there a "nice" way to do that (ie: some arg to pkg update-image), or do I have to do a full reinstall, after downloading an iso from there? If you source your packages from the

Re: [osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-12 Thread Philip Brown
> On 08/12/10 09:53 AM, Philip Brown wrote: > > Is there a "nice" way to do that (ie: some arg to > pkg update-image), or do I have to do a full > reinstall, after downloading an iso from there? > > > If you source your packages from the dev repro, you > can just do an update. > how do I do t

Re: [osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-12 Thread Ian Collins
On 08/12/10 09:53 AM, Philip Brown wrote: Is there a "nice" way to do that (ie: some arg to pkg update-image), or do I have to do a full reinstall, after downloading an iso from there? If you source your packages from the dev repro, you can just do an update. -- Ian. _

Re: [osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-11 Thread Philip Brown
Is there a "nice" way to do that (ie: some arg to pkg update-image), or do I have to do a full reinstall, after downloading an iso from there? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-11 Thread Thorsten Heit
Have you tried build 134 from from genunix.org? It's newer than the 2009.06 live CD and contains lots of fixes. AFAIK there's a text mode installer available there, too. Regards Thorsten -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-he

Re: [osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-10 Thread Philip Brown
More progress.. I managed to copy in, via a local MSDOS partition, the "bcme" drivers downloaded from broadcom's site. http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/driver-sla.php?driver=570x-Solaris Odd thing is, even though the postinstall stuff added in all the right-looking driver_aliases..

Re: [osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-10 Thread Philip Brown
Well... I've made SOME progress on my macbook pro install. I can coax the thing to display graphics in VESA mode, when I use Xorg -configure and then manually insert into the Monitor section, HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0 VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0 These were actually "autodetected" at some point a

[osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-09 Thread Philip Brown
I have a relatively new macbook pro. I can run opensolaris in openbox relatively okay. I can also boot the 2009 livecd. but I havent managed to install to hard drive yet. I'd appreciate some help. vesa mode does not work. This wouldnt be so difficult if there was a text mode installer, but... yeah