ken mays wrote:
[...]
<Sidenote: I got the same monitor resolution setting
at bootup of 1400x1050 as I did during Nexenta bootup
- this never happens with Linux Live-CD/DVDs). I go
into Control Panel->Desktop->Screen as reset to
1024x768 and everything is fine. Monitor detection and
setup with Xorg on Solaris needs review. I notice Xorg
6.9cvs was built on Belenix 0.3 (not 0.4) as well from
Dec 2005. Maybe the official release of Xorg 6.9 fixed
this?>
Yes this will improve. There are two aspects. I will reduce the default
max resolution to 1024x768 and will include higher a res only if the
monitor EDID data conclusively indicates that is possible.
Secondly the ddcxinfo utility only looks at standard and established
timings and some monitors like the laptop ones do not supply these. So
it needs to use the detailed timings as well. I am merging in the
detailed
timing parsing code from the read-edid utility.
In addition I am also thinking of asking the user to confirm/modify
some of the Xorg configuration elements before starting Xorg.
A few things I noticed (space reasons?):
1.Missing were the other KDE packages (i.e. KDE
Educational, KDEGames, etc.). The KDE Educational
(http://edu.kde.org/development/3.5improvements.php)
has some worthy educational programs on it which would
have been great to show off in school environments. A
full implementation of KDE 3.5.1 would make this
perfect for KDE conferences, engagements, and
journalism efforts. Otherwise, good job here.
There is still space for all these. However I intentionally left out a
few things in order to get feedback on what further stuff to include.
2. Xscreensaver had a few of the screensavers missing
or not working. Otherwise, I'm glad Xscreensaver was
included and a lot of GL screensavers worked fine with
Xorg 6.9. No crashes during random screensaver
playback within the first 5 minutes. Please add
Xscreensaver 4.24 to the next update. Mesa 6.4.2 and
the official release of Xorg 6.9 are worthy upgrades
as well.
3. Quanta Plus 3.5.1 mentions Kommander
(http://dot.kde.org/1087424515/) and Tidy was
missing? Might want to look into that.
4. Firefox 1.5 beta. Please add v1.5.0.1 or higher -
or maybe even SeaMonkey would be the successor
Internet browser suite.
Yes these upgrades were not done due to time constraints. Otherwise
this release would have taken 2 more weeks. I am a bit confused about
the redistribution terms for the SUN Studio C++ runtimes (libCrun,
libCstd etc). Once this is worked out I can just distribute the Nevada
binaries of Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice and have other stuff
built with SUN Studio as well.
6. Install to Hard drive...
A basic Perl-based installer is already present. Just execute hdinstaller
from a terminal window. There is however a lot of work needed here.
Maybe a port of Anaconda will be a good option.
7. Nvidia 81.78+ drivers for Solaris with GLUT
missing. This is the icebreaker.
Need to check licensing/redistribution terms.
8. More usage of a 700MB CD. I think only 617MB gets
used which could have included a few of the additional
pieces.
Yep. As I said, I intentionally left some space to get feedback on what
other software will be useful to include.
9. Build 34 of Nevada.
0.4.1 will have this. I need to upgrade my box to build this.
The other things were just some observations, not show
stoppers. Belenix 0.4 is truely one of the best
Solaris distros. I think a few official updates to
critical pieces like Xorg 6.9/7.0 and Mesa 6.4.2 will
help the desktop environment as well as support for
many things mentioned in the OpenSolaris desktop group
discussions.
Thanks for your detailed suggestions/observations. They are really
helpful.
Regards,
Moinak.
~Ken Mays
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