On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:51:31AM +0100, Axel Burwitz wrote: > as a complete newbie to Solaris (FreeBSD and Linux user (various > distris)) I wanted to get some knowledge of opensolaris cpmpared to > FreeBSD and Linux. So I installed opensolaris from that "opensolaris > XXL" DVD attached to the German "iX" magazine.
I'm assuming that this DVD contains/is Solaris Express, since you didn't specify which OpenSolaris distribution it is and I don't have access to that DVD. > 2) The KDE version 3.1 is hopelessly old compared to the KDE 3.5.1 on my > BSD and Linux The Companion (on which KDE is found) will be opened to collaborative development soon. This reminds me of one problem I suspect we haven't done anything about yet, which is that KDE is actually in a separate gate from the rest of the Companion. I'll make a note of this and do what I can to get both of them out at the same time. Once it's open to development, I'd expect the work that many people here have done to get KDE working well on Solaris will be incorporated into the Companion. In the meantime, if you need a newer KDE, you can try the Blastwave packages (but be prepared to have a huge flood of other software added to your system even though it's already in Solaris). > 3) I can't change the display resolution as the KDE Control Center / > Peripherals / Display reproduceably always crashes and I don't find > anything like xorg.conf (and no hint in the docs..) > So it is kind of unusable.. There's no xorg.conf by default, but you're free to create one in /etc/X11. Xorg -configure or xorgcfg can help you with this. The X and install teams are working on integrating X configuration. Any program that crashes during normal operation has a bug; please file bugs at bugs.opensolaris.org. In this case, it sounds like the bug is in KDE; since the relevant bug category isn't yet available, just file it in some other category like xserver/xserver or JDS/GNOME for now and someone will move it to the right place for you. Be sure to include details like the backtrace or any more detailed diagnosis if you have it. Save the core file in case someone asks you for it later. Realistically, I don't expect anyone to work on this bug, though, since the KDE on the Companion today is, as you point out, somewhat dated. > 4) I don't get any IP-Connection, no ping, no nothing > As the naming system for network interfaces seem to be different from > BSD and Linux, I am even not sure if the install has found and > configured an ethernet card > All my tries with google and docs did not help, I even can't use > ifconfig as I don't see how the interface is called. > (I have a Intel onboard 100/1000 card. In Linux it is the ee100/1000 driver) Try ifconfig -a first. This device is probably e1000g0; if you don't see it, try ifconfig e1000g0 plumb. You should have been prompted to configure networking near the beginning of the installation process. In general the device naming should be very similar to FreeBSD's. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" Solaris Kernel Team "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
