[desktop-discuss] Choppy audio on decent hardware

2009-07-12 Thread Mark Wright
An alternative is to play audio with mplayer, and to give it real time priority like: # priocntl -s -c RT -i pid `pgrep mplayer` I'm not sure if it would be a good idea to give a gui application like rhythmbox real time priority. --

[desktop-discuss] SFEemacs.spec

2009-04-19 Thread Mark Wright
Hi, You can always build the latest emacs from subversion. I cobbled together the spec file below for that from the SFEemacs-xft.spec. The differences are: (1) Checkout and tar up the latest cvs emacs yourself: To checkout emacs: cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/ema

[desktop-discuss] Please upload dtlogin-integration-0.37.tar.bz2

2008-12-19 Thread Mark Wright
Hi, Can someone at Sun please upload dtlogin-integration-0.37.tar.bz2? Thanks, Mark This is to fix the following error building JDS gnome 2.24: goanna% pkgtool --topdir /h/goanna/2/os_5.10/jt --with-sun-branding --with-l10n --without-apoc-adapter --download --without-java build SUNWgnome-dtlo

[desktop-discuss] vlc on solaris 10

2008-08-19 Thread Mark Wright
When I went to http://blastwave.org a week or 2 ago, it just had a notice that it had shutdown. I just tried it now, the website does not respond. Although SFE says it does not support solaris 10, and lots of the SFE packages have dependencies on packages that only exist in nevada, I think mplaye

[desktop-discuss] corrupted nimbus tarball?

2008-08-05 Thread Mark Wright
Hi Ghee, Damien uploaded it for me on Jun 4th: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/jds/downloads/extras/nimbus-0.0.16.tar.bz2 and it was OK when I downloaded it then. I have the file if you want me to upload it somewhere. goanna% bzip2 -tv nimbus-0.0.16.tar.bz2 nimbus-0.0.16.tar.bz2: ok goanna% ls -al

[desktop-discuss] Souce file for CBE 1.7.0 rc1 is corrupted

2008-07-30 Thread Mark Wright
It was corrupt when I tried to download it earlier as well, I notice my file size is different to yours. goanna% bzip2 -tv desktop-cbe-src-1.7.0-rc1.tar.bz2 desktop-cbe-src-1.7.0-rc1.tar.bz2: file ends unexpectedly You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover data from undamage

[desktop-discuss] fonts problems in StarOffice8 and Solaris 10 sparc

2008-07-03 Thread Mark Wright
problem or not. Thanks, Mark On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:58:11 +0200 Gerard Henry wrote: > Mark Wright wrote: > > So I can guess: there was a compiler optimization bug that affected > > the build of freetype in solaris 10. Please check if you have > > sparc patch 119812 installed. >

[desktop-discuss] fonts problems in StarOffice8 and Solaris 10 sparc

2008-07-03 Thread Mark Wright
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:04:24 +0200 Gerard Henry wrote: > hello all, > i have a problem with a document that isn't well displayed when i'm > on solaris 10 (sparc, sunray server). You can see the problem here: > http://www.latp.univ-mrs.fr/~henry/Solaris/dl/pb_formules.odt > If it works, you see: >

[desktop-discuss] Songbird porting...

2008-06-19 Thread Mark Wright
Hi,, I was wondering if anyone knows where the source code is for songbird? Compiling it from SFE fails, I look around on the site and I can not find this file? The file name does not include sun or or solaris or anything, yet it was in a sun directory. goanna% pkgtool --download build SFEsongb

[desktop-discuss] firefox3rc1 issue

2008-06-19 Thread Mark Wright
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:10:58 -0500 James Cornell wrote: > Nikolay Molchanov wrote: > >> After adding this package /opt/sfw/bin/firefox fires up 2.0.0.14 > >> for me running it on 2008-05. > >> > > > > Which package? firefox-3.0rc1.en-US.solaris11-i386-pkg? > > I have the same problem on my T

[desktop-discuss] nVidia driver 96.43.05 install OK, but GLX not available.

2008-06-17 Thread Mark Wright
Hello shao xuan, That is great that glx works. However I do not know how to make compiz work, sorry, hopefully someone else knows how to (I compiled compiz on my solaris 10u5 box, all the window title bars disappear if I enable compiz). Thanks, Mark On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:06:31 PDT Shao Xuan w

[desktop-discuss] nVidia driver 96.43.05 install OK, but GLX not available.

2008-06-17 Thread Mark Wright
Hello shao xuan, After the line: Section "Files" Please try instead adding 3 ModulePath lines: ModulePath "/usr/X11/lib/modules/extensions/NVIDIA" ModulePath "/usr/X11/lib/modules/extensions" ModulePath "/usr/X11/lib/modules" like in the following diffs: goanna

[desktop-discuss] opera-9.5 for solaris

2008-06-16 Thread Mark Wright
Hello dick, Well, fine, you can install the tar file instead of the package, and install it wherever you like. When I downloaded it for Solaris X86 its called: opera-9.50.gcc3-static-qt3.tar.bz2 Thanks, Mark On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:48:08 +0200 dick hoogendijk wrote: > I thought I'd give Opera

[desktop-discuss] nVidia driver 96.43.05 install OK, but GLX not available.

2008-06-16 Thread Mark Wright
Hello shao xuan, Thanks, the Xorg.0.log contains these lines: (II) LoadModule: "glx" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module glx (II) UnloadModule: "glx" (EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0) I am kind of guessing. As root please try editing the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. After t

[desktop-discuss] nVidia driver 96.43.05 install OK, but GLX not available.

2008-06-16 Thread Mark Wright
> Hello Mark, > > Thanks for your help. The output you request: shaoxuan at saturn:~# ldd /usr/X11/lib/modules/extensions/NVIDIA/libglx.so.1 libGLcore.so.1 =>/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 libnvidia-tls.so.1 =>/usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.1 librt.so.1 =>/lib/librt.s

[desktop-discuss] nVidia driver 96.43.05 install OK, but GLX not available.

2008-06-14 Thread Mark Wright
Hello shao xuan, Please send us: (1) the outputs of ldd /usr/X11/lib/modules/extensions/NVIDIA/libglx.so.1 (2) the file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log (3) the file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Thanks, Mark --

[desktop-discuss] nVidia driver 96.43.05 install OK, but GLX not available.

2008-06-14 Thread Mark Wright
Hi shao xuan, If you like, you can download the latest Solaris nvidia drivers at: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp The instructions are at: http://us.download.nvidia.com/solaris/173.14.05/README/part-01.html and I think what you need to do is log out of X-Windows, and in a roo

[desktop-discuss] JDS gnome 2.22.2 on sol10u5

2008-06-13 Thread Mark Wright
he X-Windows client development enviroment. gnome-2-22/SUNWmyspell-dictionary-l10n.spec -> That's only because I do not have the file: http://www.deso-se.com.br/downloads/download.php/pt_BR-2700g.zip > Hi Mark, > > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 02:54 +1000, Mark Wright wrote:

[desktop-discuss] JDS gnome 2.22.2 on sol10u5

2008-06-12 Thread Mark Wright
Hi, This is just in case anyone is interested in JDS gnome 2.22.2 on Solaris 10u5. Stefan Teleman from the KDE4 project ported HAL to Solaris 10u5. Instructions for building it are at: http://www.users.on.net/~markwright/?x=entry:entry080603-090223 With HAL, JDS gnome 2.22.2 compiles and runs a

[desktop-discuss] please upload nimbus-0.0.16.tar.bz2 ?

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Wright
Great, thanks, downloaded fine now. Thanks very much, Mark On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:11:33 PDT Damien Carbery wrote: > File was not world readable. Fixed. > There is not time-to-propagate so you can hassle us as soon as you > see an error. > > Strange, the script I use has "chmod 666 $Filename".

[desktop-discuss] please upload nimbus-0.0.16.tar.bz2 ?

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Wright
Hi, I waited hours in case it took took time to propagate? It still does not let me download the file though. Would be really neat to be able to build JDS using nimbus. This is the build download command that fails to download it for me, been trying for hours. goanna% pkgtool --with-sun-branding

[desktop-discuss] please upload nimbus-0.0.16.tar.bz2 ?

2008-06-04 Thread Mark Wright
Thanks very much. Regards, Mark This message posted from opensolaris.org

[desktop-discuss] please upload nimbus-0.0.16.tar.bz2 ?

2008-06-03 Thread Mark Wright
Hi, I was wondering if you can please upload nimbus-0.0.16.tar.bz2 so I can fix this pkgtool build error with jds gnome 2.22? SUNWgnome-themes | FAILED | Source http://dlc.sun.com/osol/jds/downloads/extras/nimbus-0.0.16.tar.bz2 not found Thanks, Mark This message posted from opensolari

[desktop-discuss] What authorities/profile needed to build and install from SFE?

2008-05-11 Thread Mark Wright
For the profile, please see: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/contributing/building/ When building SFE packages on Solaris 10u4 x86 sometimes pkgtool may fail to apply the package due to some attribute change, like in the example below. Then I just pkgadd it manually. Regards, Mark %

[desktop-discuss] Csound

2008-03-06 Thread Mark Wright
Hello Sergio, When linking executables and shared libraries, the build will be passing: -L directory to the linker to say where to find the libraries. It might be less confusing to pass -R directory for Solaris ld or -rpath directory for gnu ld for every -L directory to try to hard code the lib

[desktop-discuss] Csound

2008-03-03 Thread Mark Wright
Hello Sergio, You could try running ldd on each of the plugin shared libraries, like: /usr/pkg/lib/csound/plugins/libampmidid.so etc. The LD_DEBUG=files should continue to produce output while it is trying to load the plugins. So if one is missing a symbol it will complain, we would need to see

[desktop-discuss] Csound

2008-03-02 Thread Mark Wright
Hello Sergio, I haven't tried to build Csound. To try to figure out why it can't open its own libraries it might help to try running: ldd Csound And to try running Csound with the ld.so.1 LD_DEBUG environment variable (described in man ld.so.1): export LD_DEBUG=files Csound >ld_debug_files.ou

[desktop-discuss] Eklga OSS Solaris read fails with EAGAIN

2007-11-02 Thread Mark Wright
Hello Elaine, Thanks very much for your hard work on maintaining Ekiga. Elaine wrote: > > Mark, > > I think the read problem is located in OSS driver. You can try > ossrecord to prove it. ossrecord works fine. I'm kind of new to OSS. I find that tweaking the settings in ossxmix helps with get

[desktop-discuss] Eklga OSS Solaris read fails with EAGAIN

2007-11-02 Thread Mark Wright
Hello, Please find below diffs for a proposed fix for the following problem encountered with JDS from the gnome-2-20 branch compiled on Solaris 10u4 with oss-solaris-v4.0-1008-i386.pkg: Page 7/10 of the Ekiga 2.0.11 configuration druid: Please choose the audio output device: /dev/dsp Please ch

[desktop-discuss] JDS Solaris 10u4

2007-11-02 Thread Mark Wright
27;ve done with sound so far is to make Ekiga work with OSS, I'll post another thread about that. Other things with sound fail, maybe because of me building liboil with Sun Studio 12, one error is: Failed to construct test pipeline for 'gconfaudiosrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample !

[desktop-discuss] JDS Solaris 10u4

2007-10-29 Thread Mark Wright
Hi, I raised the following bug reports with some proposed fixes for compiling JDS on Solaris 10u4 with Sun Studio 11: CR 6623026 Undefined symbol bus_config_parser_check_doctype linking dbus-daemon-launch-help CR 6623029 libgnomeprint-2.0-font-install link Undefined symbol floor CR 6623126 music

[desktop-discuss] SUNWIPython-manpages-0.1.tar.gz not found

2007-10-29 Thread Mark Wright
Hello Glynn, Thanks, that fixed that problem. Thanks, Mark This message posted from opensolaris.org

[desktop-discuss] SUNWIPython-manpages-0.1.tar.gz not found

2007-10-29 Thread Mark Wright
Hi, I was wondering if you could please give me a pointer to where to download SUNWIPython-manpages-0.1.tar.gz? Building JDS from the current spec files on Solaris 10u4 x86 fails when it wants this file. (There are other issues, I will raise bug reports with proposed fixes on those, more news o

[desktop-discuss] warning: spec-files-extra

2007-07-16 Thread Mark Wright
The only way I know to make changes to /etc/nsswitch.conf take affect is to reboot. Adding the following line to /etc/hosts: 66.35.250.146 svn.sourceforge.net and with /etc/nsswitch.conf containing: hosts: files dns Works for me. This message posted from opensolaris.org

[desktop-discuss] Ekiga fails to run

2007-07-05 Thread Mark Wright
Maybe you could alter the spec file to use the compiler options to generate machine code your CPU understands: /jds/spec-files/SUNWgnome-meeting.spec And build it. It works on snv_66 vermillion b68 on an Opteron box. This message posted from opensolaris.org