Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD graphics, revisited.

2018-05-16 Thread srvr_mnk
You have less than that. : - ) On 16.05.2018 13:24, Aurélien Larcher wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 7:18 PM, wrote: Hello All, I installed OI on another laptop, this one has AMD graphics 6310 (wrestler). This page:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD graphics, revisited.

2018-05-16 Thread srvr_mnk
Hello All, I installed OI on another laptop, this one has AMD graphics 6310 (wrestler). This page: https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Graphics+Adapters Indicates some support for AMD graphics card. Is there a way to extend this support, perhaps to include cards like this? I figure the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD graphics for OI?

2018-05-03 Thread srvr_mnk
If this is the case, we may need to look into getting things like Ardour, Blender and Cinelerra ported over as well. Then I can **FINALLY** get rid of Windows and make OI my primary audio/video production machine. I am not smart enough to port those programs over yet...but the idea of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD graphics for OI?

2018-05-02 Thread srvr_mnk
How does one fire up the VESA driver? Would ATI/AMD contribute to provide some kind of drivers if asked? There are two drivers for AMD (that I am aware of) MESA and AMD GPU PRO. The latter is needed for video production on Linux. MESA is not enough, and may be okay for gaming, but not video

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD graphics for OI?

2018-05-02 Thread srvr_mnk
https://xkcd.com/1508/ SM On 02.05.2018 02:32, Till Wegmüller wrote: Hi Well not that long, but definetly somewhere in that range I'm affraid. Unless somebody sneakily started a porting effort. Greetings Till On 02.05.2018 07:25, srvr_...@srvr-tmpl.ikhider.com wrote: Hello, I know there

[OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD graphics for OI?

2018-05-01 Thread srvr_mnk
Hello, I know there are graphics drivers for Nvidea hardware, but my hardware is AMD. What is the status for AMD grahics drivers on OI? Is it one of those long-term, "one day...when GNU HURD dominates the marketplace on consumer and enterprise systems". SM

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Does anyone else have Emacs issue?

2018-04-24 Thread srvr_mnk
: On 04/24/18 09:35 PM, srvr_mnk wrote: Greetings all, When ever I use emacs and paste a line of text or code into my buffer, I get 'Mark set' at the bottom of it and am locked from the session. I went on the emacs channel to find a way to break out of the lock, but there is nothing. The emacs

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Does anyone else have Emacs issue?

2018-04-24 Thread srvr_mnk
Greetings all, When ever I use emacs and paste a line of text or code into my buffer, I get 'Mark set' at the bottom of it and am locked from the session. I went on the emacs channel to find a way to break out of the lock, but there is nothing. The emacs sessions then greys-out and then

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Is SFE IPS Repository Down?

2018-04-22 Thread srvr_mnk
SFE seems to be back up if any one is interested. The updates went okay yesterday and today. -Srvr_mnk On 04/20/18 03:17 AM, Rasaki Temidire wrote: Thanks for responding so quickly Thomas and Till. I did disable the repository last night so I could get other packages installed from

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Is SFE IPS Repository Down?

2018-04-20 Thread srvr_mnk
on my machine. Srvr_mnk On 04/19/18 12:45 PM, Rasaki Temidire wrote: Hello Everyone, I have been trying to install packages from the SFE repository (http://sfe.opencsw.org/localhostoih) but the pkg command times out each time.  Tried pointing my browsers to the repository home page