Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source code management selection, draft

2006-04-10 Thread Casper . Dik
- Availability: Neither Suse Linux or any BSD variants (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD) provide Mercurial packages as part of their distributions. Choosing a niece product may not be wise. git, Subversion and bitkeeper are not only more popular - they are also much more widespread and better

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: BeleniX 0.4.2 Released

2006-04-10 Thread Venky
I am also attaching a screenshot showing how KWord is behaviing strangely, ie, fonts are shown with a red-colored vertical bar at the beginning position of each character. (OOps, for some reason I am not allowed to attach a file.) Assuming that the screenshot is not too large, you could

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-10 Thread Jürgen Keil
It hangs in GRUB's gateA20() subroutine, How did you figure it out?!?!?!?! I'd love to know the process you used! By adding debug printfs to the grub source code; I used console_putchar(char) calls. And building a custom bootable Solaris x86 CD with the modified boot/grub/stage2_eltorito

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-10 Thread Darren J Moffat
Jürgen Keil wrote: The next try was with more console_putchar calls added to the gateA20() code. This narrowed it down to the loop waiting for an empty keyboard controller input buffer. So how far did you get after that ? -- Darren J Moffat ___

[osol-discuss] Solaris on Intel Macs Petition?

2006-04-10 Thread Bill Rushmore
It seems obvious from a previous thread that the idea of that the idea of running Solaris on the Mac Intel is a popular idea among the community. I suggest we encourage Apple to help us make Solaris a reality on Mac Intel hardware. What we could do is create a petition of names that would not

[osol-discuss] Re: C shells

2006-04-10 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Thanks for all the information to all of you. Does anybody know when Solaris will get the latest tcsh? Current is 6.14.0 and Solaris 10 includes 6.12.0. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/systemtuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-04-10 Thread Eric Lowe
Hi, Roland Mainz wrote: serious cycles on this though we'd like to, and the folks who were in involved in 64K simply don't have any interest in working on this in the open. Why ? What do they fear ? Being swampedoverburned with too many emails or what ? This is a community -- it's up to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-10 Thread Juergen Keil
The next try was with more console_putchar calls added to the gateA20() code. This narrowed it down to the loop waiting for an empty keyboard controller input buffer. So how far did you get after that ? Well, it doesn't hang any more after printing Loading stage2 , after I added

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-10 Thread Darren J Moffat
Juergen Keil wrote: Or I can wait until the grub menu timeout expires. This starts loading the default entry. multiboot and the boot_archive is loaded. Text screen is cleared, , and the system hangs - before printing the SunOS Release 5.xx copyright string. A completely wild guess

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/systemtuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-04-10 Thread Casper . Dik
The filesystems appear to be prepared to handle multiple pages per block but not multiple blocks per page. Hence no 4K blocksize on UltraSPARC. (But even 4K pages with 8K blocks didn't work right on x86, at least) Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/systemtuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-04-10 Thread Dennis Clarke
The filesystems appear to be prepared to handle multiple pages per block but not multiple blocks per page. Hence no 4K blocksize on UltraSPARC. (But even 4K pages with 8K blocks didn't work right on x86, at least) maybe it is time to update the newfs manpage. For Solaris 10 at least. --

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-10 Thread Juergen Keil
Or I can wait until the grub menu timeout expires. This starts loading the default entry. multiboot and the boot_archive is loaded. Text screen is cleared, , and the system hangs - before printing the SunOS Release 5.xx copyright string. A completely wild guess but maybe we

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/systemtuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-04-10 Thread Casper . Dik
The filesystems appear to be prepared to handle multiple pages per block but not multiple blocks per page. Hence no 4K blocksize on UltraSPARC. (But even 4K pages with 8K blocks didn't work right on x86, at least) maybe it is time to update the newfs manpage. For Solaris 10 at least.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/systemtuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-04-10 Thread Dennis Clarke
The filesystems appear to be prepared to handle multiple pages per block but not multiple blocks per page. Hence no 4K blocksize on UltraSPARC. (But even 4K pages with 8K blocks didn't work right on x86, at least) maybe it is time to update the newfs manpage. For Solaris 10 at least. In

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-10 Thread Peter Buckingham
Juergen Keil wrote: Or I can wait until the grub menu timeout expires. This starts loading the default entry. multiboot and the boot_archive is loaded. Text screen is cleared, , and the system hangs - before printing the SunOS Release 5.xx copyright string. A completely wild guess but

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/systemtuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-04-10 Thread Daniel Rock
Dennis Clarke schrieb: In what sense? It already says the sun4u architecture doesn't support the 4K blocksize. It simply seems odd to refer to the 4K page size for the non-sun4u hardware when Solaris 10 does not support sun4m or sun4d etc etc. Simply leave the manpage with an 8K page size

[osol-discuss] technical (kernel?) discussion list progress?

2006-04-10 Thread Peter Buckingham
Hi All, There was some discussion about having a more technical mailing list/community ala freebsd hackers/lkml/... Was there any progress made on that? I'm definitely interested in discoverying/learning more about the internals of Solaris. thanks, peter