Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project/Community proposal: Shell discussions

2006-05-24 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Roland Mainz wrote: Mike Kupfer wrote: Hey Roland, do you actually want a project or community with web space and a repository? Or are you just proposing a new mailing list? A new mailinglist would be very nice... currently [EMAIL PROTECTED] carries lots of discussions (with (currently

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: where to start?

2006-05-24 Thread UNIX admin
Fill me in, what model, I may be able to help. hp color LaserJet 2500L. Sorry, when I see people able to setup printers using CUPs, with the very odd one not working, it says alot more than the current situation with Solaris. Like I wrote before, you really should at least try to

Re: [osol-discuss] installing grub files

2006-05-24 Thread James C. McPherson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James, (comments inline) Ok, can I assume, since you mention you're running s10 fcs, that you have patch 118844-30 (5.10 x86 kernel patch) installed? I do not believe I have that patch installed. But I see from the README that it has the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Very bad network performance with VMware 5.5.1 build 19175 and Solaris

2006-05-24 Thread Casper . Dik
On Tue, 23 May 2006, Artem Kachitchkine wrote: What ethernet device is being used? I've had similar symptoms until I changed from pcn to e1000g (ethernet0.virtualDev = e1000 in .vmx file, AFAIR) Did you install the vmware utilities? I was informed me a few weeks back that they don't

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Offtopic: Solaris C API to clear a terminalscreen...

2006-05-24 Thread Michael Hunter
On Wed, 24 May 2006 02:25:40 +0200 Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] so to clear the screen, print the same escape sequence. for example, this program clears the screen: [...] Which doesn't work except for the exact same terminal. Yes, but in the

[osol-discuss] Unable to open webbrowser window in solaris 10?

2006-05-24 Thread Rama Krishna
Hi, we installed solaris 10 on our system but we are unable launch the webbrowser window , when we click on the webbrowser it does some [b]processing but unable to launch webbrowser window[/b]. Some executable files like [b]gedit[/b] editor window are also not openning when we double

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to open webbrowser window in solaris 10?

2006-05-24 Thread Janardhan Molumuri
try out /usr/sfw/bin/mozilla -JNR. On 5/24/06, Rama Krishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, we installed solaris 10 on our system but we are unable launch the webbrowser window , when we click on the webbrowser it does some [b]processing but unable to launch webbrowser window[/b]. Some

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: where to start?

2006-05-24 Thread Calum Benson
On 23 May 2006, at 16:44, David Clack wrote: In the future Rthymbox + Sound Juiccer should be able to do the same thing. Yup, a patched rhythmbox that allows iPod syncing has gone into Ubuntu Dapper this week IIRC, so assuming that stabilises and gets back upstream, it may well appear in

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: where to start?

2006-05-24 Thread Calum Benson
On 23 May 2006, at 06:24, Matthew Gardiner wrote: I've got better things to do with my time that pointing out the bloody obvious to a company who is unwilling to listen. When in a company of 30,000 there isn't a single person trying to grab Solaris by the balls and dragging it kicking and

Re: [osol-discuss] Making project bits available through OpenSolaris

2006-05-24 Thread Bonnie Corwin
Start with the instructions on the projects page. There is information there about proposing a new project (which would presumably be needed) and a pointer to information about what and how to post binaries and/or source. http://opensolaris.org/os/projects Thanks. Bonnie Darren Reed wrote On

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: where to start?

2006-05-24 Thread John Martinez
On May 23, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Matthew Gardiner wrote: ... Turn the facility into something where by the whole system can be configured and maintained from that one central location - Apple has it right, more or less, with their System Preferences. Apple even has the reverse problem. They

Re: [osol-discuss] Making project bits available through OpenSolaris

2006-05-24 Thread Darren Reed
Yup, thanks, the pointer to posting binaries/source is what I was looking for. This item should appear in places other than just the single line on the top page - like on the page for project leaders: http://opensolaris.org/os/communities/lead_reference/ To my way of thinking, it belongs there

Re: [osol-discuss] Making project bits available through OpenSolaris

2006-05-24 Thread Bonnie Corwin
Darren Reed wrote On 05/24/06 07:56,: Yup, thanks, the pointer to posting binaries/source is what I was looking for. This item should appear in places other than just the single line on the top page - like on the page for project leaders: http://opensolaris.org/os/communities/lead_reference/

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Having /usr/ports on OpenSolaris

2006-05-24 Thread Hugh McIntyre
Matthew Gardiner wrote: That set the benchmark, and in that time, Solaris has moved no where - where are the ATI/Matrox/Nvidia drivers for consumer AND professional cards? I'm typing this on a white box [*] with a recent Nvidia consumer card, supported out of the box with Solaris 10 update 1.

[osol-discuss] Re: Unable to open webbrowser window in solaris 10?

2006-05-24 Thread Stephen Harpster
Are you able to open an xterm window? If so, try to run the browser or gedit from the command line to see what errors occur. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Making project bits available through OpenSolaris

2006-05-24 Thread Stephen Harpster
Your choice. OpenGrok uses tarballs; Chime uses packages. Personally, I'd use packages since they are easier to remove when you're done playing or if things fall completely apart. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Making project bits available through OpenSolaris

2006-05-24 Thread Chandan
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 09:27 -0700, Stephen Harpster wrote: Your choice. OpenGrok uses tarballs; It comes in a package too. Community developers who contributed code, preferred it from a CVS or SVN server, rather than a tarball. -Chandan ___

[osol-discuss] grabbing DV data from av1394

2006-05-24 Thread William Wanders
Is by any change anyone working on getting applications like dvgrab and kino working on Solaris? I've been trying to read DV data from a av1394 device on Sparc (blade 100) and x86/amd64 (Acer f4k) with limited succes. William. ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: where to start?

2006-05-24 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:38:05PM +1200, Matthew Gardiner wrote: On Tuesday 23 May 2006 18:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Within Sun's software developement, we use something called binding determined by our architectural review committees to help determine the appropriate releases such a

Re: [osol-discuss] grabbing DV data from av1394

2006-05-24 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
William Wanders wrote: Is by any change anyone working on getting applications like dvgrab and kino working on Solaris? I've been trying to read DV data from a av1394 device on Sparc (blade 100) and x86/amd64 (Acer f4k) with limited succes. av1394 is very broken on x86, the bugs are being

Re: [osol-discuss] grabbing DV data from av1394

2006-05-24 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 10:00 am, William Wanders wrote: Is by any change anyone working on getting applications like dvgrab and kino working on Solaris? I've been trying to read DV data from a av1394 device on Sparc (blade 100) and x86/amd64 (Acer f4k) with limited succes. Yes, I am. I have

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project/Community proposal: Shell discussions

2006-05-24 Thread April Chin
I'd prefer to keep a separate shells mailing list. I wouldn't consider it a project, more of a discussion group, so I don't think any source code repository would be needed. Actual changes to the shells that result from the discussions could get in via the request-sponsor alias. April

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project/Community proposal: Shell discussions

2006-05-24 Thread April Chin
Also, belatedly, I'd also like to add a +1 for creating the shell-discuss mailing list. Just to clarify, the shells my group works on are ksh, csh, and sh (bourne shell), but we can include other shells (bash, zsh) in the discussion. April Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 11:30:47 -0700

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project/Community proposal: Shell discussions

2006-05-24 Thread Stephen Hahn
* April Chin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-24 12:10]: Also, belatedly, I'd also like to add a +1 for creating the shell-discuss mailing list. Just to clarify, the shells my group works on are ksh, csh, and sh (bourne shell), but we can include other shells (bash, zsh) in the discussion.

[osol-discuss] Site refresh @ 2pm

2006-05-24 Thread Derek Cicero
There should not be any downtime. I will send a note when it is complete. Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Project/Community proposal: Shell discussions

2006-05-24 Thread Stephen Potter
I'd prefer to keep a separate shells mailing list. I wouldn't consider it a project, more of a discussion group, so I don't think any source code repository would be needed. Actual changes to the shells that result from the discussions could get in via the request-sponsor alias. This feels

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: where to start?

2006-05-24 Thread Valerie Anne Bubb
On Tue, 23 May 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Within Sun's software developement, we use something called binding determined by our architectural review committees to help determine the appropriate releases such a change can target. Nevada (OpenSolaris/S11) is micro binding right now - so

[osol-discuss] Sitre refresh compelete

2006-05-24 Thread Derek Cicero
The site has been updated. Please report any issues or problems to website-discuss. List of changes: * Page names are not required to be unique within their space. * Objects can have mixed-case names. * Search results will include a list of categories of results. * Multiple search

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project/Community proposal: Shell discussions

2006-05-24 Thread April Chin
Okay, then I think what we want is a shell community, then. April Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:50:41 -0700 From: Stephen Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: April Chin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Re:

[osol-discuss] Solaris updates?

2006-05-24 Thread Tim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I have recently installed 'Solaris Nevada snv_35 X86' BrandZ DVD. All is working well... I would like to use smpatch analyze and update. I have not purchased any Service Contracts with Sun nor do I plan too, as this strictly for personal

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris updates?

2006-05-24 Thread Valerie Anne Bubb
On Wed, 24 May 2006, Tim wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I have recently installed 'Solaris Nevada snv_35 X86' BrandZ DVD. All is working well... I would like to use smpatch analyze and update. I have not purchased any Service Contracts with Sun nor do I plan

[osol-discuss] curious about solaris + software stack + patching/software management in future

2006-05-24 Thread David J. Orman
Hi, I'm a bit curious about the direction Sun is going with Solaris/their software stack (JES) and patching/software management. I've been evaluating Solaris for quite some time, and been (generally) impressed with it. The main issues revolve around the above mentioned curiosities. #1 -

[osol-discuss] [Fwd: [CentOS] EOL notice for CentOS-4/sparc beta release]

2006-05-24 Thread Bruno Delbono
Hi, Any aficionados among this group (within or outside Sun) who want to see a truly good OS run on a truly good platform? If so, please speak or volunteer now. Warm Regards, -- Bruno Delbono Open-Systems Group http://www.open-systems.org/users/bruno/ ---BeginMessage--- Hi, I cannot take

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project/Community proposal: Shell discussions

2006-05-24 Thread John Beck
April ... +1 for creating the shell-discuss mailing list. Stephen Propose a shells project, please. Unassociated mailing lists Stephen are not being offered as a general option at this time. April Okay, then I think what we want is a shell community, then.