Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-20 Thread Duncan Paterson
ok brilliant thanks so much for your help I'll get on it when I get back from uni later on. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] GNOME 2.24.0 unleashed

2008-10-20 Thread Ché Kristo
I have seen MeidaPortal compared to Elisa so I guess you could say that they play in the same space... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] sun qfe card

2008-10-20 Thread James Carlson
Steve Szabo writes: I recently built a new peecee with the intention of running Solaris 10. It seems that Solaris 10 x86 does not include support for the Sun Quad Fast ethernet card. Is this card supported under OpenSolaris or any of the variants? Neither hme nor qfe (same hardware,

[osol-discuss] Image update without a clone of current BE?

2008-10-20 Thread Paweł Tęcza
Hello All, I would like to upgrade OSOL from build 96 to build 99 on my old laptop. Unfortunately I have a small Solaris partition and upgrading process failed because free disk space is not enough. I've read in OSOL docs that `pkg image-update` command creates a clone of current BE by default.

Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-20 Thread Ché Kristo
The docs are all at: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/IPS/ipsdev.html#createipspkg Tim Cramer mentioned during one of the community conference calls that it was a goal to have external contribution mechanisms set up for 2008.11...for the interim period other IPS repositories are blastwave

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Martin Bochnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except that it would be nice if somebody would make the Polaris port functional, before starting a new port. Also, why MIPS, not ARM? Isn't MIPS dead a bit? The general problems in the OpenSolaris project are still not solved. We need a way to allow

Re: [osol-discuss] crontab

2008-10-20 Thread James Carlson
Bill Shannon writes: I'm just asking about monitoring the messages file. I'm researching it by asking here. My budget is $0. I'm hoping there's an obvious solution that's part of OpenSolaris. I found System Log Viewer, although it gives lots of error messages when started up. I guess

Re: [osol-discuss] crontab

2008-10-20 Thread James Carlson
Bill Shannon writes: In the olden days I could start up a console window that would display all the messages logged to the console. Now the messages just go into the log file. You can still do that. I usually crank up something like this to watch for log messages that would have gone to the

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Matt Wilby wrote: Still no sign of it, the latest ISO download is still at b99 for DVD b98 for CD. What's the delay with this release? snv_100 was respun a few days after the normal cycle to produce snv_100a. I would guess that also delayed the release cycle a bit. -- -Alan

Re: [osol-discuss] AMD 3450 no driver

2008-10-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Tal Tamir wrote: I noticed there are built in drivers that just work for most video cards and IGPs, but the driver for the AMD 3450 does not work properly, it has artifacts, shaking, it fails to enable visual effects, and it is limited to a low resolution. Enabling 3-D effects requires a

Re: [osol-discuss] sun qfe card

2008-10-20 Thread Martin Bochnig
Maybe somebody should repeat above tests with Studio, rather than gcc ... ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [powerpc-discuss] [emancipation-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
John Sonnenschein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I think that a MIPS port may have more success than a powerpc port for the simple matter that MIPS is so well understood in academia that a decent emulator that emulates a real system can be found relatively easily, and failing that the

Re: [osol-discuss] [powerpc-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not a bad idea, but challenging due to the max memory sizes on the Qubes. I also wonder how much information and support we will get for those older platforms. I think if there is any chance of running on running on any platform with less than 512MB

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-20 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Wilby wrote: Still no sign of it, the latest ISO download is still at b99 for DVD b98 for CD. What's the delay with this release? snv_100 was respun a few days after the normal cycle to produce snv_100a. I

Re: [osol-discuss] AMD 3450 no driver

2008-10-20 Thread John Brewer
cat you also provide output of: cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] AMD 3450 no driver

2008-10-20 Thread Tal Tamir
it is attached as a file -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ISC DHCPD problem (3.1.1 version).

2008-10-20 Thread Miguel Da Silva - URI
Miguel Da Silva - URI escribió: James Carlson escreveu: Miguel Da Silva - URI writes: svc-cswdhcp: Executing: /opt/csw/sbin/dhcpd -d -cf /opt/csw/etc/dhcpd.conf I'm no ISC DHCP expert (I currently use the Solaris one), but the above looks like a mistake to me. The '-d' option enables

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-20 Thread MC
Wouldn't making this information available on regular basis and in timely fashion provide a a valuable service to all the OpenSolaris developers ? There are opensolaris developers outside of sun?!?! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] rtorrent (and libtorrent) for solaris?

2008-10-20 Thread Erik Tjernlund
I've been looking for a way to run the latest unstable version of rtorrent on my solaris server, but the only pre-compiled version I can find is the packages Stephen Lau made available on whacked.net (thanks Stephen!) The problem is that I need to run the latest version (rtorrent 0.8.3 and

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-20 Thread Shawn Walker
MC wrote: Wouldn't making this information available on regular basis and in timely fashion provide a a valuable service to all the OpenSolaris developers ? There are opensolaris developers outside of sun?!?! Yes, there are. Rich Lowe, Jurgen Keil, Jorg Schilling, and many others... --

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-20 Thread Martin Bochnig
Few, but some (e.g. Roland Mainz and a limited set of others). It depends on the definition. I would suggest, that everybody is one who is working on something that eventually gets upstream into the Nevada gate. In a wider definition this might include everyone who reports a (binary-) bug. Also

Re: [osol-discuss] rtorrent (and libtorrent) for solaris?

2008-10-20 Thread Stephen Lau
On 10/20/08 12:13 PM, Erik Tjernlund wrote: I've been looking for a way to run the latest unstable version of rtorrent on my solaris server, but the only pre-compiled version I can find is the packages Stephen Lau made available on whacked.net (thanks Stephen!) The problem is that I need to

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-20 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: MC wrote: Wouldn't making this information available on regular basis and in timely fashion provide a a valuable service to all the OpenSolaris developers ? There are opensolaris developers outside of sun?!?!

Re: [osol-discuss] AMD 3450 no driver

2008-10-20 Thread Tal Tamir
thank you for the info about the lack of drivers. Recently (with later versions... i think snv98 and up, not sure the exact snv) it started to flicker whenever i move the mouse on the desktop. Any idea why it would do so now and not before? (i am certain snv 96 and earlier did not do so) -- This

[osol-discuss] image-update hung?

2008-10-20 Thread Gary Barker
After issuing the [i]pkg image-update -v [/i] command, the updated packages appear to have been downloaded within 1/2 hour (version 5.11-0.99), but after 3 hours, it still shows [i]Creating Plan[/i]. The hard drive is continually running and 98% of the memory is in use along with 17% of the

Re: [osol-discuss] image-update hung?

2008-10-20 Thread Shawn Walker
Gary Barker wrote: After issuing the [i]pkg image-update -v [/i] command, the updated packages appear to have been downloaded within 1/2 hour (version 5.11-0.99), but after 3 hours, it still shows [i]Creating Plan[/i]. The hard drive is continually running and 98% of the memory is in use

Re: [osol-discuss] rtorrent (and libtorrent) for solaris?

2008-10-20 Thread Erik Tjernlund
Ok, thanks (again) Stephen! I'll give it a try, but coming from a linux background, it's not always that easy to understand how the solaris world works. I've now used goggles to find out what a spec file is and I think I was successful in compiling pkgbuild. If I'm able to update the

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-20 Thread MC
Few, but some Hmm in that case it WOULD make sense for outside developers to know what is going on. Maybe the opensolaris organization inside sun doesn't keep outside developers up to speed because the development information is proprietary or a trade secret. -- This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] sun qfe card

2008-10-20 Thread Ian Collins
Martin Bochnig wrote: Maybe somebody should repeat above tests with Studio, rather than gcc ... Which above tests? There isn't any context. -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] sun qfe card

2008-10-20 Thread Martin Bochnig
Ian, don't you see this message: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2008-October/043954.html ? Or are you seriously calling it lacking context ? - %martin bochnig Natamar project PLATINUM-SPONSOR and co-developer: BRIAN GUPTA

Re: [osol-discuss] sun qfe card

2008-10-20 Thread Ian Collins
Martin Bochnig wrote: Ian, don't you see this message: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2008-October/043954.html ? Nope, I was reading through my web mail and the previous message was downloaded at home. All I could see was Maybe somebody should repeat above

Re: [osol-discuss] sun qfe card

2008-10-20 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Bochnig wrote: Ian, don't you see this message: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2008-October/043954.html ? Nope, I was reading through my web mail and the previous message was

Re: [osol-discuss] Layout and User issues for release 11 08

2008-10-20 Thread Calum Benson
On 17 Oct 2008, at 14:28, Peter Jones wrote: Timing is everything! Please please would you solve some layout issues and problems before 11 08 release they are driving me mad! Is it just me but the open and close icons are missing on most program windows.To compound this annoyance the

Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-20 Thread Calum Benson
On 19 Oct 2008, at 13:11, Duncan Paterson wrote: What are the chances that this will one day rival apt for selection, frequency of updates and speed. It will happen a lot quicker once we have repositories in place to which everyone can contribute packages. I get the feeling that'll be

Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-20 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 Oct 2008, at 13:11, Duncan Paterson wrote: What are the chances that this will one day rival apt for selection, frequency of updates and speed. It will happen a lot quicker once we have repositories in place to

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Cyril Plisko wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Wilby wrote: Still no sign of it, the latest ISO download is still at b99 for DVD b98 for CD. What's the delay with this release? snv_100 was respun a few days after the normal cycle to

[osol-discuss] replacing default java version

2008-10-20 Thread Kevin Duffey
I am having a hard time finding a google link that gives me the info for replacing the jdk that comes with solaris.. to update it to jdk 1.6.10. I have downloaded and ran the installer of jdk.. but like most apps on solaris/linux, they seem to basically unpack and set up some default info..

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-20 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
what about the chinese Loongson processor? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson a notebook running mandriva using that chip seems to be on the way http://www.gdium.com/description and there is some documentation about it in http://www.loongsondeveloper.com On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:35 AM,

Re: [osol-discuss] image-update hung?

2008-10-20 Thread Shawn Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Barker wrote: After issuing the [i]pkg image-update -v [/i] command, the updated packages appear to have been downloaded within 1/2 hour (version 5.11-0.99), but after 3 hours, it still shows [i]Creating Plan[/i]. The hard drive is continually running and 98% of

[osol-discuss] how to display db value of ImageMagick 6.3.4's compare command

2008-10-20 Thread joel tan
when comparing the different images using compare command in the Solaris snv_96, if the size of images are different , the compare does not seem to work in the next step. so i cann't get the the db val of the images , how can i get the db val when the image size differs the other's ?

[osol-discuss] test farm server interface released

2008-10-20 Thread Jim Walker
The OpenSolaris Test Farm build server interface is ready for use by OpenSolaris contributors. This interface allows users to add their own account onto a build server, where they can build OpenSolaris software. Each user account is given it's own zfs file system with a 10 to 15 gigabyte disk