Re: [osol-discuss] Should OS2010.03 stick to the 2010.03 release date?

2010-01-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
d=7767 If that's not correct, you'll need to update the bug or take the discussion up on desktop-discuss with the people who work on pidgin. We are well past feature freeze now for 2010.03 - adding more features would work against the goal of stabilizing the release a

Re: [osol-discuss] installing osol 131 from osol-dev-131-x86.iso. Password required

2010-01-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
release notes that were posted to opensolaris-announce: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=122290&tstart=0 Look for the bit about "LiveCD changes required for new GDM" - though you'll also want to read the other notes for other issues you'll hit. --

Re: [osol-discuss] zones in b131 and bug 6912829

2010-01-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
bout how the different modules of the kernel network stack interact and what the side effects may be of replacing one but not the others. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Win

Re: [osol-discuss] zones in b131 and bug 6912829

2010-01-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Bruno Damour wrote: > The bug is still unavailable ? It's flagged as a security-sensitive bug so will not be published outside Sun. > I would have contributed the workaround, but... ...you can't edit bugs from outside Sun anyway, even if you can see them. -- -

Re: [osol-discuss] When will osol-131 be published ?

2010-01-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
es in the /dev repo update - pkgfactory packages go into the /contrib repo, not /dev, so that's unrelated. (And since 130 was the last build for big new projects to deliver for the 2010.03 release, you should expect to see fewer new packages in /dev updates between now and 2010.03.)

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
seriously now. http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=13946 but that's really a request for a project, not a bug that can be simply fixed, so it probably will go nowhere (especially since it's filed in the bug database that the kernel team doesn't pay attention to). -- -Alan C

[osol-discuss] Nevada: What's going, what's staying, what's changing, what's not

2010-01-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
- if not, try asking your questions on the appropriate OpenSolaris.Org mailing list or web forum. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris SXCE compile IPS for osol and problems with pkg command

2010-01-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
), and is being ended this month, so for new installs you really want OpenSolaris now. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list op

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-help] 128a was the latest fairly stable

2010-01-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
enSolaris isn't yet a fully-featured replacement for Solaris 10, but it's closer to the next enterprise release of Solaris than SXCE is - it at least uses the same packaging system and installer that the next release of Solaris will use, and no longer includes many of the EOL components that Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-help] 128a was the latest fairly stable

2010-01-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ther of those purposes, it's no longer needed. That other people used it for other reasons is unfortunate, but has never been part of the SXCE goals. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. -

Re: [osol-discuss] Bug 6695198 regarding the Intel SS4200

2010-01-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ask this, but I can provide a remote serial > connection to an Intel SS4200 if this might help fix this bug... I've cc'ed the engineer who added that comment to the bug so that he can connect with you to debug further. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@s

Re: [osol-discuss] Change Logs (or something similar) for dev releases?

2010-01-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
.opensolaris.org/source/xref/jds/spec-files-other/branches/gnome-2-28/ChangeLog Of course, internally you can see the RTC's filed for each build, which lists all the bugster bug ids for the consolidations that use it, but that's only helpful for people with access behind the Sun firewalls.

Re: [osol-discuss] X problem fixed in build 131? (bug 13598)

2010-01-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
build 131 closed last night and is being built and tested now, not really, unless someone else reported it and it was already fixed. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering __

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
emoved Xsun on x86 in snv_118. Xnest hasn't really been maintained in years, and is missing support for many of the newer extensions required by modern desktops, which is why we choose to EOL it in favor of the newer and more capable Xephyr, built from the current Xorg sources. --

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
uild IPS packages instead of SVR4, it won't be possible to build SXCE anymore, since they're not planning on maintaining two sets of packaging metadata in the ON gate. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun M

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
bleeding edge Indiana version was. If they skipped snv_130 it might save you the wasted time and effort of using live upgrade to upgrade in to a buggy system. Skipping 130 won't give you SXCE 131, it would just end the SXCE line at 129 instead. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coo

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
inter holiday break from Dec. 25 - Jan. 1, so all this week.) 130 is the final SXCE release planned though, as previously announced. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engine

Re: [osol-discuss] build 130 nonsense

2009-12-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ent Nevada builds, which is why SXCE has been DVD only for a while). As Shawn already explained, that's not the way the OpenSolaris LiveCD works. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _

Re: [osol-discuss] build 130 nonsense

2009-12-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
; since there is obviously no way to get them put back in. install-discuss and/or indiana-discuss would be the place to ask about what's on or off the LiveCD. The list is changing build to build as work is done, so that would be where discussions about adding things back may be most prod

Re: [osol-discuss] X hangs on snv130

2009-12-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
one in the opensolaris-discuss thread with more information: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=120664&tstart=0 -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Daniel Rock wrote: > Hello, >

Re: [osol-discuss] X hangs on snv130

2009-12-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
previous examples to rely on. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Trouble with svc:/system/intrd:default on b 129

2009-12-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
7454 and still > shows no results... not sure why. 7 digit bug numbers are in the bug database found at bugs.opensolaris.org. The separate bug database at defect.opensolaris.org is only up to 5 digit bug ids so far. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6907454 --

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris update policy

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to buy support myself, so I don't know how the web form works. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris update policy

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ct you can request to escalate the fix into an SRU - they usually include all security fixes by default, and then any other fixes that customers have escalated or support deems critical to include. You can see the current lists of available updates at: http://sunsolve.sun.com/show.do?t

Re: [osol-discuss] "Invisible" Gnome-Terminal Problem

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
s. The bug is in the pkg command handling of upgrades, so once you've upgraded to 129 and it's fixed version of the pkg command, further upgrades should not lose the entry from minor_perm, but if it was lost before you got there, you may still have it. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
OpenSolaris Town Hall calls held with the community last year. Unfortunately, between the genunix wiki being down and the reorg of the OpenSolaris web site, I can't find any pointers to them right now. As for a timeline - when you find out what that is, let us know, we'

Re: [osol-discuss] star [was: Some Why?-Questions]

2009-12-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >>> The question would be how to call a just compiled "smake" later in the >>> autmated build process from another package. >> If your spec file for smake installs it as /usr/bin/smake, then the spec >

Re: [osol-discuss] OS 2009.06 -> b129 update: broken gnome terminal and xterm

2009-12-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
down to the description for: 12380 image-update loses /dev/ptmx from /etc/minor_perm for more information and instructions to fix. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
fore my time - I suspect it's just part of the cost of providing compatibility.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] http://wiki.genunix.org down?

2009-12-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Halton Huo wrote: > I can not access http://wiki.genunix.org for several days, anybody know > what happens? See the notice in the first news item on http://www.genunix.org/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
barrier. That's why pkgadd & company are still provided for installing existing SVR4 packages. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-disc

Re: [osol-discuss] star [was: Some Why?-Questions]

2009-12-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ocess from another package. If your spec file for smake installs it as /usr/bin/smake, then the spec file for star just calls "/usr/bin/smake", provided you listed it in BuildRequires. If you install in another path, adjust appropriately. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg scripts are evil :-) (was Some Why?-Questions)

2009-12-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
actions, like the one to install a device driver. So the biggest gap in IPS is the long acknowledged lack of documentation & examples. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e not welcome here. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
quot; seems hardly worthwhile, and only likely to delay adding actually needed features. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list o

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
UNIX admin wrote: > No we won't, because this is costing money. Where can I send the bill, > please? To the customers who are paying you for new versions. Isn't that where you'd send the bill for adding support for other new features in new OS releases? --

Re: [osol-discuss] star [was: Some Why?-Questions]

2009-12-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
h of the work to satisfy this "need" - I'm sure Joerg will appreciate your help on the work required for the integration. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] star [was: Some Why?-Questions]

2009-12-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> BTW: RFE 5007466 was closed, does this mean that star is now included in >>> Solaris? >> No, according to the bug database, it was closed due to lack of interest, >> since no

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
a way forward. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OSOL SNV_130: You've come a long way, baby...

2009-12-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ow for 2010.03, so there's room for RFE's and smaller things, but no more major upgrades or projects until after 2010.03 for most of the OS. (Things like IPS outside the main consolidations operate on different schedules, and have a later freeze.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Volker A. Brandt wrote: > Alan Coopersmith writes: >> Volker A. Brandt wrote: >>> However, there is also the fact that Sun had already committed to >>> a scripting language, Perl. There was a statement that Perl was a core >>> part of Solaris and would alwa

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
about their investigations of the options and the requirements they gathered from the various major enterprise customers they talked to hasn't convinced you, my third-hand repeating of what they said isn't going to help. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
aster here.) And there can be only one? Doesn't that mean perl was also a mistake since Sun had already committed to sh as a scripting language available on the miniroot? (Just taking your argument to its logical conclusion - I'm a heavy perl user myself, so think both perl & python

Re: [osol-discuss] When will AMD PowerNow be supported on processors families 15hex and below?

2009-12-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Jensen Lee wrote: > Is anyone taking any interest in OpenSolaris' power management and carbon > emissions? The engineers working on the Power Management project are, but they're off in pm-discuss, away from all the noxious emissions of this mailing list. -- -

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Solaris 11. It's closer to that future than SX:CE is, and ending SX:CE simply stops you from wasting your time on dealing with the things that are known not to be part of the next Solaris enterprise release. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
any. If you want an official Sun statement, contact the press office for a finely tuned press release in which all the content is scrutinized and sanitized.] -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering __

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
QL*Plus? The same thing as on SXCE, since it's the same pkgadd command being used to install the System V packages. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > UNIX admin wrote: >> I dislike the fact that root's shell is /bin/bash. > > Then don't change it to bash - OpenSolaris doesn't ship that way. Sorry - just realized my mistake in replying to this mail too soon after having a different discus

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, since compatibility was kept with the System V packaging system. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Expecting NVDAgraphics v190.42 soon??

2009-12-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
o - only John or Nvidia can. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] BFU to b128a

2009-12-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
tabase once a day, so it may take up to 24 hours for your bug to become visible on the web site. When it is, it should appear at: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6908102 Sun employees can view it right away in the internal database though. --

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
g 'svcadm disable -t gdm' - restart them with 'svcadm enable gdm'. If you upgrade to a development build, then you'll be able to enable virtual console switching between X & text consoles. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Expecting NVDAgraphics v190.42 soon??

2009-12-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
t right before the Xmas holiday. 129 should be a bit before that. > The Xorg 7.5/Xserver 1.7.3 update will come after that AFAIK. It integrated to 130. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] when NEW OpenSolaris 2009.12 will get out and also when free CD available ?

2009-12-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Yes, the schedule was changed a couple months ago. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Che Kristo wrote: > Aha...I see we have shifted it back > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:02, Alan Co

Re: [osol-discuss] when NEW OpenSolaris 2009.12 will get out and also when free CD available ?

2009-12-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Che Kristo wrote: > The next release is 2010.02 which you can expect towards the end of > February if all goes to plan. That should say 2010.03 in March. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engin

Re: [osol-discuss] crontab

2009-12-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Apollo Domain/OS is the one I'm remembering, but I could be remembering poorly.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] crontab

2009-12-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ommand - is there something more you need to know? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SVN_128 & Inline Data De-duplication

2009-12-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
opensolaris-announce as the reason SXCE was being skipped (since it wasn't respun), and the respins pushing the work into the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in the US. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window S

Re: [osol-discuss] how to use SUNWnetcat to capture network traffic?

2009-12-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
es that's a lot to do, and it's not top on the priority list. al...@also:/export/alanc/hg/7.5-merge [7:49am - 276] pkg search nc.1 INDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGE basename file usr/share/man/man1/nc.1 pkg:/sunw...@0.5.11-0.123 [] -- -Alan Coop

Re: [osol-discuss] any work on bug ID 6807184

2009-12-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
gate being outside the Sun firewall, as it is for the Desktop consolidation and several projects (like IPS) - not on the status of the contributor. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window Sy

Re: [osol-discuss] Bootable Sparc DVD?

2009-11-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ken Mandelberg wrote: > Haven't heard any more. Can anyone confirm that OpenSolaris does not now (or > will not in a future release) support the XVR100 on a Sparc SunBlade 1500? OpenSolaris 2009.06 and /dev include XVR-100 support. -- -Alan Coopersmith- al

Re: [osol-discuss] What version of a program in IPS?

2009-11-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ake sure they stay up to date. This should improve as the consolidations start being converted to generate the IPS packages directly, and they can then set the versions themselves when creating the packages. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems,

Re: [osol-discuss] What version of a program in IPS?

2009-11-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
1 default. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Legacy GRUB v GRUB2

2009-11-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
onal review when shipping in a Sun project to make sure we don't have any conflicts with existing patent licenses, since Sun has so many existing patent licenses/cross-licenses with other companies.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, I

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix for Dummies

2009-11-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
quot;printf(3c)" and when you need to force a particular section (because there's multiple choices), you run "man -s 3c printf" - see "man man" and "man intro" for more info. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsyst

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/netbeans/bin/netbeans /bin/bash: : No such file or directory

2009-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to? From the extra " : ", I'll bet that's bash trying to report that the script you're passing as the first argument is coming through as "", which is not found. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, leg

2009-11-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
nity shows enough commitment to have set up the project. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, leg

2009-11-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
M64) > •Sun XVR-200 Graphics Accelerator (mko) XVR-200 is not an ATI card. It uses a Matrox G550 chipset. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
blows away my Sun Blade 2500. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris SXCE 126 in VirtualBox

2009-11-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, but only booted into text mode. >>> Those problems were observed with previous versions >> of VBox. >>> Any suggestions that I may try? Thanks. >> Did you reinstall the guest additions from the 3.0.10 >> Virtual Box guest >> additions iso? Changes

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris SXCE 126 in VirtualBox

2009-11-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
versions of VBox. > > Any suggestions that I may try? Thanks. Did you reinstall the guest additions from the 3.0.10 Virtual Box guest additions iso? Changes in both the OS & VirtualBox require the guest additions to be updated from previous versions. -- -Alan Cooper

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris SXCE 126 on X61 unusable

2009-11-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
is kernel VM systems). As has been noted elsewhere, the GEM transition caused a lot of issues with Intel graphics support on Linux when it happened, so they're trying to be careful here. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coope

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris SXCE 126 on X61 unusable

2009-11-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> I have the impression that since about a year, when the transition >>> to the new X server happened, many bugs have been introduced but never >>> fixed. >> I&#x

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris SXCE 126 on X61 unusable

2009-11-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
off bug reports submitted through bugs.opensolaris.org with enough detail to reproduce, not e-mails to opensolaris-discuss. (For instance, "X61" is a bit unclear - are you referring to a Thinkpad laptop model or some other device?) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com

Re: [osol-discuss] question about ignoreeof

2009-11-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
olaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6894600 -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [xwin-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Martin Bochnig wrote: > The name FullyOpenX was once invented by Alan Coopersmith. I am admittedly guilty of chosing names based on being able to reduce them to abbreviations or acronyms that amuse me ("FOX" and "X-cons"), but that's not a requirement for anyone else t

Re: [osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
pect the list of contributors to change before the final proposal is submitted. For instance, while I've volunteered to work on the code release, once that's done, I won't be leading this project or probably doing much more than answering questions and giving advice. --

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
if you can run Xsun from a Solaris 10 branded zone, if you exported the fb devices to it, once there's a build out there with that feature in. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
inding other loopholes such as shutting down all their European offices, and only selling via third party importers, so they wouldn't be subject to such laws. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineeri

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic card

2009-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
g into the Xorg server sources either at X.Org upstream or OpenSolaris. I don't know how many of those are still relevant in the current Xorg server. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering __

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
sers to run on OpenSolaris other > commercial close source applications? > I am afraid this does not make sense. Of course not, that makes no sense, and I never said anything of the sort. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ber of SPARC > workstations being sold every week! And why? Because businesses and > professionals need a SPARC workstation. But every workstation offered for sale on Ebay is a sign that someone else no longer needs one. -- -Alan Coopersmith- a

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
2) include a binary package of both drivers (already available I believe) and > Xsun, installable on OpenSolaris Sparc. The binary package of the drivers is available on opensolaris.org. As already noted, we cannot make the current Xsun available for separate download due to ot

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the compiler du jour for nightly ? or compiler du nuit ?

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
hat's up to the ON gatekeepers to fix, so lets see what happens if we cc on-discuss so they actually see the message. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ open

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
sed by consolidations such as ON, SFW, & X still require bugster bug reports, there's been little incentive to fix those issues. The few groups using bugster don't use tools like WebRTI and have set up more fine grained subcategories to allow efficiently getting notice to the en

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
de Sun are: 1) bugs.opensolaris.org 2) going via Sun Service, if you have a service contract 3) find a friendly Sun engineer and ask nicely, beg, plead or offer to trade frosty beverages in exchange for filing them on your behalf -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@s

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the compiler du jour for nightly ? or compiler du nuit ?

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ew/Community+Group+tools/sun_studio_tools -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Skype is being open sourced! OpenSolaris?

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ping on OpenSolaris - it will depend much more on if they depend on any binary only modules or Linux-specific interfaces, and until they release the source or much more detail than that simple post, it's hard to guess if it will be possible to port or not. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
er than most of their contemporary video cards, and even a lot longer than some of Sun's older graphics drivers. I doubt you'll find any vendor who'll promise the video card you buy today will be supported in new OS versions coming out ten years from now. -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
org, Xvnc, Xvfb), but Xsun will probably disappear from the list in the Xserver script at some point. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ATI Radeon HD 5870/5850/5770/5750 support

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
rg RadeonHD team. If it's not implemented yet, the odds of it being written, debugged, and released in a stable release upstream before our build 129 code freeze in three weeks are basically 0. We are planning to upgrade to the stable xf86-video-radeonhd 1.3 release around that

Re: [osol-discuss] Need a How-to on installing a VM on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i38

2009-10-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
albox.org). > > Mr Martin, can you tell if my Ultra 27 is running openSolaris? Since it says "SunOS 5.10", you are running Solaris 10, a previous generation of the operating system. (OpenSolaris would report "SunOS 5.11".) --

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris support for Sparc

2009-10-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
up to date > without need to re-install or luupgrade every few weeks (as I had to do so > far with SXCE) For a machine with Expert3D graphics? Sun has no plans to ever produce an OpenSolaris version in which it supports that hardware - support for that may be provided by other distros

Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - new feature request

2009-10-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
I, with good enough information,options and > prudent requests from user.). http://docs.sun.com/source/820-7679/ (reached by going to http://docs.sun.com/ choosing "Operating Systems", then "OpenSolaris") -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com

Re: [osol-discuss] How might I install perl 5.10.1 using pkg

2009-10-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
#x27;s 5.10.0, not 5.10.1: http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/en/search.shtml?token=*perl510*&action=Search -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-disc

Re: [osol-discuss] bug submission - appropriate placement

2009-10-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
the X/GNOME/Mozilla desktop stack. For other packages, it's not so easy. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list ope

Re: [osol-discuss] bug submission - appropriate placement

2009-10-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ource/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/squid/METADATA says the right bug category is solaris/utility/squid - which would be via bugs.opensolaris.org, not defect. (You could file it in defect, but it wouldn't get fixed until copied to the internal bug database anyway.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Solaris 10 Zones - specification available?

2009-10-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
rc.opensolaris.org/caselog/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Has something changed with root logins [b 124]

2009-10-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ng the link there to the Forum should let you find them in the last few weeks worth of postings if the specific build isn't linked from the front page. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] bizarre X windows behavior on snv_124

2009-10-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
X gate for build 126 that disables use of the SIGIO signal handlers altogether until the kernel guys can fix the underlying register bug. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering __

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