Re: [osol-discuss] GPL drivers

2007-09-20 Thread Darren J Moffat
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 16:48 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: Right, and one would think that a kernel and its components are usually part of the OS :) Solaris provides a documented and generally stable in-kernel ABI, the DDI, to permit 3rd party device drivers not part of

Re: [osol-discuss] Need Realtek High Definition audio Driver

2007-09-20 Thread Mike DeMarco
On 19/09/2007, Mike DeMarco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I have installed build 72 and the audio driver still won't make any noise. Have you tried the driver at www.opensound.com? Yep.. hdaudio: [ID 486316 kern.notice] NOTICE: Unknown HDA codec 0x11c13026 I have tried twice to put in

Re: [osol-discuss] Need Realtek High Definition audio Driver

2007-09-20 Thread Shawn Walker
On 20/09/2007, Mike DeMarco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/09/2007, Mike DeMarco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I have installed build 72 and the audio driver still won't make any noise. Have you tried the driver at www.opensound.com? Yep.. hdaudio: [ID 486316 kern.notice]

[osol-discuss] Sun + Microsoft cooperation = codecs for Siolaris, finally?

2007-09-20 Thread UNIX admin
Now that Sun has, for the second time, (re)anonounced with all the big noise and confetti how they are to interoperate with Microsoft, is there any chance that we will finally see Windows Media Player / Microsoft (or whatever they are called, I don't care) codecs in Solaris? As far as I

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun + Microsoft cooperation = codecs for Siolaris, finally?

2007-09-20 Thread S h i v
On 9/20/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that Sun has, for the second time, (re)anonounced with all the big noise and confetti how they are to interoperate with Microsoft, is there any chance that we will finally see Windows Media Player / Microsoft (or whatever they are called,

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun + Microsoft cooperation = codecs for Siolaris, finally?

2007-09-20 Thread Doug Scott
As far as I remember, Microsoft and Sun concluded an agreement whereby both companies were entitled to freely use the technologies and patents of another. Was the words free ever used? I always thought that money would transfer between the companies for the use of each others technology.

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun + Microsoft cooperation = codecs for Siolaris, finally?

2007-09-20 Thread UNIX admin
Was the words free ever used? I always thought that money would transfer between the companies for the use of each others technology. It did: 1+ billion United States dollars were paid to Sun Microsystems by the Microsoft corporation. In return, both parties signed a cross-licensing

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun + Microsoft cooperation = codecs for Siolaris, finally?

2007-09-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
UNIX admin wrote: In fact, Sun, under this agreement has access to all and any Microsoft technology, and is free to implement that technology in Solaris in any way Sun pleases! I've never seen the agreement, and I'm sure anyone who has will not be commenting on it here, but for the one

[osol-discuss] printing issue - blank page with header?

2007-09-20 Thread Anne
HI All Whenever I used the command line print, such as: 'lp filename' it only prints the banner and the name of the file (in this case filename). But it does not print the contents of the file(s) themselves. Any idea on how to fix this? Thank you! Anne

Re: [osol-discuss] From Ubuntu to Solaris

2007-09-20 Thread Orvar Korvar
That is one of the reasons I dont like Linux, the distros are different. If you know SuSE then you dont necessarily know Ubuntu. There is no reference Linux. With Solaris, it is different. If you know Solaris, then you dont have to relearn in the same vein. This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] From Ubuntu to Solaris

2007-09-20 Thread MC
Others have answered your other questions, but I'd ask you... is Ubuntu NOT doing anything you need done? Changing to another OS, even to another form of Linux, is going to involve relearning a bunch of stuff, and if you're nervous about it or short of time, you'd probably going to start off with

Re: [osol-discuss] From Ubuntu to Solaris

2007-09-20 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* MC ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Others have answered your other questions, but I'd ask you... is Ubuntu NOT doing anything you need done? Changing to another OS, even to another form of Linux, is going to involve relearning a bunch of stuff, and if you're nervous about it or short of time,

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun + Microsoft cooperation = codecs for Siolaris, finally?

2007-09-20 Thread Brian Cameron
In terms of media codecs, note that Windows Media player supports many formats where Microsoft doesn't own the IP, such as MPEG2, MPEG4, mp3, etc. I don't think Sun's arrangements with Microsoft allows any other companies to make use of their licenses to distribute plugins to support these

Re: [osol-discuss] Where are my bug reports (season 6, episode 66) ?

2007-09-20 Thread Roland Mainz
Roland Mainz wrote: Does anyone know whether bugs.opensolaris.org is sick again ? I'm missing two bug reports: 1. DTrace causes system hang and 2. DTrace ksh scripts Can anyone please check what happened to these bugs ? Erm... did anyone see these bug reports somewhere or should I

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun + Microsoft cooperation = codecs forSiolaris, finally?

2007-09-20 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Coopersmith wrote: UNIX admin wrote: In fact, Sun, under this agreement has access to all and any Microsoft technology, and is free to implement that technology in Solaris in any way Sun pleases! I've never seen the agreement, and I'm sure anyone who has will not be commenting on