Re: [osol-discuss] [kde-discuss] Display Managers

2007-11-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> Brian Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>>> So, why use GDM instead of KDM then? Other than "because it's there"

Re: [osol-discuss] [kde-discuss] Display Managers

2007-11-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e to require a closed-source, yet free, compiler to compile open source binaries (or if that's even allowed by GPL), is something that could be suggested as a reason to change it, but for now, those are the rules. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsyste

Re: [osol-discuss] 'more' broken in b77 miniroot?

2007-11-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
g nv_70/70a/70b builds for the last SXDE release, when trying to diagnose hardware on which Xorg was failing to start, but I couldn't run "more /var/log/Xorg.0.log" in the shell the installer dumped me into after X failed.(I think I finally got /usr/bin/pg to work, s

Re: [osol-discuss] Middle management at Sun destroys OpenDS is OpenSolaris next?

2007-11-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
rking from Sun - which should be additional incentive for Sun not to screw up. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] "Indiana" review

2007-12-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
the other incompatibilities you note (and you missed a few known incompatibilities, like libX11 & libXext in the Preview breaking binary compatibility with Solaris X apps), isn't it a good thing that uname warns you this isn't SunOS, so you know it's not compatible and your scripts do

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is my Intel GMA 950 graphics not beingreconisded (driver exists)

2007-12-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
osed source binary drivers will have full performance and functionality. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] frequency scalling in opensolaris

2007-12-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
people who are participating via e-mail. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [website-discuss] [webstack-discuss] Open Solaris bug web UI unusable (was) Re: mysql user

2007-12-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
n of replacing bugs.opensolaris.org is underway - currently, the choices have been narrowed down to bugzilla, which is being tested/evaluated at http://defect.opensolaris.org/ , using Project Indiana and a few other projects as guinea pigs. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] [webstack-discuss] Open Solaris bug web UI unusable (was) Re: mysql user

2007-12-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
org sucks so badly in large part because it's unresourced and no one has the responsibility to improve it, hence the goal to replace it with an open bug db. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window Syst

Re: [osol-discuss] [webstack-discuss] Open Solaris bug web UI unusable (was) Re: mysql user

2007-12-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
bugs - those go to http://defect.opensolaris.org, where Indiana is being used as a test subject to help evaluate bugzilla 3.0 to become the new bug db for OpenSolaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X W

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris vs. Solaris10 application compatibility

2007-12-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
sidered bugs or limitations of the current preview, and not an intended end-state. I know I'm expected to fix the X library issues that keep current Solaris binaries like StarOffice from being able to run on Indiana. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: [osol-discuss] SunPC & SunPCI Device Registers/Programming Info

2007-12-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
http://wikis.sun.com/display/FOSSdocs/Home -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] How do I update my bugreport?

2007-12-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
he appropriate community group, or a generic list like opensolaris-bugs, and ask for your bug report to be updated by a Sun employee. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE based on b77?

2007-12-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
er bits not in the SXDE 9/07 release (which was build 70b). -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Mark Drummond wrote: > I just downloaded the DVD for SXCR build 77. It appears to include SXDE > as well. Is this SX

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
other program named "compare" has been, so I see no conflict. Neither the OGB nor the ARC can be expected to regulate the namespace of every program someone has written in the world, only those that have asked to be part of OpenSolaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMA

Re: [osol-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to get changes integrated. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
t tried contributing to OpenSolaris, and are still stuck in the pre-OpenSolaris mode of trying to get code into Solaris, which is near impossible for an outsider. Fortunately, OpenSolaris is here now - try the new process. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-12-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
le name conflict with every program written by someone in the world and used by a handful of people, and the reality is, ImageMagick is far more widely used than your compare program.There is no world-wide registry of open source command names we can force projects to check against to be sure they

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
hanges - there's over 30,000 people here, and we all do different things and disagree on many of them, and if you don't deal with the individuals, nothing can ever happen. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] Any info on what holds b78 and b79 ?

2007-12-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Robert wrote: > ...and why is is not announced when there is an holdup? http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=46262&tstart=0 http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=46369&tstart=90 -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun M

Re: [osol-discuss] uname -a shows i386 on 64 bit capable system

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
i86pc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ [8:19am - 107] isainfo -kv 64-bit amd64 kernel modules -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] How to enable XDM?

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
n/graphical-login/cde-login > svcadm: Pattern 'svc:/application/graphical-login/cde-login' doesn't match > any instances What OS/release are you running? The cde login service was renamed a while ago - you can 'svcs -a | grep login' to see if you have it under a differ

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] STAR integration

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ome time working on it - today, there's no one at Sun working on that, or numerous other projects from 2004 that got cancelled and the teams either reassigned or laid off. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. -

Re: [osol-discuss] Correlation of snv_66 to S10 u4

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ray Clark wrote: > Should a bug "fixed" in snv_66 be in S10 u4 (8/07) ? No. They are two completely different branches of the tree, and only a subset of the bugs fixed in snv are backported to S10 updates. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Correlation of snv_66 to S10 u4

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
"Update #" names while they're under development because release dates used in the final names may change), so the patch for Solaris 10 is already in progress, because another customer already did contact technical support to make it a priority. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] What's new for drivers for Xorg on SPARC?

2007-12-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
s card as a graphics device to draw the text console, not just dropping into OBP to make it draw text on the screen), and those drivers for SPARC graphics are currently closed source (though redistributable). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems,

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE 1/08 features

2007-12-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
s only 4 of about a dozen consolidations in SXDE, that's probably a bit more than half the code base between them. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss ma

Re: [osol-discuss] need equivalent for some linux commands.

2007-12-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
will override any auto-probing Xorg does. Correct - /etc/X11/.xorg.conf is the output of Xorg -configure from the last boot. If no xorg.conf file is present, Xorg initializes the keyboard layout based on what was set by the kbd command last - you'll have to restart it after running kbd -s to

Re: [osol-discuss] NSA has backdoors into Windows?

2008-01-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Other parts of third party code in Solaris are tightly restricted and access only available to the engineering teams who work on them. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___

Re: [osol-discuss] NSA has backdoors into Windows?

2008-01-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
gh X, and required us to make various programs stop grabbing the X server, which blocked out all other clients while it was grabbed. Of course, secure sites use Trusted Extensions which protects you against such things. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems,

Re: [osol-discuss] NSA has backdoors into Windows?

2008-01-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
;s done the work for you. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] help in launching our project

2008-01-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
proach would be the Security community - you can find them at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/security/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discu

Re: [osol-discuss] Building QT-4.3.3 with OpenGL enabled

2008-01-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
break many applications - if you absolutely need it, set it only for the applications that need it in wrapper scripts, not for everything. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Building QT-4.3.3 with OpenGL enabled

2008-01-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
x already been applied to > OpenSolaris? I don't know of any bug reports filed or fixes needed there. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-code] xvfb on solaris 10

2008-01-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Any help in resolving this error is appreciated. I've not seen that before, so I'm not sure what causes it. Solaris 10 8/07 adds the X11R7.2 version of Xvfb in /usr/X11/bin/Xvfb - I don't know if that will work any better for you or not. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone know how to purchase a b78 DVD?

2008-01-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kyle McDonald wrote: > And I believe an update to SXDE is coming shortly that will bring it up > to something (at least as new if not) newer than b78. SXDE 1/08 is planned to be based on a respin of b79, and to be released in a couple of weeks. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with GeForce 6200 and Nvidia driver

2008-01-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ume that you don't have a laptop chipset on the video card in your server - what PCI device id does /usr/X11/bin/scanpci (need to run as root) show for your video card? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. -

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2008-01-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Mohan Chandrashekar wrote: > Please let me know how I can contribute to this project. Have you tried joining the mailing list shown on their project page at http://opensolaris.org/os/project/samqfs/ and asking there? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsyst

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2008-01-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Brian Gupta wrote: > Alan, > > I can't find this list here: http://opensolaris.org/os/discussions/ > > Is this because it isn't integrated with the website? Looks like they have a mailing list, but not a web ("jive") forum. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-01-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
knowing what you're missing (I know what I think we need to fix in Indiana before release, but that's probably not the same list as yours). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris CD/DVD Distribution availability as of 01/30/2008

2008-01-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
utting this one pretty close, eh? ;-) Marketing determined a while ago it was easier to just declare the first week of February as "January 2.0" than to go back and change the names everywhere when it slipped a little. 8-) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] issues with X in Indiana

2008-01-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
hope they are > not about 3D or compiz. :-) For Indiana, my highest priority items are about fixing the X packaging and making the X11 libraries binary compatible with Solaris (they are not right now, since they are mainly the current X11R7 versions without any of the previous Solaris modifica

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris CD/DVD Distribution availability as of 01/30/2008

2008-01-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
pparently not, eh? It contains a fairly recent ksh93 that was integrated a few months ago. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2007081701/ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems,

Re: [osol-discuss] Programs compiled on OpenSolaris backwards compatible with Solaris 10?

2008-01-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
o support, so you don't link with libraries/functions that aren't present in the older releases. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss maili

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-01-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
en that we've already got Nexenta, Schillix, Belenix and Martux. Forks aren't always bad, nor unfriendly, and code often flows between them. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e GNOME base libraries or accessibility packages brings them in - the package dependencies in xscreensaver's package (SUNWxwsvr) don't specify them. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Win

Re: [osol-discuss] Software Change was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
be separate package. Not unless you remove the ability to lock the screen and run the configuration utility to choose a screensaver display module from the base package - it's not just GNOME integration, but basic functionality that uses the gtk toolkit. -- -Alan Coopersmit

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e the ability for it to read /etc/shadow for locally-defined users to be able to unlock the screen.We don't make things suid-root without a damn good reason. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Win

Re: [osol-discuss] xscreensaver (was: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79)

2008-02-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> Good question, but I don't know. The problem I see with Xscreensaver is that >>> it is installed suid root on SXCE and thus is unable to read ~/.Xauthor

Re: [osol-discuss] Software Change was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
is open, and we take contributions, but Sun has no reason to spend its resources doing it ourselves. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Software Change was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ken Gunderson wrote: > On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:46:54 -0800 > Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Kyle McDonald wrote: >> The missing link here is deciding it's worthwhile to do that work. >> When xscreensaver was added to Solaris during one of the

Re: [osol-discuss] /bin/sh was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ds to Solaris 2 (now if we could only get the people entering the Code for Freedom contest to do something simple but useful like that instead of correcting all our comment typos...) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window Sy

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
s trademark are being held on [EMAIL PROTECTED], and not any of the other mailing lists you cc'ed - take it there or expect them to not see it. (Followups set to there.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Windo

Re: [osol-discuss] Mesa 7.0.2 support in OpenSolaris

2008-02-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
instead of 6.5.2 or the nvidia version of OpenGL, it's not been our top priority (or at least few people have told us if they do - the only thing I've been asked for from 7.0.2 is the updated Intel driver support). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mic

Re: [osol-discuss] Mesa 7.0.2 support in OpenSolaris

2008-02-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
at the same time because Mesa & Xorg's GLX module are too tightly bound together. We have an engineer looking at doing the upgrade of Mesa & the GLX module, without the rest of Xorg, and you should see on xwin-discuss if & when we go forward with that. -- -Alan Cooper

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview

2008-02-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
vada - there's already been Nevada builds later than it released as SXCE - it's just planned to be the last SXDE release. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensola

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview

2008-02-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kyle McDonald wrote: > Not all bad in my opinion since we'll still have access to SXCE (I > assume,) Certainly we'll have to keep doing SXCE as long as you can only build the OpenSolaris code on SXCE and not on Indiana - how long that will be, I don't know. --

Re: [osol-discuss] Roadmap for Solaris 10?

2008-02-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
n doesn't publish that in advance really, but the beta test program for the next Solaris 10 update is underway. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opens

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
attention about a post on a driver, post it to driver-discuss. If you want an Indiana team member to pay attention to a post on Indiana contents, post it to indiana-discuss. Only if you want to be ignored, do you post it to opensolaris-discuss. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
drivers/files/ > > Not sure where the ae driver is however. The Indiana team is looking at what is needed to include ae and/or unencumber pcn - whether either or both happens is TBD, but given the problems in changing the names of network interfaces, just saying we should drop in "ae&quo

Re: [osol-discuss] Changelog SXCE?

2008-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
o find other than searching their archives, and I only see them for the vermillion branch, not the nevada one delivered into SXCE. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Status update: OGB Nominees 2008 Elections.

2008-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ment for two +1's? All I see in the constitution (section 6.3) is that they must be nominated by one current Member (aka Core Contributor) - no seconds or additional support is listed as required. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Win

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Status update: OGB Nominees 2008 Elections.

2008-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Glynn Foster wrote: > > > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Brandorr wrote: >>> For those that aren't following Bugzilla, in order to become a >>> candidate for the OGB, a person needs a nomination from a core >>> contributor, *TWO* +1s from core

Re: [osol-discuss] Any reason to keep my Ultra 10?

2008-02-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
UNIX admin wrote: > Good to know that Sun treats everyone fairly and equally, isn't it? Many businesses offer volume discounts and other incentives to bigger customers - does it really surprise you that Sun does as well? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Starting independent user session from remote desktop

2008-02-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
19-2450/gfxsb?a=view -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Small OpenSolaris projects for students

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e in JDS & CDE. (Probably need to split this into smaller chunks if doing by yourself in a single semester.) - Bluetooth stack and simple sample driver (mouse or keyboard maybe). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Enginee

Re: [osol-discuss] Informal (and unsanctioned) poll

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
dvds for registering, with no intent needed to participate or ever come back after the shipping form is filled out. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discus

Re: [osol-discuss] [website-discuss] Changelog SXCE?

2008-02-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
at manually in the X ones, since it's rare we need to do that and I know when it happens, but I wouldn't know about any other consolidation. Perhaps this is something the Tonic P-Team should discuss asking the consolidations to think about? [1] http://twitter.com/opensola

Re: [osol-discuss] Help with VNC server setup in build 82 Community Edition

2008-03-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
etting up Xvnc on Solaris Express/Nevada. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] cc -include

2008-03-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
sktop.org/xorg/xserver/log/hw/xfree86/xf1bpp/Makefile.am ) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Support for AMD 780G chipset? OMG!!!

2008-03-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
card? As soon as ATI releases an open source driver, or enough information to the open source developers so they can make a driver, we'll have Solaris support.I have no idea if or when either of those are likely to happen though. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [osol-discuss] Support for AMD 780G chipset? OMG!!!

2008-03-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
and are used in the OLPC, but that's a very different market & product team.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [solarisx86] Picking a Laptop for S10/x86

2008-03-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/os/project/indiana/resources/getit/ It still has a few rough edges as we replace the legally encumbered bits, but it's getting there. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___

Re: [osol-discuss] [solarisx86] Picking a Laptop for S10/x86

2008-03-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
re. > > As soon as /bin/bash isn't the default shell, Defaults are for people who have no preferences of their own. I had no problem creating my account to use /bin/tcsh and copying over my .cshrc with my $PATH. I'm sure someone who calls themself "UNIX admin" can

Re: [osol-discuss] [solarisx86] Picking a Laptop for S10/x86

2008-03-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
t's with "Indiana" and JumpStart? A gaping hole that our test teams continually remind us is needed and the install team keeps pointing to the road map saying "We know, it's planned". You're watching the soup being made, and not everything is in the pot yet.

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Download Center and wget

2008-03-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
no idea what the licenses between RealPlayer & the rest of the world require - but I've seen some of the licenses Sun has that are keeping SXCE trapped in the same situation, and they're not pretty.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get an old build?

2008-03-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
on my SunBlade 2500 (now running nv_84 - I usually live upgrade to the current nevada build every month or two). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensola

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] How to get an old build?

2008-03-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
; fontconfig don't use gtk or glib at all - they're the layer below GNOME - and thus completely unaffected by any of this ASSERTing. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Pointless KDE vs. GNOME discussion was Re: [desktop-discuss] How to get an old build?

2008-03-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
non-compliant CDE, and just added compiz... -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] no CDDL on /etc/default/sys-suspend

2008-03-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
tool which will presumably be open sourced, and delivered somewhere else (since CDE is going away and not having new stuff added to it). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting a Type7 :-)

2008-03-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
in both Sun Serial & USB versions. Type 5c was very different looking - it was the Type 5 with permanently attached cable, instead of a port in the keyboard that the cable plugged into.Sun serial keyboards had beepers built in, including the Type 6 - Sun USB keyboards do not, including the Typ

Re: [osol-discuss] sunfreeware.com best practices

2008-04-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
eeware.com, under contract from Sun, but with different install locations and update schedules). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailin

Re: [osol-discuss] SPARC PCI Graphics

2008-04-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
s x86 HCL on the sun.com website. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SPARC PCI Graphics

2008-04-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
wondering if you might know what UPA cards are supported? As far as I know, Sun was the only company to ever make UPA graphics cards, and all UPA cards Sun made are supported by Solaris/OpenSolaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Win

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there a change list for the upcoming b87 release anywhere?

2008-04-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
lly find the JDS & SFW change logs by finding their "new build available" e-mails in the desktop-discuss & sfwnv-discuss archives. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___

Re: [osol-discuss] xscreensaver not fouond

2008-04-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
reensaver not found. > i am sure you all have seen this before. > > i thought had thought the solution was to echo this line > into the .profile or was it the profile file > > PATH=$PATH /usr/openwin/bin You need a : in there, not a space: PATH=$PATH:/usr/openwin/bin --

Re: [osol-discuss] xscreensaver not found Still not working

2008-04-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
PATH=$PATH:/usr/openwin/bin > > PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/etc:. This second setting of PATH overrides the first one. You'll need to switch the order to make it work as expected, since the openwin one adds to PATH instead of replacing it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PRO

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Compatibility - Developing Products for Solaris

2008-04-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ly dominating among Sparc, x86_64 > and i386 or must I do all three? i386 binaries can run unmodified on x86_64 as well, so you'ld only need two to cover all platforms. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. -

Re: [osol-discuss] Help with Compiz

2008-04-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
heather valentine wrote: > hi > > i would like some help with > compiz on Solaris express Install Solaris Express Community Edition build 85 or later, or the OpenSolaris 2008.05 test (or wait a couple weeks for final) and compiz is already included. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Compatibility - Developing Products for Solaris

2008-04-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ide for full details: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1984?l=en and if you have questions on that, there's a tools-linking list/forum: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/discussions/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems,

Re: [osol-discuss] Suggestion: Add VirtualBox guest additions to Nevada and Indiana

2008-05-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
asked us for it.I don't know of any reason why not, but would have to ask the VirtualBox guys. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mail

Re: [osol-discuss] Suggestion: Add VirtualBox guest additions to Nevada and Indiana

2008-05-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
hen installing Solaris under VMWare before you can get to the point where you can install their guest tools. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing li

Re: [osol-discuss] was Alpine, now Exim...

2008-05-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
James Carlson wrote: > We used to have such a thing in the Companion CD, but that's > apparently fall out of favor with the rise of Indiana. Actually the Companion CD is the main other IPS repository currently available, hosted at sunfreeware.com. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] will there be an sxce build 88 ?

2008-05-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
n issue preventing install with the SXDE installer, so the external release may be similarly delayed. (They ended up not fixing it in 88 and telling people to use one of the other install methods this time around.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystem

Re: [osol-discuss] will opensolaris ever be released under the GPL?

2008-05-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
murdock who abandoned debian. OpenSolaris cannot be released under the GPL as long as it depends on closed binaries in core areas like the kernel and libc - doing so would make it less free as no one could then distribute a working system. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS on SXCE?

2008-05-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
t some level always going to be limited to discussions between the few people working on it and the lawyers reviewing the legal documents involved, since many of those legal documents contain confidentiality clauses. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-05-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
lly need it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
D & Solaris - we just got the ATI graphics DRM (Direct Rendering, not Digital Restrictions) in nv_88 that was mostly developed by Linux guys (the primary maintainer works at Red Hat), due to this. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystem

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris NDIS Wrapper Toolkit!

2008-05-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
gcc-dev SUNWflexlex -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] CDE libraries?

2008-05-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Bill Shannon wrote: > Are or will the CDE libraries be available for OpenSolaris? They are not currently available, and their availability is under investigation right now, so we don't know yet if or when they'll become available or which ones could be provided. -- -Ala

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