I am running a multiple monitor configuration on my b133 workstation. Using the
nvidia-settings control panel, I can set the second monitor up properly (it's
detected and set with the proper resolution automatically). However, after
reboot, Osol always activates only the first (primary)
Works perfectly; thanks for the tip!
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I had a bit of trouble getting Bordeaux working, so I figure I'd share what i
had to do to make this work. Unfortunately, the support forum at Bordeaux
itself is completely moribund, with people (myself included) going several
months without hearing from them. And the documentation doesn't
Thanks for the quick reply. As I said, I still recommend the program---because
it works and its capabilities are otherwise unavailable. As for the install, I
did have to change tar to gtar on my standard OpenSolaris installation, for
reasons I don't know.
Also, do you have a script to do a
According to Sun, you want to make sure you use an SLC SSD for a ZIL, which are
a bit more expensive than the more-common MLC drives. There's the Intel X25-E,
and then the OCZ Agility EX and OCZ Vertex EX. Those are about the only ones I
know that have any significant presence in the
At the risk of getting my own head bitten off:
One the one hand, your message should be a good indication of how OpenSolaris
affects brand new users. It's not Linux, and that's a good thing in many ways.
What you need to realize is that getting all of the user interface tweaks
correct is not
I have the same problem, except it's sporadic: sometimes it powers off; other
times it just gets to the filesystem sync message and sits there. There seems
to be no consistent pattern when it does the physical power off and when it
doesn't I would definitely be nice for this to be fixed!
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Plain-vanilla Dell Precision Workstation T7500; I also installed Osol on my
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Thanks for your message. I tried to download and install this, but there kept
appearing more packages that I didn't have, had to download, and install.
Eventually it was one i couldn't find (gdk-pixbuf-config).
I think in the bigger picture this is one of the things holding back broader
I'm frankly a little shocked by the some of the attitude against people wanting
existing tools that work on other platforms. There are plenty of reasons I use
OpenSolaris, primarily ZFS and managing very large scientific data sets. I have
no real other choice if I want file security and
I'm running my rpool on a single 60GB SSD (OCZ Agility EX). I have updated
maybe half a dozen times (from snv128 to snv134). I had a virtualbox disk on
there, which I have since removed. However, the OS seems to be occupying 50 GB,
which must include a bunch of old files that are not being
Thanks for the tip, particularly about making it automatic! I'd been keeping up
with deleting packages and destroying old boot environments, and removed the
old virtual disk files in .Virtualbox from my home directory. But I think
there's still something like 10-20 GB of junk spread around,
I've today set up a new fileserver using EON 0.600 (based on SNV130). I'm now
copying files between mirrors, and the performance is slower than I had hoped.
I am trying to figure out what to do to make things a bit faster in terms of
performance. Thanks in advance for reading, and sharing any
If Oracle /Sun truly desire Open Solaris or Solaris to be a viable
alternative to Windows and expand their userbase and financial bottom line
I don't see how Oracle / Sun is really going to expand its bottom line by
spending a huge amount of money supporting an end-user operating system that
Some more things that need to be done are:
Not able to play videos and movies in the name of
proprietary software
Whoa. Have you seen Fluendo? I use it to play QuickTime and Flash, plus any
MIcrosoft-based format I've ever encountered, and it works better on
OpenSolaris than on Windows, in
Is there something missing from what Fluendo offers? I use it for QuickTime,
Flash, and everything Microsoft.
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I'm wanting to fire up a new SSD for an L2ARC on a ZFS box I've put together,
and was looking at some of the new drives. Many of the faster ones, with great
read speeds, are SATA-6G compatible, and I'm wondering if any of you has gotten
these cards to work.
In particular, the Asus U3S6:
Adding my two cents:
I use OSOL as my everyday workstation OS. I prefer it to Ubuntu (very slightly,
see below), and definitely over WinXP and Win7. One MAJOR reason is that it
doesn't break. Ubuntu is always updating, and that reboot always involves a bit
of nervousness until the login screen
So I've tried both the ASUS U3S6, and the Koutech IO-PESA-A230R, recommended by
the helpful blog:
http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10
In BOTH cases, the SSD appears in the card's BIOS screen at bootup, so that the
card sees it and recognizes it properly.
I'm running EON 0.60 (SNV130), and once I
I'm running this in a Dell PowerEdge T410, 2 GHz Xeon (Core i7) with 8 GB of
RAM. There are six 2TB drives attached to a Dell SAS 6i/R card, which are
recognized just fine. I wanted to add the the SSD as an L2ARC, and am using the
same PCIe SATA card that is running the CD-ROM drive (which
Thanks for the question. Indeed, I can see the SSD if I plug it into the
motherboard controller, but it's a retarded one that needs Windows for AHCI;
the only way for OpenSolaris or Linux to recognize is if I run in the old ATA
mode, which is really slow.
I don't know enough about either of
Thanks for the suggestion.
Any idea how to check the specific chipset number?
At bootup, the BIOS says: 88SE91xx, and doesn't give the last couple of numbers.
I've tried to look within OSOL itself, say using the device driver manager on
the LiveCD, but it just says SATA controller.
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@dre2kse:
I can't get either of these cards to work at all. I tried the suggestion to
boot the LiveCD, and it shows the AHCI driver attached to the SATA controller.
When I run format, I don't see the drive attached to the card. I've tried this
with an SSD and a regular HD, switched all the
So I'm throwing up the white flag on this one. My SAS controller (Dell SAS
6i/R) works just fine, but I was using the recommended cables for the six
drives in my system (which has four SATA/SAS connectors on one channel, but
only two on the other). Since it has two of the special SFF(?)
First off, a huge thank you to the folks at LinuxWacom who adapted and compiled
the binaries for the Wacom drawing tablet drivers for OpenSolaris. That was
truly a labor of love that (finally) allows me to use my drawing tablet.
I'm running Adobe Photoshop on WinXP inside VirtualBox. In the
Thanks for your help.
Three questions:
1. Would the mouse pointer then be turned over to the tablet in the WinXP
window only? That is, when I move the mouse, it would control the host OS
(OpenSolaris), and the pen itself would be confined to WinXP, and could not
affect the host?
2. Can I
I'm running a mirrored pair of 2 TB SATA drives as my data storage drives on my
home workstation, a Core i7-based machine with 10 GB of RAM. I recently added a
sandforce-based 60 GB SSD (OCZ Vertex 2, NOT the pro version) as an L2ARC to
the single mirrored pair. I'm running B134, with ZFS pool
Has anyone looked into the new LTFS on LTO-5 for tape backups? Any idea how
this would work with ZFS? I'm presuming ZFS send / receive are not going to
work. But it seems rather appealing to have the metadata properly with the
data, and being able to browse files directly instead of having to
Thanks, and we've already been over this particular issue, and I'm still not
interested in using CDrecord at this point. I'd ask anyone else if they've been
able to use VirtualBox non-open-source to get DVD-writing access within
Windows? Thanks.
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Ah, thanks for the information!
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Congrats on the new project!
A quick business-case question for you: is there a way you might offer
something reasonable in return for some financial support / donations from the
community? There are a lot of us who depend on OpenSolaris, and are frustrated
by the lack of updates, bug fixes,
Okay, then, do tell me: does CDRecord support BluRay?
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So CUDA is for numerical computation, and doesn't involve any display, per se.
Of course you can visualize your results with the graphics card in many cases
with OpenGL directly, but that's not the point.
There have long been rumors about a CUDA driver for Solaris / OpenSolaris, but
it's never
Cool; thanks!
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I did (finally) manage to figure out where all the space went: various
VirtualBox snapshots, variously buried within ZFS snapshots, took up tens of
gigs of space. Once those were all merged and cleaned up, my disk is back to
happy state, with about 30 GB free on a 60 GB disk. Thanks for all of
No reason to apologize; you guys have been SO helpful to me, getting started
with OpenSolaris over the past year. In the event, the system is working fine.
I have a 8-port Dell SAS 6i/R controller, but the default cable set for this
machine only has six connectors (four on channel 0, and two on
Thanks to the help from many people on this board, I finally got my
OpenSolaris-based NAS box up and running.
I have a Dell T410 with a Xeon E5504 2.0 GHz (Nehalem) quad-core processor, 8
GB of RAM. I have six 2TB Hitachi Deskstar (HD32000IDK/7K) SATA drives, set up
as stripes across three
Thanks, guys.
I actually have two ethernet ports on the server, so in principle I should be
able to use automatic link-aggregation in OSOL to do this, right? If I
understand correctly, the two adapters get teamed, and only require a single IP
address, right?
Of course, then to see any
Thanks for the tips. I'll check out Wireshark.
A second question: how do you assess performance within the box itself? I'm
using iostat -x, but there's also bonnie (which I've never used). If I want to
figure out if the network is the limiting factor, I should also figure out the
limiting
So this is a good call all around. I finally figured out (once again, thanks to
another helpful post on this board) about how to benchmark with DD. Doing the
direct reads and writes to a non-deduped, non-compressed filesystem over NFS, I
get about 110 MB/sec reading, and writing, which is very
So I've gotten link aggregation working on the server and one of the clients
(had a small adventure recovering an older Linksys SRW2008 switch). The
performance actually dropped a bit on the one client. (the easiest way to test
this is to just unplumb and replumb the various combinations of
I have a file server that I've basically maxed out the drive bays for. At the
moment, I'm running Nexenta on an SSD that is sort of resting on something else
in the case. I was wondering if, instead, I could install Nexenta on a SATA
Disk on Module (DOM), say something like 4 GB, dual channel,
Alasdair: for those of us interested, what is the best way to reach you?
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Thanks for the info. Unfortunately my EON flash drive lost /mnt/ so I couldn't
do much in terms of changing the system. I wanted to try Nexenta, anyway, since
it's a lot easier to manage (things like NFS are a bit more of a pain with
EON). So now I'm booting Nexenta from an Intel X25-V SSD, but
I am running NexentaStor 3.0.3-1 on a fileserver, and have it set up for CIFS
and NFS access. I have three clients, running Win7, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and OSol
B134 (will upgrade soon to OpenIndiana!). For the NFS machines, if I create a
folder or file with Ubuntu (using just the standard NFS
Thanks. I tried this, and the guestok=true does not appear to be valid option
(at least that i could find) for zfs set sharenfs. Does this apply only to CIFS?
Also, is there a way just to put the command into the Nexenta gui? I don't mind
doing it from the command line (as it is, I have to run
Thanks! It seems to be working now! I really appreciate the help!
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So I turned the machine off for a month when I was out of town. I started
everything up, and now I have the same permissions problem I had before---but
the option of 'anon=0' is still there (see above description)!?! Does anyone
have an idea what might be going wrong?
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