Re: [osol-discuss] Re: perf problem during nv-b18-x86 install

2005-07-21 Thread Paul Gress
Joerg Schilling wrote: This looks like the generel Solaris volmgt problem that will disapear with build 19 or 20. Did you try to do the scanbus with a medium in the CD-ROM drive? Jörg No, I believe I had it working before I knew exactly why it would or wouldn't work. But, that won't

[osol-discuss] Laptop WIFI

2005-10-13 Thread Paul Gress
Just wanted to post my findings on getting my laptop wifi working. I have an HP pavilion ze4430 which came with a Broadcom wifi mini-pci card internally. After reading about the Solaris Wireless Driver for the Atheros 52xx Chipset (ath) ref

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop WIFI

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Gress
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Thursday 13 October 2005 10:25 pm, Paul Gress wrote: I searched ebay and came across a company that has generic mini-pci cards with the Atheros 5212 chip. I purchased the card, removed the old Broadcom card, loaded the SUNWatheros package and it just worked

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: How To Mount CDROM?

2005-10-23 Thread Paul Gress
powwop wrote: Hi All, the following is what I've tried for mounting, mount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c1t0d0 /cdrom I usually mount with the command mount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2 /cdrom with these errors mount:No such device mount: cannot mount /dev/dsk/c1t0d0 mount -F iso9660

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Paul Gress
Erast Benson wrote: Also putting too much in OSOL LCD(OpenSolaris least common denominator) will break distribution's individuality. So, please lets be careful here. Then maybe there needs to be another distribution. Solaris LCD. Or maybe, when installing software, you would check for

[osol-discuss] KDE Translucency

2005-12-28 Thread Paul Gress
I'm trying to configure my KDE environment for its translucency. I'm using 3.4.3 compiled with Suns compilers, basically the latest version available at http://www.solaris.kde.org/. The requirements state: 1) Xorg or =to 6.8 Done, Solaris 10, Update 1 installed 2) GPU

Re: [osol-discuss] KDE Translucency

2005-12-28 Thread Paul Gress
Stefan Teleman wrote: On 12/28/05, Paul Gress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4) Installed the kompmgr that came with kwin. Problem. Searched the whole installation for this file, not there. kompmgr cannot be built (yet) on S10 because the S10 Xorg 6.8.2 does not yet support XComposite

Re: [osol-discuss] A grand unification ?

2006-04-22 Thread Paul Gress
Dennis Clarke wrote: ALL : I am certainly willing to talk. And listen. Make changes. Make peace. Here - Here, +1 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-28 Thread Paul Gress
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: As for the last 5 years - name 5 high profile, main stream, software titles that have come to Solaris x86 - not drivers like OSS, or plugins like Flash/Shockwave or Real, but application suites like MYOB, Peachtree accounting etc. etc. Gee, I'm using PTC Pro-Engineer

Re: [osol-discuss] Software for Solaris

2006-05-28 Thread Paul Gress
Dennis Clarke wrote: Well .. that is desktop really. Domino is a server thing. Perhaps we can come up with a list here of applications that were once supported on both architectures of Solaris and have vanished. Let's also include new apps that never were supported but could be. This is just

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Software for Solaris (was Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86)

2006-05-30 Thread Paul Gress
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: right time to do it now. Given SUN's payment of $200million to SCO (for not alot of stuff IMHO), the reliability of SUN as a Linux partner comes into question - slam Linux, then provide middleware for it. So, approximately 10 years ago when SUN purchased a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-30 Thread Paul Gress
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Hence the reason I don't believe Sun has EVER talked to Adobe over this Acrobat issue - honestly, how many companies would turn down free money? I mean, if Scott turned up at your door step, paid you $10million in cash, and all you had to do was port an application or

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Paul Gress
Artem Kachitchkine wrote: I'm not talking servers but desktop clients. This means that they most likely for most of the time end up with big vendors such as Dell, IBM, Fujitsu Siemens, HP and so on. If you look closer up till recenty ALL of those business boxes came with the latest Intel

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: desktop responsiveness: solaris vs linux

2006-07-10 Thread Paul Gress
Patrick wrote: ok, that sounds logical, but i just did a dmesg and i get this pertaining to the CD drive: Jul 10 22:54:59 desiderata genunix: [ID 640982 kern.info] ATAPI device at targ 0, lun 0 lastlun 0x0 Jul 10 22:54:59 desiderata genunix: [ID 846691 kern.info] model

Re: [osol-discuss] problem with Installing web browser opera 9

2006-07-26 Thread Paul Gress
Teng wrote: Hi all, I just try to install web browser opera9 on my IBM laptop R52. The software be installed without any error, but when I try to run it, /usr/local/bin/opera It tells me: - Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How to mute internal speaker

2006-08-08 Thread Paul Gress
Raymond wrote: Sorry it doesn't help. The problem is when I play audio files, the sound is coming from the internal speaker. I want to disable this, however mixerctl command does not support it, it only displays the status of the device and various fields in audio_info_t structure. Why

[osol-discuss] Differences between Vermillion and Community Edition

2007-04-05 Thread Paul Gress
OK, I'm a little confused and I hope someone can set me straight. I was prepared to install build 62 in my laptop tonight so I can set it up to boot off of the ZFS. Upon so, I could only find Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) Build 61 and Vermillion 62. What is the difference? If I

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Request for Community Comment: An

2007-05-09 Thread Paul Gress
MC wrote: A break from your server discussion because I stubbed my toe on this one: Office functionality, and better, and then some, is provided for by OpenOffice. I'm all for positive thinking. But don't delude yourself -- OpenOffice (and StarOffice for that matter) is not better

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [desktop-discuss] Re: New project: JPack - install

2007-05-11 Thread Paul Gress
MC wrote: the SUNW is part of the package name, it's also what the pkg commands expect[s] But does that matter for a graphical app like this? I haven't used it yet, but almost every package having SUNW on the front in the GUI doesn't help me at all, I'm pretty sure. I tend to

[osol-discuss] Re: [desktop-discuss] New project: JPack - install your software easily !

2007-05-11 Thread Paul Gress
Michal Pryc wrote: Hello, I would like to announce a new project called JPack, which will provide a GUI application for managing different types of packages for Solaris Operating System. for more information: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/tasks/jpack/ and

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-01 Thread Paul Gress
Alan Burlison wrote: Steve Lau has explained this very clearly, perhaps there should be a link to his diagram on the download page... http://whacked.net/2007/02/13/opensolarissolaris-relationships/ The way I see it, is all the distributions have their own theme. SXCE - SXDE - S11 is Suns

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-02 Thread Paul Gress
Brian Gupta wrote: This would be great, except that blastwave is built for Solaris 8, not OpenSolaris. It probably not best to be dependent on what Solaris 8 does not have. What is needed is a Blastwave II (OpenSolaris Edition) which combines the current work done in

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: change all permissions

2007-06-08 Thread Paul Gress
Семёнов Владимир Викторович wrote: Вообще странно знать, что Вы не должны менять permissions в OpenSolaris - открытой системе! ;) Ещё более непонятно ограничения для суперпользователя! Для чего тогда он нужен? Если devfs живёт по своим законам, то всёравно должен быть способ этим управлять,

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-17 Thread Paul Gress
Al wrote: [b]McNeely: We had to pay SCO more money so we could open the code. [/b] Nobody here has yet explained how Sun managed to legitimately open-source code without getting permission from Novell. The fact that SCO agreed to this and Sun paid them money to do so seems to be irrelevant

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there a restart option button?

2007-11-07 Thread Paul Gress
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Hi, is there a restart option button in Solaris 10? No. But if you are running a stand-alone Solaris desktop you can improvise by changing the sticky bit of the /usr/sbin/reboot script, and creating a desktop launcher. For me, I just created a Launcher

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there a restart option button?

2007-11-07 Thread Paul Gress
John Sonnenschein wrote: or alternately, use facilities already in solaris so you don't have to use hackish things such as sudo ;) with RBAC you can make it so your regular login user has privileges to reboot/poweroff the machine On 7-Nov-07, at 4:34 PM, Paul Gress wrote: Pardon my

Re: [osol-discuss] Pro/E Wildfire on OpenSolaris 2008.5?

2008-06-04 Thread Paul Gress
Aaron Wilson wrote: Probably the wrong group to ask so I apologize, but has any one tried running Pro/E Wildfire on OpenSolaris 2008.5? One of our workstations is having issues, and it sort of looking like reinstalling Solaris 10 might be the only option left. If I'm gonna do that though,

Re: [osol-discuss] Pro/E Wildfire on OpenSolaris 2008.5?

2008-06-04 Thread Paul Gress
Calum Benson wrote: On 4 Jun 2008, at 21:10, Aaron Wilson wrote: Good point. Is there way to tell if I'm currently using Motif? Ah, Pro/E Wildifire... that brings back memories, I used to work for PTC :) (But not on Pro/E...) One way to tell if an application depends on

Re: [osol-discuss] OS2008.05, OpenOffice: Fonts, License?

2008-06-24 Thread Paul Gress
Shawn Walker wrote: [Fonts] Check the Font tab in the Appearance control panel. You'll want to enable the subpixel setting more than likely. Indeed tweaking around these settings did help, thanks. It seems however that these settings never directly change the appearance of

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-26 Thread Paul Gress
Kristian Rink wrote: Folks; another migration-related question: I do have a fairly well sized USB drive to hold data so far to share between Linux, Windows and OpenSolaris, thus the lowest common denominator (in terms of file systems) being FAT32. Taken into account I do have also to backup

Re: [osol-discuss] nv93 available - thank you!

2008-07-10 Thread Paul Gress
Uwe Dippel wrote: Just started my download of nv93. Noted that the size has pretty much shrunk, to 2915200 kB. While this is good for the download, may I ask if we can expect leaner code, or have certain items been removed? Well for one, Sun Studio has been removed, or I just can't find

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-08-28 Thread Paul Gress
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Hi Waynel Please don't get me wrong. I myself am responsible for driving openoffice adoption at my work place. I myself have gone from wordstar to word perfect (5.02) to word and then I used star office before openoffice existed. But because I have also worked with

Re: [osol-discuss] irefox 3.0.1 contrib. builds for Solaris10 hungs when printing is attempted

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Gress
Aaron Wilson wrote: Works fine for me when printing. Solaris 10 U5 using blastwave cups to manage print jobs. I don't think the latter really matters though since FF 3.01 just uses lpr to print, though I am using the blastwave version of lpr and lp too. Locks up for me with Blastwave

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_98 iso

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Gress
Bill Shannon wrote: On a different but related topic... I downloaded the snv_98 iso, burned it to DVD (it wouldn't fit on a CD), but when I try to boot on an old Dell 4550 it fails in a different way each time I try - sometimes disk errors, sometimes some problem with some service, sometimes

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

2008-10-23 Thread Paul Gress
Matt Wilby wrote: No note explaining the delay. Not very 'open' is it? b101 on consolidation doesn't contain all the files either. Not comparing Opensolaris with Linux or BSD for a minute, but at least with something like OpenSUSE you get a basic explanation for delays in releases. I'm

Re: [osol-discuss] *LOL* : - Xorg on SPARC will not work with any driver except the included wsfb (which only works on m64 graphics in 8-bit mode) unless you get updated matching driver packages from

2008-12-28 Thread Paul Gress
Martin Bochnig wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com wrote: Martin Bochnig wrote: ***LOL***: And here I thought the part you'd appreciate most was going to be that no one downloaded the builds I announced either No, why

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-15 Thread Paul Gress
Michael Schuster wrote: Fredrich Maney wrote: I want Sun and the Solaris and OpenSolaris communities to realize that they have, bar none, the best OS on the planet You're preaching to the choir :-) it's the people who aren't in these communities that we want to convince, and -

Re: [osol-discuss] How to install a font?

2009-03-09 Thread Paul Gress
Woong Bin Kang wrote: Open Nautilus window. Go to your home directory. Press Ctrl+H to show all hidden directories. If not present, create a directory called .fonts (mkdir .fonts) Copy your font files to that directory. You should be able to see fonts added now. Woongbin I'm not sure if

Re: [osol-discuss] Copying files and folders

2009-03-12 Thread Paul Gress
Hanma wrote: Opera works, but there is no icons anywhere. The last problem is icons, i don't understand, why installation can't create icons? I've alway been installing Opera as they update it. I also get the problem with no icons, for many releases earlier and current. It is only a

[osol-discuss] Acroreader 9.1

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Gress
Hi all, I just decided to check Adobe's ftp directory for acroreader and a new directory was posted for v9.1. It contains both x86 and x64 versions of acroreader. What it does not contain is a Sparc version. ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.1/enu/ Paul

Re: [osol-discuss] could ZFS be used to replace FAT/FAT32 in removeable media

2009-03-27 Thread Paul Gress
casper@sun.com wrote: There are many reasons why this doesn't fly: - First of all you will need to build away to easily, automatically import and export removable ZFS pools - Installed base (windows, USB, cameras) - pcfs uses about 1/10 of the code needed for

Re: [osol-discuss] what do you use for vector graphics?

2009-03-27 Thread Paul Gress
Craig van Vliet wrote: Hi Coming from windows I previously used illustrator, then in ubuntu it was inkscape and xara extreme. These packages aren't available (yet??), so what do people use to draw pictures. If they are working in an opensolaris only environment? Cheers Craig I use

Re: [osol-discuss] How to copy DVD?

2009-04-03 Thread Paul Gress
Andrius wrote: How to copy DVDs in OpenSolaris? http://www.sunfreepacks.com/listing/?limit=10offset=20 Your looking for dvdbackup-0.1.1. Project is at http://dvd-create.sourceforge.net/ Paul ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Java Desktop

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Gress
Mark Breecher wrote: Thanks for the reply, On the the Solaris Distribution from Sun.com you of course have a choice of either the Java Desktop System or CDE. Well I realize that you have stopped developing CDE (which is a shame) but the GNOME desktop is nothing like Java Desktop System on

Re: [osol-discuss] Nvidia driver 180.60 available

2009-06-01 Thread Paul Gress
John Martin wrote: ken mays wrote: Hello, Seems like if you run into issues running a certain application with OS 2009.06 (i.e. using Nvidia driver 180.44), Nvidia has proved an updated 180.60 driver at: ftp://download.nvidia.com/solaris/180.60/NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-180.60.run Normal

Re: [osol-discuss] 2009.06 dev (B117) FlashPlayer plugin sound

2009-07-03 Thread Paul Gress
John Martin wrote: To verify, go to: http://www.thomasandfriends.com/usa/videos.asp right click in the video window and choose About flash Does it say you have 10,0,22,87? [You can also do this by typing about:plugs in the browser]. That should be about:plugins. Also, about:plugins

Re: [osol-discuss] Issue with adobe flash player

2009-07-05 Thread Paul Gress
Alex wrote: I try to put the adobe flash player 10 .so for x86 in my mozilla folder, reset firefox like it asks, and test the plugin, but every time I do it doesn't work. Does anyone have an idea why this doesn't work/ a way to help? Mine works with SXCE 117. You didn't mention about the

Re: [osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?

2009-07-09 Thread Paul Gress
Orvar Korvar wrote: I dont get that. I can not find any Main Menu Main Menu All Applications System Tools Configuration Editor I only have three menus, Program, Places and System. There is no main menu. Anyway, In the picture above in the first post here, I think Windows XP looks far

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox 3.5 for OpenSolaris, where can i get them?

2009-07-21 Thread Paul Gress
Joerg Schilling wrote: Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhun...@gmail.com wrote: Just did a pkgadd -d on the package, and ran /opt/sfw/bin/firefox directly. I changed my launchers in GNOME to launch the new Firefox. The old Firefox still exists on my machine. This is what I did too and this

Re: [osol-discuss] Killer new feature- Midoris in Jaris!!!

2009-07-22 Thread Paul Gress
Matthew Nawrocki wrote: Hmm... hey dude, you might want to check out the downloads section on Wine's project website (http://winehq.org/) and, lo' and behold, is a link to the OpenSolaris package download. I didn't see a development release package, but at least there is something to try.

Re: [osol-discuss] Killer new feature- Midoris in Jaris!!!

2009-07-23 Thread Paul Gress
Thommy M. Malmström wrote: I can confirm that wine version works for me. Have you got Spotify running on it? Installed it, got to the sign in prompt, have no sign in. Went to web site, not available in my country, USA. Can't answer you, sorry. Paul

Re: [osol-discuss] Anybody in OpenSolaris land run in to this bug in Open Office?

2009-07-25 Thread Paul Gress
Anon Y Mous wrote: I've had users complain about this bug before: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/16/openoffice_autofilter_bug_feature/ The reason I'm bringing it up in OpenSolaris discuss is because my long term goal in life is to eventually get every installed copy of Microsoft

Re: [osol-discuss] Anybody in OpenSolaris land run in to this bug in Open Office?

2009-07-26 Thread Paul Gress
Thommy M. Malmström wrote: I followed the instructions in 2977 and the text XX was still intact. This was with the development edition dev300_m53 (future v3.2). How can I have both a stable OOo 3.1 and a development OOo version installed at the same time in OpenSolaris 2009.06?

[osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: Anybody in OpenSolaris land run in to this bug in Open Office?]

2009-07-26 Thread Paul Gress
Sorry, I stripped out a directory in /opt, is should have read: $ ls -al /opt ... ... drwxr-xr-x 4 root bin 512 Jul 24 11:54 ooo-dev drwxr-xr-x 7 root bin 512 Jul 24 11:52 ooo-dev3 drwxr-xr-x 5 root bin 512 Apr 30 12:29 openoffice.org drwxr-xr-x 7

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Gress
casper@sun.com wrote: The point is that they don't *need* or have to be in the installer. They're just as beneficial and useful at firstboot, in a Visual Panel, or somewhere else. There is no overwhelmingly great reason to force them to be part of the install process. Installation

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Gress
Volker A. Brandt wrote: Visual panels do not work when you need to install 100s of systems. Just a thought, couldn't you use a USB Stick to save configuration files, so the next 99 installs take data from there? Hmmm the 100s of systems will usually be installed

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE end-of-life plans

2009-08-19 Thread Paul Gress
Mike DeMarco wrote: I believe Oct is the right time for this! Middle of Hurricane season. This is looking like a monumental disaster! I am too am running SXCE and nervous about changing to Opensolaris. I knew it would happen someday. No matter what day, week, month or year for changing,

Re: [osol-discuss] Installing IPS on a opensolaris.

2009-08-19 Thread Paul Gress
atul kulkarni wrote: Here is what's on my /etc/release Solaris Nevada snv_67 X86 Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 18 June 2007 My uname -a is SunOS

Re: [osol-discuss] Example of SXCE to OpenSolaris migration

2009-08-19 Thread Paul Gress
Cyril Plisko wrote: Hi ! There are mentions from time to time of a big file server in Sun that powers home dirs and a lot of other stuff. They say jurassic is the name. Rumors talk about this server being upgraded biweekly to the latest Nevada build. If that is true, it would be interesting to

Re: [osol-discuss] Example of SXCE to OpenSolaris migration

2009-08-19 Thread Paul Gress
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Paul Gress wrote: The difference is, SXCE will not be available to the public, but will still be available internally. Nope - we're stopping building it at the same time for everyone. Thanks, I stand corrected. Paul

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris b122 and printing

2009-09-05 Thread Paul Gress
Bengt Farre wrote: After upgrading from b118 to b122 the network discvery failed again but now with function does not exist. Executing start method (/lib/svc/method/svc-network-discovery start snmp). ] /usr/bin/dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal --type=method_call

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris b122 and printing

2009-09-09 Thread Paul Gress
Norm Jacobs wrote: I forgot to mention that if you use CUPS as your print system, you don't need the printers:snmp service because CUPS and it's managment app system-config-printer, don't use HAL for network attached printer discovery. So let me see if I have this correct. Since I'm using

[osol-discuss] Upgrade to Opensolaris dev 123 from SXCE b122 complete

2009-09-22 Thread Paul Gress
First I would like to praise all the people involved in developing Opensolaris. I have now successfully upgraded (sort of) from my install of SXCE. It went pretty smooth with exception of one hiccup, which I'll get to later. My procedure was to purchase a new hard drive (in my case, Intel

Re: [osol-discuss] Any way to upgrade/migrate SXCE to opensolaris?

2009-09-25 Thread Paul Gress
keithk wrote: With SXCE EOL drawing near, I am thinking of switching over to opensolaris from SXCE. Is there any document on how to upgrade the current SXCE install over to opensolaris? I'm am going to miss the well integrated desktop that Sun puts out in the SXCE distribution. StarOffice 9,

Re: [osol-discuss] 128 bit technology

2009-10-12 Thread Paul Gress
John Thompson wrote: On 2009-10-11, Peter Jones bloosk...@netscape.net wrote: Microsoft has announced that the next release windows 8 will be a 128 bit system.Apart from haveing few applications,isv,isv,on their side.Is this a marketing gimmick or saine thinking? Will opensolaris work on

Re: [osol-discuss] create a directory/ file

2009-10-22 Thread Paul Gress
sridhar wrote: In short, I want the full power of unix and all it's commands in the GUI form. Oh, GOD, when I will use that kind of unix. I think it will be a dream as long as there are incorrigible fans of CUI commands in user population. Simply put, for file management gui with root

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to access the open solaris across the network..Urg!!!

2009-10-23 Thread Paul Gress
sridhar wrote: looks like we have to say that very fundamental/basic static ip configuration is not working in open solaris 2009.06. Any relevant authorized person around here, please confirm this. It was announced today that NWAM v 1.0 will be available as a separate download. NWAM

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to access the open solaris across the network..Urg!!!

2009-10-23 Thread Paul Gress
sridhar wrote: still 2 more qs to answer. It would be so much easier to understand most of your comments if you leave some relevant text behind your comment. Paul ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Problems with hal service on OpenSolaris 2009.06

2009-10-29 Thread Paul Gress
carlopmart wrote: Hi all, tomorrow I have executed dmesg and I see this error: Oct 29 12:38:26 hobbiton svc.startd[7]: [ID 652011 daemon.warning] svc:/system/hal:default: Method /lib/svc/method/svc-hal start failed with exit status 127. Oct 29 12:38:27 hobbiton last message repeated 2

Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade to Opensolaris dev 123 from SXCE b122 complete

2009-11-19 Thread Paul Gress
John Martin wrote: Stephen Whyte wrote: Hi, Is it difficult to get pro engineer running on opensolaris. Which version of Wildfire and this is for x64, right? The only issue with a standard installation may be the Motif libraries are missing. Make certain you load package SUNWmfrun. I

Re: [osol-discuss] system info

2009-12-01 Thread Paul Gress
Harry Putnam wrote: Tim Bell tim.b...@sun.com writes: [...] Harry wrote: It appears there is no simple way to get the output by scripting, since `format' doesn't close by itself. Its probably dead easy to run it with a `quit' or `exit' somewhere but I'm not sure how that might be done.

Re: [osol-discuss] Migration from windows to Linux

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Gress
Neil Houston wrote: Sorry to burst your bubble, but OpenOffice is simply nowhere near Microsoft Office. To you, perhaps, but try selling it to your Admin staff who sit in Excel all day. It doesn't even come close. I disagree. I have enormous spreadsheets created using Openoffice, and I have

Re: [osol-discuss] Migration from windows to Linux

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Gress
Nibal Al-Ghoul wrote: Is Nexenta free? No need to get license Yes, Free. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Gress
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Ken Mays wrote: Hello, The latest Nvidia 190.42 driver is not included on the latest snv_128a development ISO yet. Any word on 195.22 beta yet. I've downloaded this one already, but it requires a lot of work to install it and is not integrated properly into

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

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Gress
John Martin wrote: Paul Gress wrote: Any word on 195.22 beta yet. I've downloaded this one already, but it requires a lot of work to install it and is not integrated properly into Opensolaris (VM). As you note it is still beta, so it isn't a candidate for bunding. The Sun version

Re: [osol-discuss] Because I don't know where to find help

2010-02-15 Thread Paul Gress
On 02/15/10 07:16 AM, Chad Welsh wrote: here is the staroffice support page http://supportforum.Sun.COM/ see if it works for you cause it is a blank page for me A couple of clicks from the home page I found this:

Re: [osol-discuss] Because I don't know where to find help

2010-02-15 Thread Paul Gress
On 02/15/10 11:36 AM, Paul Gress wrote: On 02/15/10 07:16 AM, Chad Welsh wrote: here is the staroffice support pagehttp://supportforum.Sun.COM/ see if it works for you cause it is a blank page for me A couple of clicks from the home page I found this: http://sunsolve.sun.com/show.do

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris on slashdot

2010-02-24 Thread Paul Gress
On 02/24/10 05:17 PM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Yeah, when the news doesn't fit our liking, we can always discredit the source. :-) I thought the same thing, just a little differently. The Opensolaris mail exploders can be viewed to be biased towards Opensolaris. Having said that,

Re: [osol-discuss] Build 134 Won't boot

2010-03-09 Thread Paul Gress
On 03/ 9/10 08:50 PM, alan pae wrote: After removing the 133 boot environment then the system went back to the non booting again. So I had to modify menu.lst again and set console=text and then all was well. Saved me tonight. I had just upgraded from b133 to b134 and also was getting

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-28 Thread Paul Gress
On 03/28/10 10:51 PM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: I will make an effort to have this sort of language and tone blocked and your email removed permanently. This is unacceptable. speaking as a businessman I certianly [sic] do. Quite franky [sic], on these public mail

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-28 Thread Paul Gress
On 03/29/10 01:07 AM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: These forums aren't censored for content, just for fowl language, we try to keep it civil here. I agree with Dennis Clarks warning. Yes, they are censored for foul language. This is how the post that is provoking the outrage appears if you

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-29 Thread Paul Gress
On 03/29/10 02:06 AM, bsd wrote: OpenSolaris has some nice technologies, but with FreeBSD you can run zfs. With the 8.0 release you can run vimage which is essentially Solaris Zones, while FreeBSD has had jails for years and recently upgraded jails to v2. Crossbow is really the only feature

Re: [osol-discuss] A statement for defending OpenSolaris

2010-03-29 Thread Paul Gress
On 03/29/10 12:07 PM, Matthew Nawrocki wrote: Hello all: As of late, I have begun to notice increasing levels of pessimism and grumbling amongst users (and former users) of OpenSolaris. As a glasses half-full type, I would like to remind everyone that whining and complaining about petty

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/ 5/10 09:43 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Matthias Pfütznermatth...@pfuetzner.de writes: more ISVs, ISV ? Independent Software Vendor ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/ 7/10 11:57 AM, bsd wrote: You people are really uptight and defensive about OpenSolaris and any talk about negative intentions Oracle may have towards it. I stand by my position about x86/Sparc, it was developed for x86 laptops (OpenSolaris is like PC-BSD), because who would develop a

Re: [osol-discuss] failed to add publisher?

2010-04-07 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/ 7/10 01:52 PM, solarg wrote: but that's not exactly what i want to do. On my laptop, i created, weeks ago, my own repo, called localhost. This is when i compile myself missing apps. But now, i want to add a new publisher, found here: http://ips.enst.fr:1/ and i'm not able to

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/ 7/10 04:53 PM, Matthias Pfützner wrote: So, how's build 134 doing? It seems, you have an thinkpad with a nvidia card, as the only reported systems having that reboot-loop-problem were some such... I had the same problem with my Nvidia Quadro 1600M Graphics card in a Clevo D901C

Re: [osol-discuss] Firefox 3.5.5 with SXCE can't load page

2010-04-12 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/12/10 07:05 PM, bsd wrote: SXCE build 130 which is the last build produced has all that I want as far as software like Bluefish. I've tried to compile Bluefish on OpenSolaris b134 but received errors, so I thought of SXCE and installed. Bluefish is included in the Opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-14 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/14/10 10:56 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Chad Welsh wrote: So, when and who might be the first step/person to make this happen to protect what has been done so far? What would your fork do differently than the main project, besides have almost no developers working on it, since

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-14 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/14/10 12:12 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Paul Gress wrote: If their pushing to the main OpenSolaris gates every day, why hasn't anything been released. Why cannot I upgrade to b135, b136 or b137? Every previous time we've had a release in progress, updates to /dev stopped while

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-14 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/14/10 01:11 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: How can it appear to be ^frozen^? Then maybe you are not subscribed to the right lists. Appears and actual are two different things. What I mean by appears is nothing has been published as in some form of a binary release for me to upgrade

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-14 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/14/10 01:34 PM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: Sounds like you are experienced ;-) Personal attacks rarely will help you make your point so please stop it. I didn't take is as a personal attack, I saw the smiley face, it was meant as a joke. Paul

Re: [osol-discuss] b137 based on tonic or otherwise

2010-04-14 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/14/10 03:17 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 04/14/10 01:33 PM, David E. Anderson wrote: While we're at it... I am running b134 and use the dev branch; when 2010.new comes out, how do I switch and stick with that until we get further along towards the 2010.Fall ( assuming these release issues

[osol-discuss] Non Fud official speaking

2010-04-14 Thread Paul Gress
I decided to read Oracles System News. There's a pretty good article that actually gives me a warm feeling about Opensolaris. The article is titled: Oracle's Hardware and Systems Support Policies Linked at: http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/146/1/hw/22995 Specifically: Article #22995

Re: [osol-discuss] Business use of OpenSolaris: enough to support commercial software?

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/20/10 09:26 AM, Ken Mays wrote: Mike, For business, commercial, and 'some' government projects - the answer is YES. Originally, I was working with someone to review Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 and CATIA on OpenSolaris. We starting porting over CAD/CAM/CAE and game development/rendering

Re: [osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community

2010-05-25 Thread Paul Gress
On 05/25/10 10:01 AM, Andrew Stormont wrote: Is Oracle really closing OpenSolaris? I didn't read that anywhere. My opinion, no. Opensolaris 2010.06 will be released soon. Then the development gate will open again. Paul ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] The Case of The Missing Drive

2010-06-02 Thread Paul Gress
On 06/ 2/10 07:13 PM, Andrew Greimann wrote: Hello, I've got an issue with a partition I cannot seem to access. I'm familiar how drives are mounted in Linux and mapped in Windows. For instance, /dev/sda5 underneath the Linux platform would describe my partition, D:\ under Windows would've

[osol-discuss] Planet Opensolaris

2010-06-04 Thread Paul Gress
Has anyone else noticed that the last blog was on May 27. I find it hard to believe no one has blogged since then, there has always been at least one new entry everyday. Not even Simon with his Webmink. Has it been frozen, or are we just in a long dry spell. Paul

Re: [osol-discuss] Planet Opensolaris

2010-06-04 Thread Paul Gress
On 06/ 4/10 11:16 AM, Paul Gress wrote: Has anyone else noticed that the last blog was on May 27. I find it hard to believe no one has blogged since then, there has always been at least one new entry everyday. Not even Simon with his Webmink. Has it been frozen, or are we just in a long dry

Re: [osol-discuss] Planet Opensolaris

2010-06-04 Thread Paul Gress
On 06/ 4/10 11:18 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Paul Gress wrote: Has anyone else noticed that the last blog was on May 27. I find it hard to believe no one has blogged since then, there has always been at least one new entry everyday. Not even Simon with his Webmink. Has it been frozen

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