I build my own KDE packages (just recently built 3.5.9) for our site. I also build packages for Fluxbox, Fvwm, Xfce, and e16. Getting arts (KDE) to work (i.e. actually output sound) is a bit tricky if compiled with gcc, though, not sure if I'm the only one that's experienced that.
William ----- Original Message ----- From: Jakob Oestergaard To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 1:42 PM Subject: [SunRay-Users] SRSS on Solaris x86 (moved from Linux) Dear list, I have a question and a story. First things first: On Solaris 10 x86 using Xsun with SRSS, how do I adjust the keyboard repeat rate and the intial delay? I'd like 250ms initial delay and 40 chars/sec or so. I've only been able to find references to accessx which can slow the keyboard down even further, kbd which can adjust the console keyboard and the -ar1 and -ar2 Xsun server options which would then be server-global if I hacked them into the global X server setup. Is the only option to enable XKB? If I do that, are there any downsides? Now, to the story: I've run SRSS on 32-bit Kubuntu for a long time. Moving to bigger iron, I really wanted a 64-bit kernel. Since I don't want to mess with home-rolled kernels (been there done that) and since no Linux distro seems to have realized that a 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit userspace is very very useable, I needed to install 64-bit userspace. After spending *much* too much time on that, I ended up giving up when I realized the 32-bit PAM modules from SRSS wouldn't work with the 64-bit PAM in the distro. Next option was to run my 64-bit Kubuntu system with a KVM with a 32-bit OpenSuSE inside. Then, running SRSS on the guest system (which was even almost a supported platform!), making it do XDMCP to the host system. This turned out to be infeasible as well; there were many many keyboard mapping issues with OpenSUSE and SRSS, and the XDMCP part just never worked right - gdm cannot do what it needs to do, in order to do this cleanly, or I was unable to find out how. Either way, I ended up scrapping those ideas and simply installing a plain Solaris 10 x86 and a SRSS on top. What a great experience! This is by far the smoothest SRSS install I've ever been through, and I've been through a few - I guess I should have guessed that, since it's the first install on a supported OS ;) This was very smooth; I'd definitely recommend SRSS on Solaris over Linux for this reason. But read on... Getting SRSS running was one thing. Getting a KDE desktop turned out to be quite another. Sun ships KDE 3.4.3 which is *ancient* (and even without anti-aliased fonts!), JDS which is, well, not quite what we want (let's keep it at that) and CDE. Blastwave has no updated KDE, neither has SunFreeware.com I was absolutely shocked that there was no updated KDE available for Solaris. Does everyone really run JDS or uttsc? I spent a few days getting KDE 3.5.9 compiled, but now it's up and running. Would there be any interest in KDE packages for Solaris x86? I guess I could put some together, if need be. What does everyone else do? -- / jakob _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
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