On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:42:14 +0100 Jakob Oestergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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? I think it is the only option, besides the -ar hack. One downside is in the SRSS for Solaris release notes: it doesn't work well with the CDE desktop environment (i.e., I have no autorepeat at all under CDE). > > > 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. 64 bit kernel/32 bit userspace: the Debian guys have realized for some months that this is useful and support it. Before this, I downloaded the 64 bit kernel .deb file "by hand" and installed it via "dpkg --force-architecture". I think this should work in Ubuntu, too. You will need some small hacks to compile the SRSS modules. > 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. I never tried this since I think you will lose USB- and audio-support (and mobile sessions?) this way. A "sun ray connector for unix" would be great! > > 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. I made quite similar experiences with Solaris+Gnome/KDE. When you come from Debian, blastwave/sunfreeware is really, umm, let's say, surprising. Opensolaris sounds much better in this respect. It seems they try hard to integrate up-to-date open source software. But I hear suspiciously little about Opensolaris+SRSS. Since, e.g., SRSS for Solaris uses dtlogin instead of gdm and dtlogin is not part of Opensolaris, I expect there are some rough edges. I also do not know if there is already a continuous update procedure in opensolaris or if I have to reinstall everything from scratch every few months. So I never tried it. Can anyone share his Opensolaris+SRSS experience on this list? This would be great! Regards, Meik -- Meik Hellmund Mathematisches Institut, Uni Leipzig e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.uni-leipzig.de/~hellmund _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
