Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] local ips packages

2011-02-10 Thread Thorsten Heit
Hi, > The package files should be contained under /var/pkg/download as long as > the pkg property "flush-content-cache-on-success" isn't set to "false"; > see "pkg property". s/"false"/"true" mea culpa... :-) Thorsten ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mail

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] local ips packages

2011-02-10 Thread Thorsten Heit
Hi, > I ahve just set up my netbook withoi148. All good but have downloaded > and installed a lot of packages from various IPS repos. > > Now I am setting up my desktop and would like the same packages. Using > the package manager export function does make life a little easier but > the packages

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread ken mays
Ken G, Quadro NVS 290 is a bit cheaper which is near the price point of the GeForce GT 430 - but NVS 295 is nice as well as suggesed. I've updated the HCL based on low cost server cards. Ken Mays --- On Thu, 2/10/11, Ken Gunderson wrote: > From: Ken Gunderson > Subject: Re: [OpenIndia

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 05:55 -0800, ken mays wrote: > To Ken Gunderson, > > The Quadro 600 works fine. > > If you want a basic low-cost graphics card, you can use the GeForce GT 430 or > NVIDIA 9600 GT which is available in most stores today for about $50-$80 USD. > I suggest the Nvidia 9600 GT

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [power management] S3 suspend failure on resume.

2011-02-10 Thread C C
As a follow up to my own message I did some more testing; I thought posting the results might spur some ideas: I set up a serial console and using a test I found on the old opensolaris mailing list  /usr/sbin/pmconfig  /usr/sbin/modload -p misc/cpr   (     echo 'cpr_debug/W 3;'     echo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 09:00 -0800, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On 02/09/11 21:52, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > I need a new graphics card for an older system (PCIE-1.0). I don't game, > > do graphics, rendering, etc. so don't need high end - just a good > > workstation unit that supports OpenGL, good col

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Pkgbuild with IPS and SVR4 packages

2011-02-10 Thread Gary Mills
I now have a spec file for the ISC DHCP server that permits me to build an IPS package under Solaris 11 x86 or SVR4 packages under Solaris 10 SPARC and x86. I'm quite impressed with `pkgbuild'. This effort has raised a few questions in my mind. First of all, I discovered that I can't build a Sola

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding current runlevel?

2011-02-10 Thread Deano
Can confirm on OI148, Sun version returns the correct result, gnu doesn't. Bye, Deano de...@cloudpixies.com -Original Message- From: Jesus Cea [mailto:j...@jcea.es] Sent: 10 February 2011 17:39 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding current runleve

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding current runlevel?

2011-02-10 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> This seems to be a "bug" in GNU "who" implementation. > > Running this in Solaris 10, I get: > > """ > [root@stargate-host /]# /usr/bin/who -r (NATIVE SUN VERSION) > . run-level 3 Jan 18 20:33 3 0 S > > [root@stargate-host /]# /usr/local/bin/who -r (GNU VERSION) > run-level Jan 18 20:33 > """

[OpenIndiana-discuss] local ips packages

2011-02-10 Thread hairryharry
Hi, I ahve just set up my netbook withoi148. All good but have downloaded and installed a lot of packages from various IPS repos. Now I am setting up my desktop and would like the same packages. Using the package manager export function does make life a little easier but the packages still need

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding current runlevel?

2011-02-10 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/11 15:35, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: >> Trying who -r on openindiana 147/148 seems to fail. I have tested this >> on three machines plus a VM so far, all on 148, but one was rebooted >> to an old BE with 147 just to see if there were any diff

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 02/09/11 21:52, Ken Gunderson wrote: I need a new graphics card for an older system (PCIE-1.0). I don't game, do graphics, rendering, etc. so don't need high end - just a good workstation unit that supports OpenGL, good color accuracy, and draws square squares :) Occasional DVD's are probably

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread Guy Woolley
Thanks very much for the information Cheers Guy On 02/10/11 01:55 PM, ken mays wrote: To Ken Gunderson, The Quadro 600 works fine. If you want a basic low-cost graphics card, you can use the GeForce GT 430 or NVIDIA 9600 GT which is available in most stores today for about $50-$80 USD. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread ken mays
--- On Thu, 2/10/11, Ken Gunderson wrote: > From: Ken Gunderson > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" > Date: Thursday, February 10, 2011, 9:15 AM > > On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 05:55 -0800, ken mays wrote: > > To Ken Gunde

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding current runlevel?

2011-02-10 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- Original Message - > Hi all > > Trying who -r on openindiana 147/148 seems to fail. I have tested this > on three machines plus a VM so far, all on 148, but one was rebooted > to an old BE with 147 just to see if there were any differences, which > there wasn't. The output I get is >

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding current runlevel?

2011-02-10 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all Trying who -r on openindiana 147/148 seems to fail. I have tested this on three machines plus a VM so far, all on 148, but one was rebooted to an old BE with 147 just to see if there were any differences, which there wasn't. The output I get is . run-level 3 Feb 10 13:36 3

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 05:55 -0800, ken mays wrote: > To Ken Gunderson, > > The Quadro 600 works fine. Thanks, Ken. How's the noise on that unit in a quiet room/office environment? In my experience larger diameter fans running at lower rpm's are preferable to smaller units spinning fast. nVidia

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread ken mays
To Ken Gunderson, The Quadro 600 works fine. If you want a basic low-cost graphics card, you can use the GeForce GT 430 or NVIDIA 9600 GT which is available in most stores today for about $50-$80 USD. I suggest the Nvidia 9600 GT if you're a casual 3D user (i.e. gaming or otherwise), or the GT

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread Guy Woolley
I believe Illumos do know about it, see https://www.illumos.org/issues/367 and Albert Lee pointed out to me the defect.solaris bug report (#15751) last October when I hit the problem. Guy On 02/10/11 11:47 AM, Deano wrote: OI will be using the illumos kernel soon, so we don't necessary r

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The Illumos pkgsrc project

2011-02-10 Thread Mads Worsøe Duun
I have updated the project page, released a new version of the script, and made a forum. It can all be found at http://www.illumos.org/projects/worsoe. The Illumos Pkgsrc Project Mads Worsøe Duun ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread Deano
OI will be using the illumos kernel soon, so we don't necessary rely on Oracle fixing the kernel bug. If illumos know about it, we can look at fixing it. OI + illumos != Solaris 11 :D Bye, Deano -Original Message- From: Guy Woolley [mailto:guy.wool...@btinternet.com] Sent: 10 February 2

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread Thorsten Heit
Hi, > I need a new graphics card for an older system (PCIE-1.0). I don't game, > do graphics, rendering, etc. so don't need high end - just a good > workstation unit that supports OpenGL, good color accuracy, and draws > square squares :) Occasional DVD's are probably about the most GPU > intensi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread Guy Woolley
According to the defect.solaris report it's a bug in the solaris 11 kernel so it's up to Oracle/Nvidia - don't hold your breath Guy On 02/10/11 11:11 AM, Deano wrote: Any known issues, please add it into the HCL and also bug it. Somebody might be able to look at it at some point, and get it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread Deano
Any known issues, please add it into the HCL and also bug it. Somebody might be able to look at it at some point, and get it fixed, which is good for everyone. Thanks, Deano de...@cloudpixies.com -Original Message- From: Guy Woolley [mailto:guy.wool...@btinternet.com] Sent: 10 February

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread Guy Woolley
Yes - it's too bad; actually the GEForce 220 worked fine when I tried Solaris 10 but I just couldn't get the internet to work with the rge0 driver (which is OK with OSOL, OI) in my machine . It's pretty obvious that hardware for consumer PCs is very strongly directed at Windows (why wouldn't

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread Edward Martinez
On 02/10/11 00:57, Guy Woolley wrote: Ken, Have you seen this bug report ? https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=15751 I haven't tried the 256.44 driver but my GEForce 220 certainly hasn't worked on OI (or earlier Opensolaris) with earlier Nvidia drivers for it - John Mart

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] info about Solaris and the new 4K-Sector-Disks (e.g. WDxxEARS)

2011-02-10 Thread Piotr Jasiukajtis
That PSARC is already included into OpenIndiana: changeset: 9889:68d0fe4c716e user:yu, larry liu - Sun Microsystems - Beijing China date:Wed Jun 17 19:20:05 2009 +0800 summary: PSARC 2008/769 Multiple disk sector size support. I guess the issue here is little misunderstood

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread Guy Woolley
Ken, Have you seen this bug report ? https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=15751 I haven't tried the 256.44 driver but my GEForce 220 certainly hasn't worked on OI (or earlier Opensolaris) with earlier Nvidia drivers for it - John Martin's Comments seem to suggest that nei