Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-03 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
Hi Till, me to, adding to the wish list: cuda support /Rolf Quoting Ignacio Soriano Hernandez via openindiana-discuss : Hi Till, Looks like beating a dead horse but here we go: - Accelerated gfx support for mobile (Laptop) devices (NVIDIA/AMD) - Power management - Updated WiFi drive

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-03 Thread Stephan Althaus
On 2/3/25 18:42, Rolf M. Dietze wrote: We are mostly running xfce, twm  and alike, no gnome or mate, they are too slow and unhandy to our users. Hi! i now use windowmaker within my vnc sessions to my oi box when i need to, i miss xrdp a bit because for the lack of sound with vnc.. Integrated

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-03 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 05:29:51PM +0100, Till Wegmüller wrote: > In a first step to address those I would also like to collect Feedback from > the community on those Painpoints and collect other Reasons OpenIndiana does > not work as a main driver even if you want to use it. I can tell you what

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-03 Thread Goetz T. Fischer via openindiana-discuss
and not to forget librewolf, which has been in the repo for some time now :-) and for even more variety there're the independent palemoon builds for solaris and illumos: ftp://ftp.palemoon.org/sunos/ On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 19:41:19 +0100, Till Wegmueller wrote: > For this specifically I would like t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-03 Thread Till Wegmueller
For this specifically I would like to thank Geoff Weiss for keeping it up to date. He has made sure we have the best Firefox experience possible for quite some time. -Till On 03.02.25 18:42, Rolf M. Dietze wrote: Hi, this thread is actually very welcome to me. I had 2 issues that refrained m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-03 Thread Till Wegmueller
The nvidia thing is an interesting mention I wonder how much libglvnd will improve that situation with versions. It helps a lot with different vendors and would replace ogl-select -Till On 03.02.25 18:53, Udo Grabowski (IMKASF) wrote: On 03-02-2025 18:42, Rolf M. Dietze wrote: Hi, this thr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-03 Thread Till Wegmueller
I Know :) But good to hear it nonetheless. Gfx is being worked on. Some more fixes to the kernel driver/libdrm interaction then it should be ready for testing. -Till On 03.02.25 19:07, Ignacio Soriano Hernandez wrote: Hi Till, Looks like beating a dead horse but here we go: - Accelerated gf

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-03 Thread Till Wegmueller
Hi Rolf, Can you go into details on how SRM/projects is an issue for you? This is the first time I hear it mentioned. Would love to hear how more and how you would like to use it. -Till On 03.02.25 18:42, Rolf M. Dietze wrote: Hi, this thread is actually very welcome to me. I had 2 issues

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-03 Thread Ignacio Soriano Hernandez via openindiana-discuss
Hi Till, Looks like beating a dead horse but here we go: - Accelerated gfx support for mobile (Laptop) devices (NVIDIA/AMD) - Power management - Updated WiFi drivers - GNOME 3 desktop Cheers Iggi > Am 03.02.2025 um 17:29 schrieb Till Wegmüller : > > Hello all > > During FOSDEM I had a talk

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-03 Thread Marcel Telka
On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 06:53:22PM +0100, Udo Grabowski (IMKASF) wrote: > with older gear as firefox is now a memory hog). For the NVIDIA cards, > there's a palette of old and new drivers that should cover all existing > cards: > > driver/graphics/nvidia-340 340.108-2022.0.0.1 > driver/graphic

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-03 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMKASF)
On 03-02-2025 18:42, Rolf M. Dietze wrote: Hi, this thread is actually very welcome to me. I had 2 issues that refrained me from using OI as a regular desktop system, that was the rather old firefox, but as far as I know, Carsten Grzemba made this problem vanish, thanks for that, it was a key

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-03 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
Hi, this thread is actually very welcome to me. I had 2 issues that refrained me from using OI as a regular desktop system, that was the rather old firefox, but as far as I know, Carsten Grzemba made this problem vanish, thanks for that, it was a key issue. And a lot of driver problems with older

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-03 Thread Till Wegmüller
A quick follow up. Please include Bugtracker references if you have them. And if you don't please have a quick search if one exists, that would help us reduce the bug trackers backlog. https://www.illumos.org/projects/openindiana/issues?set_filter=1 On 03.02.25 17:29, Till Wegmüller wrote: He

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-03 Thread Till Wegmüller
Hello all During FOSDEM I had a talk with a couple people about Desktop Painpoints and how they would like to use OpenIndiana as their daily driver but a couple of things are just not working or toomuch effort. In a first step to address those I would also like to collect Feedback from the c