Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi-151a8 JDS menus and launcher gone

2013-09-13 Thread Colin Ellis
If you create a new user and log in as the new user, does that user also have the problem? On Sep 13, 2013 5:39 PM, "Udo Grabowski (IMK)" wrote: > On 11/09/2013 06:59, Milan Jurik wrote: > >> On út, 2013-09-10 at 23:29 +0200, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: >> >>> Milan, >>> how did you exactly upgra

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] re-install grub [SOLVED]

2013-08-30 Thread Colin Ellis
I've done that! I wasted a bunch of time trying to figure out why my boot flags weren't being passed to a running kernel when I kept booting with a similar grub on a different disk... Glad you have it working. Colin On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:01 AM, wrote: > Hi Collin, > >> >> Is your bios de

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] re-install grub

2013-08-29 Thread Colin Ellis
Is your bios definitely set up to boot from that disk? It's possible that your linux grub is actually on the other drive. On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Axelle Apvrille wrote: > Hi Jim, > > >I don't think I've ever used installgrub -m flag... maybe it is what > >blocks you from installing to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Comments, please! problem with ffmpeg that seems to be a problem with OI at driver or basic library level

2013-05-15 Thread Colin Ellis
I'd suggest trying ffmpeg out with different encodings first to see if it's stream-specific. It might actually be libavcodec giving you the hang. I've seen endless loop bugs previously while transcoding audio. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Hans J. Albertsson < hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recreate /dev/null

2013-04-25 Thread Colin Ellis
Boot using a live cd, mount your original /dev and /devices somewhere and then copy from the live cd using rsync. On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Richard Jones < openindiana-disc...@jonze.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:30:35PM +0200, Jim Klimov wrote: > > How about removing both /devi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Future of OI

2012-12-17 Thread Colin Ellis
Hi lazaro, Maybe I can help you out with this. I can mail you a DVD from centroamerica if this is helpful. There aren't any restrictions from here so I would think that a dvd should get to you fine. Let me know if this will help you. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:16 PM, låzaro wrote: > Hi. Th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A

2011-10-11 Thread Colin Ellis
The only email to be successfully delivered by blackberry and it was an unfortunate trouser accident. Why oh why doesn't blackberry have auto key lock? On Oct 11, 2011 2:26 AM, "Dan Swartzendruber" wrote: > LOL > > -Original Message- > From: Gregory Youngblood [mailto:greg...@youngblood.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] PC Speaker Beep

2011-08-03 Thread Colin Ellis
Built In Speaker On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 12:45:21AM +0530, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > > Select Volume Control, Preferences, check the Keyboard Beep. > > There's no "Keyboard Beep" item that I can check. (There's Volume, Center, > LFE, et

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Colin Ellis
Hi, I run OI 148 + patches on a sony laptop with 4GB of RAM using gnome as a desktop. I can say for me I don't notice any desktop slowness. A couple of points: -My graphics card is reasonably well supported. -My laptop has plenty of ram - often an issue that can cause slowness as OI loves to ca

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mySQL

2011-03-29 Thread Colin Ellis
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:14 AM, wrote: > Well, it would be extra painful if they were running on an Oracle database > ;-) > > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Apostolos Syropoulos [mailto:asyropou...@yahoo.com] > Verzonden: maandag 28 maart 2011 21:18 > Aan: lista solaris; openindiana > O

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] reboot/shutdown commands (Was: Re: OI boot problem)

2011-03-28 Thread Colin Ellis
And fix those broken Oracle things like 'cmake'... On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Toomas Soome wrote: > > On 28.03.2011, at 18:51, Guido Berhoerster wrote: > > > > I don't see what's progressive about the BSD and Linux shutdown > > implementations, they just have different commandline options

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Explain the Goal of oi

2011-02-27 Thread Colin Ellis
the Illumos Foundation, a not-for profit legal entity within the United States. You can find more help in our FAQ in the wiki at: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Frequently+Asked+Questions/ Best Regards, Colin Ellis On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm getting a little confu