Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia GT430

2011-05-13 Thread Frank Middleton
On 04/14/11 20:26, ken mays wrote: Hello, Please remove the default video driver and use this for development and testing: ftp://download.nvidia.com/solaris/270.41.03/NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-270.41.03.run ~ Ken Mays Alas, https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5748 still happens only

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia GT430

2011-04-14 Thread Frank Middleton
On 04/12/11 22:30, Jeff Goldrich wrote: This graphics card is 'verified' to work on OI 148 but exactly how remains a mystery to me. My GTX 460 installs fine however my Galaxy GT 430 is not Which Nvidia driver version are you using? I found the GTX460 to be so unstable with the stock driver that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fw: [solarisx86] NVidia driver issue with GT220

2011-03-10 Thread Frank Middleton
On 03/09/11 16:38, I wrote: However not all the glitches are gone. That was because a pkg image update restored the old driver. Whoops. In case anyone else is trying to update to a newer Nvidia driver, there's a closed bug on d.o.othat is very helpful... https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fw: [solarisx86] NVidia driver issue with GT220

2011-03-09 Thread Frank Middleton
On 02/21/11 16:06, sy...@lavabit.com wrote: Posted on wiki. http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Graphics+Adapters It seems to have fixed some GT460 problems as well. Thanks for getting Nvidia's attention! However not all the glitches are gone. It rarely wakes successfully from /any/ screensaver st

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-21 Thread Frank Middleton
On 02/21/11 08:19, WK wrote: Yes, I noticed a lot of Asus boards support ECC, and I have started using Asus boards. No remote management capability on them, but for my application, I don't need it. Coincidentally I just built 2 machines, one using an ASUS M4A78T-E, the other with a Supermicro H

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Odd pkg problem

2011-02-20 Thread Frank Middleton
Trying to set up a new amd64 server for doing Illumos builds and ran into this... # pkg install developer/java/jdk Creating Plan /pkg: No matching version of developer/java/jdk can be installed: pkg://openindiana.org/developer/java/jdk@0.5.11,5.11-0.148:20101125T003225Z: This version is excluded

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

2011-02-15 Thread Frank Middleton
On 02/15/11 19:58, ken mays wrote: Ed, If you can't get it to work, there are reported issues with certain GT220 cards (bad hardware batches, like the Intel Sandy Bridge incident). Nvidia is aware of this issue. So, you can replace the GT220 card with the GT430 or GeForce 9600 GT to resolve yo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] XDMCP not working

2011-02-13 Thread Frank Middleton
On 02/13/11 00:37, Robin Axelsson wrote: Hello I want to open up an XDMCP Session with my OpenIndiana machine from a remote computer on a local network but it doesn't work. I can only run multiple-window programs via PuTTy (in Xming for windows) but when I want to establish a session, all I get i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General ZFS questions (Michelle Knight)

2011-01-13 Thread Frank Middleton
On 01/13/11 14:29, Michelle Knight wrote: Thanks, Some of those are blistering cards, but the ones I've found are internal only. I'm after two e-sata ports. How about using an eSATA bracket? Around $5 - $20 for two ports... Cheers ___ OpenIndiana-d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia Graphics Cards

2010-12-23 Thread Frank Middleton
On 12/22/10 17:42, ken mays wrote: The Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 works great with OI_148 and the Nvidia 260.19.29 video drivers. It sure does, spectacularly well in Twinview mode. although it was necessary to apply the workaround for: Bug ID 6798452 Synopsis: X Server will not start on x86 syst

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] livecd zpool import -fR /a xpool but no files

2010-11-29 Thread Frank Middleton
On 11/29/10 10:48, Calum Mackay wrote: On 29/11/10 15:34, Frank Middleton wrote: Just a guess, but shouldn't the mountpoint first be set back to "/" zfs umount newrpool/ROOT/openindiana zfs set mountpoint=/ newrpool/ROOT/openindiana zpool export newrpool I did not find that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] livecd zpool import -fR /a xpool but no files

2010-11-29 Thread Frank Middleton
On 11/27/10 17:14, Calum Mackay wrote: zpool import -f -R /a rpool newrpool zfs set mountpoint=/b newrpool/ROOT/openindiana zfs mount newrpool/ROOT/openindiana ... On 11/29/10 02:57, Harry Putnam wrote: but on reboot I just get a grub prompt. Just a guess, but shouldn't the mountpoint fir

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 Express available

2010-11-17 Thread Frank Middleton
On 11/16/10 20:08, Tom Kranz wrote: SX11 has a newer version of ZFS. When you install OpenIndiana over the top, it refuses to recognize the disk layout, and wants to either repartition it or blow it all away. If you start with snv134b as the base, you can obviously update to Solaris Express, b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 Express available

2010-11-16 Thread Frank Middleton
On 11/16/10 18:18, Tom Kranz wrote: Why? What's wrong with ZFS snapshots and rolling back to a different BE? As long as you're not upgrading your ZFS pools or messing around with them (and ZFS encryption is the only pressing thing for me that would force that) then I don't see why any of this wo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 Express available

2010-11-16 Thread Frank Middleton
On 11/16/10 13:15, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: What we need to concentrate on is finding new contributors to the OpenIndiana project. One wonders how large the pool of SPARC users is and, once Illumos compiles for SPARC, how many of them might be willing and/or able to contribute to OI (as opposed

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I figured this deserved a separate thread

2010-11-04 Thread Frank Middleton
On 11/04/10 17:42, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: Speak for yourself -- the only times I have to reboot are for kernel upgrades. Those don't happen too often (save for recently, with some issues needing patches) -- I regularly have machines with six-month and better uptimes. Well, it could be hardwar

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I figured this deserved a separate thread

2010-11-04 Thread Frank Middleton
On 11/04/10 12:04, Rthoreau wrote: You could probably make a list of features that were only in OpenSolaris and now in OpenIndiana that people must have. On any list at one time it would of been ZFS and for some it still has a big place in the community. Wouldn't robustness count? Solaris, on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Stable 134+ downlaod?

2010-10-25 Thread Frank Middleton
On 10/19/10 19:07, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: Hi All, Once the 134+ ONNV (kernel+core userland) is built, we'll make it available as an upgrade to OpenSolaris snv_134. Hopefully this week, if not then next week. It's understood that SPARC is lower priority and IIRC there's been very little discus