[OpenIndiana-discuss] http protocol error

2018-03-25 Thread Gary Mills
fully updated: http protocol error: Unknown error code: 404 reason: Not Found URL: 'http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/openindiana.org/catalog/1/catalog.attrs' (happened 4 times) -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, M

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] http protocol error

2018-03-26 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 09:28:18AM +0200, Till Wegmüller wrote: > > Problems with Hipsters IPS repo. Serverside. Thanks. It works today. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Does anyone else have Emacs issue?

2018-04-25 Thread Gary Mills
th the middle mouse button, if that matters. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD Rysen 3

2018-06-20 Thread Gary Mills
he GUI started > with no problem. However, I still see the "ERROR: failed to > attach AMD IOMMU" message after the SunOS message. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailin

[OpenIndiana-discuss] No audio on Ryzen system

2018-07-06 Thread Gary Mills
ot root 9 Sep 20 2017 /dev/sound/1 -> audiohd:1 The second one corresponds to the HD Audio Controller audio device. What's the best way to get sound working on this system? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipe

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Procedure for enabling Sun keys

2018-07-08 Thread Gary Mills
o keys did what they used to do before I replaced the Solaris 11.3 system. You could set up shortcuts for more of those keys, of course. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No audio on Ryzen system

2018-07-11 Thread Gary Mills
be hardware devices. The third appears to be software. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No audio on Ryzen system

2018-07-13 Thread Gary Mills
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 08:53:46PM -0500, Gary Mills wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 06:17:14PM +0200, Aurélien Larcher wrote: > > Probably fix the Pulseaudio OSS backend or merge Alexander's PR to > > default libmatemixer to OSS. > > The HDMI device, instance zero,

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Keyboard stall in MATE-terminal

2018-08-01 Thread Gary Mills
happy to file a bug report, but first I'd like to be sure that it's happening to other people as well as to me. I'm running a version of oi-hipster that was current on 01 July 2018. I'm using the en_US.UTF-8 locale. -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No audio on Ryzen system

2018-08-13 Thread Gary Mills
On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 06:17:14PM +0200, Aurélien Larcher wrote: > Probably fix the Pulseaudio OSS backend or merge Alexander's PR to > default libmatemixer to OSS. I chose to fix pulseaudio. See Bug #9732 for details. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipe

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Formats for rhythmbox internet radio?

2018-10-10 Thread Gary Mills
etary codec for those. Can I obtain this someplace? If it matters, I'm using the pulseaudio sound system. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formats for rhythmbox internet radio?

2018-10-10 Thread Gary Mills
ythmbox to use some other stream format? I see lots of gstreamer packages there. Which ones should I install? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hipster serial console via IPMI

2018-10-25 Thread Gary Mills
tyb for I/O on the hardware serial ports. Putting the console on ttyc might solve your problems. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to set the domain name?

2018-12-07 Thread Gary Mills
e space). That's the NIS domain name. Unless the system is a NIS client, you don't need it. You can either use a fully-qualified host name, which is now recommended, or you can set the DNS domain name in /etc/resolv.conf . The latter you may need to do indirectly by configuring the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to restore a file in a snapshot?

2019-01-04 Thread Gary Mills
just destroy the snapshots? Should I destroy the BEs? What should I do? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindian

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Zpool replacing forever

2019-01-20 Thread Gary Mills
s are either in old snapshots or old BEs. I can destroy them, if that will help. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zpool replacing forever

2019-01-20 Thread Gary Mills
ow: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM rpool ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0ONLINE 0 0 0 c5t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c5t1d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun Rays might just be back on modern OI

2019-02-03 Thread Gary Mills
login server. There's more that can be specified, but this is the minimum. The ISC configuration for Sun Ray terminals is all documented in Sun documents, now presumably Oracle Solaris documents. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___

[OpenIndiana-discuss] No GUI after upgrade yesterday

2019-03-02 Thread Gary Mills
oader, and ran the old BE. Now I have another problem. I had an entry in the GRUB menu to boot the Windows FDKISK partion, but this too has disappeared. How do I boot the Windows partition now? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manito

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No GUI after upgrade yesterday

2019-03-03 Thread Gary Mills
On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 08:49:06PM -0600, Tim Mooney wrote: > In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No GUI after upgrade yesterday, Gary...: > > > I have a laptop, an ASUS Eee PC 1005PE, that now has 2 gigs of memory. > > The memory upgrade allowed me to do a package upgrade fro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No GUI after upgrade yesterday

2019-03-04 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 10:17:46AM +0100, Till Wegmüller wrote: > > On 04.03.19 03:05, Gary Mills wrote: > > > > Yes, that's my problem now. I know I can make the partition bootable, > > but I'd prefer to chain-load it somehow. It used to work with GRUB. &g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No GUI after upgrade yesterday

2019-03-05 Thread Gary Mills
he laptop. It came back with a normal MATE desktop. Both of my problems are solved now. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Audio Hardware Detection

2019-03-31 Thread Gary Mills
low, but not to zero, try `tput bel' in a terminal window. If you even hear a faint beep, it is working. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Audio Hardware Detection

2019-04-01 Thread Gary Mills
erged and become quite different. The upshot is that Linux OSS is not compatible with illumos OSS. The way to select the audio device is to set AUDIODEV in your environment. For example, I have this in my .profile file: AUDIODEV=/dev/sound/1 The name is also exported in that file. Thi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Audio Hardware Detection

2019-04-01 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 08:46:23AM -0500, Gary Mills wrote: > > I didn't do any switching, at least not intentionally. I didn't know > that you had switched. When was this? The problem with mod_oss is > that it's only suitable for Linux. I understand that Linux OSS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Audio Hardware Detection

2019-04-02 Thread Gary Mills
t the second one is. I'll check later on another similar system that does not have AUDIODEV set in the environment. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Audio Hardware Detection

2019-04-02 Thread Gary Mills
at behavior will be because the audiohd driver currently skips HDMI audio devices. The driver is being modified to enumerate HDMI audio devices instead. The audio situation on OI will likely get worse when that new driver is incorporated. -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Alternate web browsers?

2019-04-05 Thread Gary Mills
lumos is memory-based and quite small. /var/tmp is disk-based and much larger. There's probably a configuration setting that controls where temporary files are kept. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 60 ESR available

2019-04-28 Thread Gary Mills
ut it didn't work. Apparently the H.264 codec is required for this stream. The Firefox plugin for this codec was built by Cisco and made available for free for several operating systems, but not for illumos or Solaris. Perhaps we can convince Cisco to build one for us? -- -Gary Mills-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Confluence security incident

2019-05-11 Thread Gary Mills
orks with OI. The wiki seemed to work well for those purposes. Any facility that accepts contributions from everybody is going to require a certain amount of management. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dual boot OI-hipster /windows 7

2019-06-18 Thread Gary Mills
cts the Windows boot disk to be the active partition. You will need to make it active for Windows updates to succeed. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Survey: What nvidia card you use?

2019-10-02 Thread Gary Mills
On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 09:16:31PM +0200, Michal Nowak wrote: > > which nvidia graphics card type you use with OpenIndiana? How do I collect this information? I have six computers running OI, but I can't recall the name of the log that contains this information. --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Survey: What nvidia card you use?

2019-10-02 Thread Gary Mills
On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 03:24:15PM -0500, Gary Mills wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 09:16:31PM +0200, Michal Nowak wrote: > > > > which nvidia graphics card type you use with OpenIndiana? > > How do I collect this information? I have six computers running OI, > but I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A boot sector question

2019-11-05 Thread Gary Mills
only have one active partition. Making the Windows boot partition the active one will make all the others inactive. You will find that you have to do this to install Windows patches too. -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI SPARC ISO and repository available for download

2019-11-10 Thread Gary Mills
by default. Select another disk, if this is not what you want. It will install OI SPARC on that disk, and change the OBP variable boot-device to boot that disk. If that is not what you want, change it before rebooting. Please also let me know if the install succeeds for you. -- -

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to use the OI SPARC repository

2019-11-11 Thread Gary Mills
ow this all goes, and what packages might be missing. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-16 Thread Gary Mills
n to introduce them with no harm to x86 packages built from the same source. Indeed, some of the changes fix bugs in the corresponding x86 packages. Also keep in mind that IPS is designed to handle multiple architectures, making it easy to integrate SPARC with x86. In fact, this is already

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Peculiar error from gconf

2020-03-22 Thread Gary Mills
missing or misconfigured D Bus ses... How do I eliminate this error, or should I just ignore it? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Peculiar error from gconf

2020-03-24 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 06:40:51AM +, Alexander Pyhalov via openindiana-discuss wrote: > Sorry for breakage. Should be fixed when > https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/5638 lands to pkg > repository (should happen in about an hour). Yes, that change has fixed it.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Has anyone used the GeForce GT 710 video card with OI?

2020-03-31 Thread Gary Mills
is one a good choice? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Black screen on AMD Ryzen with OI

2020-04-06 Thread Gary Mills
page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LightDM#LightDM_does_not_appear_or_monitor_only_displays_TTY_output gives a potential solution. I haven't tried it yet. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, C

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Black screen on AMD Ryzen with OI

2020-04-07 Thread Gary Mills
one. I wondered if it was an illusion. Have you found anything that eliminates the problem? Everything I have tried has failed. It's quite discouraging. I have three systems that use AMD Ryzen CPUs. I don't dare upgrade OI on these systems in case they will no longer boot.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Black screen on AMD Ryzen with OI

2020-04-08 Thread Gary Mills
On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 09:38:04AM +, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > Gary Mills > >Have you found anything that eliminates the problem?  Everything I > >have tried has failed.  It's quite discouraging.  I have three systems > >that use AMD Ryzen CPUs.  I don't d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Black screen on AMD Ryzen with OI

2020-04-12 Thread Gary Mills
f course. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Thunderbird Gmail on OI?

2020-04-21 Thread Gary Mills
2768) Err#11 EAGAIN [...] What's on file descriptor 4? pfiles will tell you, but you know that. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Concerning replacing mirrored boot disks

2020-05-24 Thread Gary Mills
safe and fairly easy, but I haven't done that for a while. Most of the work was done by: beadm create ... -p ... -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Error updating from hipster-202000504

2020-06-06 Thread Gary Mills
: http protocol error: Unknown error code: 503 reason: Service Unavailable URL: 'http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/openindiana.org/manifest/0/runtime%2Fperl-522@5.22.4%2C5.11-2020.0.1.2%3A20200512T191345Z' What might be the cause. -- -Gary Mills-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Error updating from hipster-202000504

2020-06-07 Thread Gary Mills
On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 07:37:02PM +0200, Aurélien Larcher wrote: > Usually this happens when the repository is being refreshed or rebuilt. I retried the upgrade this morning. It was successful, with no errors. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Can

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What's the easiest, straight-shot way to upgrade to a new boot SSD?

2020-06-19 Thread Gary Mills
> I was thinking of using Clonezilla, but I'm not sure if that's the way to > go here. I'd recommend using native illumos commands instead. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ open

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate constrains window size

2020-08-03 Thread Gary Mills
conclude that the mate window manager is constraining the window size. Is there some way I can tell the window manager to set the default size the way I want it? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ op

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate constrains window size

2020-08-04 Thread Gary Mills
behavior is caused by something left over from the Gnome desktop. Where should I look? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate constrains window size

2020-08-05 Thread Gary Mills
tual frame: > (set-frame-width (selected-frame) 80) > (set-frame-height (selected-frame) 30) > and press C-x C-e (for each line). That works too. In fact, by making them 81 and 37, I can enlarge the screen to 80x36 like I want it. When I put those two lines in my .emacs file, nothin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate constrains window size

2020-08-06 Thread Gary Mills
ow size. It's the smaller font that allows the width to increase to 79. When I press the Maximize Window button in the title bar, the geometry does increase in both dimensions. Maybe this is how Mate is supposed to work. > If it works you can add your other settings peu à peu.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] System unstable after pkg update Aug 6 and 8

2020-08-10 Thread Gary Mills
t hipster-20200705-02 Unmounted successfully root@openindiana:/# zpool export rpool root@openindiana:/# zpool list no pools available root@openindiana:/# : init 5 -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Xerox B215 printer with CUPS

2020-08-27 Thread Gary Mills
but I'd like to know what it will do with this file. Will CUPS copy this file from anywhere, even from a temporary location? Have you done this? Did the PPD file improve the printing? Are you actually using this printer model? What PDL method does CUPS use for this printer? -- -Gary Mills

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xerox B215 printer with CUPS

2020-08-31 Thread Gary Mills
r you. Not too late. I haven't tried that PPD file yet. I've been working on something else, and also trying to limit my time sitting in front of my computer screens. So far, I'm only collecting suggestions about my new printer. Your suggestion is valuable. -- -Gary Mills-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xerox B215 printer with CUPS

2020-09-28 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 02:27:03PM -0500, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote: > In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xerox B215 printer with CUPS, Gary...: > > > I do have a PPD file, Xerox_B215_Series.ppd, that I downloaded from > > the Xerox site. The file does say t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xerox B215 printer with CUPS

2020-09-30 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 08:56:27PM -0500, Gary Mills wrote: > > Does anyone have a ppd file for this printer that works on OI? I found one. It was on the CD that comes with the printer, in the PS directory. The name is xpb215.ppd . It's clearly Postscript, but that's fine. CU

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xerox B215 printer with CUPS

2020-09-30 Thread Gary Mills
ince we alread have CUPS on OI. I did find a ppd file that works nicely with CUPS on OI. It was on the CD that came with the printer. It was called xpb215.ppd . -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from Firefox does not work

2020-10-14 Thread Gary Mills
ly gives me one option: print to file. How do I get Firefox to give me another option for printing to the `xerox' queue? I only have the one printer. Do I need to share this printer in CUPS? Is that it? Something else? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnip

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from Firefox does not work

2020-10-14 Thread Gary Mills
-commands0.5.11-2020.0.1.20084i-- print/psutils 1.17-2020.0.1.2 i-- print/qpdf6.0.0-2020.0.1.0 i-- x11/keyboard/xkbprint 1.0.5-2020.0.1.0 i-- Have I omitted a package?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from Firefox does not work

2020-10-14 Thread Gary Mills
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 08:09:03PM +0200, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: > I have configured cups for my network printer and that one is available > in firefox. Thanks. I now understand that it's possible. I only need to know what I have to do to make it work for me. --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from Firefox does not work

2020-10-15 Thread Gary Mills
hould be installed with GTK or CUPS, probably with CUPS. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from Firefox does not work

2020-10-15 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:35:37AM -0400, John D Groenveld wrote: > In message <20201015140917.ga18...@imap.fastmail.com>, Gary Mills writes: > >library/desktop/gtk2/gtk-backend-cups > >library/desktop/gtk3/gtk-backend-cups > > > >were not installed. These

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from Firefox does not work

2020-10-15 Thread Gary Mills
If you have done the install some time ago, `pkg update' will not observe changes to mate_install . The only solution is to make mate_install something that can be installed permanently. At the very least, the gtk-backend-cups dependancies should be attached to real packages. -- -Gary Mills-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Qt5 and libgcc_s

2020-10-19 Thread Gary Mills
ocessing errors. No output written to LANShare > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [Makefile:303: LANShare] Error 1 It sounds as if the application requires gcc-6, but you tried to build it with gcc-7. Can you try gcc-6 instead? -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xorg missing privileges

2020-10-23 Thread Gary Mills
;{printf("%s\n", $12)}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn > 75750 "sys_devices" > 173 "file_dac_search" > 4 "proc_owner" > 2 "file_dac_read" > > What has to be added to /etc/security/exec_attr.d/SOME_FILE to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Security alert: important fix for illumos-gate has been integrated

2020-10-26 Thread Gary Mills
m an older update, done on 2020-07-05. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI new user questions

2020-12-07 Thread Gary Mills
t Windows and an illumos distribution to run simultaneously, you will have to use some form of virtualization. That's the only way. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mai

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI new user questions - 2

2020-12-10 Thread Gary Mills
le. What graphics adapter are you using? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI new user questions - 2

2020-12-10 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:56:42PM +, Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss wrote: > Gary Mills,How far the boot process goes? Well, I booted into BIOS > and it boots until X11, which will not start. At that point, it is actually running a version of OI, coming from the USB image. >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI new user questions - 2

2020-12-13 Thread Gary Mills
in the keyboard device in my case. I wonder if the hal service has failed in your case. Here's how it looks to me: jack@openindiana:/jack$ svcs -l svc:/system/hal:default fmri svc:/system/hal:default name Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon enabled true stateonline next_

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI new user questions - 2

2020-12-14 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 04:20:49PM +, Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss wrote: > > @Gary Mills, > the "hal service" has started and runs fine. I get the same output as you. Okay, hal is running. That is good to know. > However, there are several posts from Linux

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Determine path to usb stick frm `rmformt -l' output

2020-12-18 Thread Gary Mills
ed # mount | grep media # dd if=Downloads/OI-hipster-gui-20201031.usb of=/dev/dsk/c7t0d0p0 bs=4194304 489+1 records in 489+1 records out 2052153856 bytes transferred in 404.551998 secs (4.84MB/sec) # mount | grep media /* Remove the USB stick */ -- -G

[OpenIndiana-discuss] New SPARC ISO for testing

2021-01-07 Thread Gary Mills
l, I will be uploading a newer matching repository. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Microphone and pulseaudio

2021-01-12 Thread Gary Mills
> $ cat /tmp/foo.au >>/dev/audio Pulseaudio is not involved here, since you are accessing raw devices. You could use the audioplay command to replace the second command. I'd expect the same result, but it's worth trying. The volume on illumos-based systems is always quit

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Microphone and pulseaudio

2021-01-12 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 09:34:47AM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: > The volume on illumos-based systems is always quite low. Here's the bug report: https://www.illumos.org/issues/13098 -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace failed rpool mirror disk?

2021-01-17 Thread Gary Mills
command if you are using the whole disk. You can tell that from `zpool status'. If you are using slices, you will need to use format to make it the same as the other disk. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace failed rpool mirror disk?

2021-01-17 Thread Gary Mills
t assume that > all is ok with the boot loader. It is even possible that zfs arranged to > install the boot loader on the disk automatically. To be sure all is okay, try booting from one disk and then the other. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] When will AMD XIII CPUs be supported

2021-01-21 Thread Gary Mills
ter all, you only install once. > It either bootloops just after > zfs0 /pseudo/zfs@0 > > or it dumps core at the first language choice screen. > Any thoughts/suggestions? That certainly could be a problem. Did you capture the core file or record the traceback? --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] When will AMD XIII CPUs be supported

2021-01-21 Thread Gary Mills
. It will be included with the full OI kernel, but perhaps not with the loader. Selecting AHCI mode in the BIOS for the disk controller may fix the problem. I notice when I run: $ prtconf -D on my system, it shows ahci as the disk contr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] When will AMD XIII CPUs be supported

2021-01-22 Thread Gary Mills
/pci@0,0/pci1022,1453@1,3/pci1b21,1062@0,1/disk@1,0 2. c5t2d0 /pci@0,0/pci1022,1453@1,3/pci1b21,1062@0,1/disk@2,0 3. c5t3d0 /pci@0,0/pci1022,1453@1,3/pci1b21,1062@0,1/disk@3,0 Specify disk (enter its number): ^D -- -Gary Mills

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS Error

2021-01-22 Thread Gary Mills
On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 08:29:21AM +0700, Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss wrote: > Hi. Try importing your pool on FreeBSD or Linux. The usual way is to boot the install medium on your OI system, and then import the pool there. -- -Gary Mills--ref

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] When will AMD XIII CPUs be supported

2021-01-22 Thread Gary Mills
ardware device. I've never seen that before. The first is an ethernet driver. The second is the SATA controller driver. It has one disk. Can you disable the ethernet in the BIOS? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] When will AMD XIII CPUs be supported

2021-01-23 Thread Gary Mills
On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 04:44:21PM +, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 2:22 AM Gary Mills wrote: > > > That's peculiar: there are two drivers attached to the same hardware > > device. I've never seen that before. > > That's normal. pc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What's HASWELL support like on OI?

2021-01-28 Thread Gary Mills
. All I ever did was to do the initial install from the live USB image, and do updates afterwards with the pkg command. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-dis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

2021-01-29 Thread Gary Mills
ks in UEFI mode, but OI does not. Usually you are offered a choice at boot time. Chose BIOS mode. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

2021-01-30 Thread Gary Mills
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 08:19:16AM +0200, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: > > > On 30. Jan 2021, at 03:57, Gary Mills wrote: > > > > The loader works in UEFI mode, but OI does not. Usually you are > > offered a choice at boot time. Chose BIOS mode. >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

2021-01-30 Thread Gary Mills
ing DRM driver and thats the > reason why you need to use vesa in first place…. Also correct. I believe that Aurélien is working on the DRM driver. I will be happier when that is ported and working. -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana as a server.

2021-01-31 Thread Gary Mills
a few things to be desired. We also should welcome new people, not drive them away. People learn by making mistakes. That's quite normal and usual. In fact, we need new people. If somebody asks a question, refer them to a place where they can find the answer. Please be toleran

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] catching hell getting booted

2021-02-04 Thread Gary Mills
ome funny things with their BIOS. Are you saving your changes after you make them? Does the BIOS show the new boot order after the boot fails? Some systems will not boot from USB, but in that case they will still boot from a CD reader. I don't think that's your problem. -- -Gary Mills

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DNS problem

2021-02-20 Thread Gary Mills
al IP addresses. On OI, some ethernet devices do not have a driver. That may be your problem with the Linksys N600. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindia

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "format -e" segmentation fault attempting to label a 5 TB disk in Hipster 2017.10

2021-02-22 Thread Gary Mills
ontroller/635830#635830 -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

2021-03-01 Thread Gary Mills
d within format to see the slices. You can use the fdisk command within format to see the FDISK partitions. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

2021-03-02 Thread Gary Mills
tall-solaris-on-a-fake-raid-a-k-a-ahciraid-sata-sas-controller/635830#635830 -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

2021-03-02 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 09:17:31AM -0500, John D Groenveld wrote: > In message <20210302014545.ga6...@imap.fastmail.com>, Gary Mills writes: > >These are Solaris partions, now called slices. They are within a > >single FDISK partition. You can use the partition command wi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

2021-03-02 Thread Gary Mills
fully-qualified path of prtconf, like this: /usr/sbin/prtconf -v | less I know that it's complicated, but it's the only way to accomodate a broken disk controller. Also, you only have to do this once. Most systems do not have this problem. -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

2021-03-03 Thread Gary Mills
all that only needed to follow the first part of the instructions. The main thing is the add_drv and rebuilding the boot archive. There was only one BE, of course. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindi

[OpenIndiana-discuss] More information on my HP Z400

2021-03-03 Thread Gary Mills
ill have this disk controller card. The addition to /etc/driver_aliases that I made by add_drv long ago is this line: ahci "pci8086,2822.103c.1309.0" It probably can be less specific. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

2021-03-03 Thread Gary Mills
On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 07:57:39AM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: > > I looked around for my notes on the first install of OI on my Z400, > but couldn't find anything. Maybe it was that easy that I didn't > bother making notes. I do recall that only needed to follow t

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