Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Asus A7V8X-X LAN Setup

2006-04-28 Thread Eric Enright
On 4/28/06, W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all! > what I need to install and use the on-board lan in an > Asus A7V8X-X, in > the OpenSolaris build 36? > > Thanks! > > Rodrigo > __ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] SX Releases - Visibility

2006-04-28 Thread Moazam Raja
Slowly but surely, it is happening. What exactly would you like to see about each of the SX releases? A 'What's new' update? Let everyone know.. Cuddletech (www.cuddletech.com/blog) is one of the most updated weblogs (outside of Sun) about OpenSolaris. Another is Unix Admin Corner (http:/

[osol-discuss] Re: sol-nv-b36 just released as Solaris Express 4/06

2006-04-28 Thread Phil Plouffe
> This is the "even more tested" edition and, in my > opinion, really solid: Is there any modifications made vs SCXR released ? Or is it really just more tested ? Philippe Plouffe This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mai

Re: [osol-discuss] SX Releases - Visibility

2006-04-28 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
David J. Orman wrote: I've been attempting to keep up with the SX releases on OSNews since I visit the site every few days or so, but I thought it might be wise to point out to people that it's probably a good idea to start attempting to make OSOL/Solaris more visible around the net. Especiall

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSound and Solaris 10 01/06

2006-04-28 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
Dev Mazumdar wrote: What's the sound chip and what's the app?. Did you try XMMS in Open Sound System plugin mode? Sometimes, a reboot may help because if the audio chip was initialized by a different driver then it could be in a state OSS doesn't recognize as "baseline". regards Dev Mazumdar

[osol-discuss] Re: Controlling uname -r output to mask version value ( SOLUTION )

2006-04-28 Thread Nilotpal Bhattacharyya
I recived two solutions to my initial question : The DTRACE solution worked in the quick for me the link to that is at http://forum.sun.com/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=74725&messageID=272404 Reproduced below: = This was Posted by Giri Mandalika

Re: [osol-discuss] How to bypass 'NFSv4 Domain Name' screen at the first boot after solaris installaiton

2006-04-28 Thread Raymond Xiong
On 04/29/06, Yandong Yao wrote: > Hi guys, > >I use jumpstart to install solaris nevada and use 'set_nfs4_domain' > to bypass the NFSv4 domain name screen at the first reboot, this works > fine before, but for snv_38, NFSv4 domain name require user to press > 'F2' or 'F6' and the former 'se

Re: [osol-discuss] How to bypass 'NFSv4 Domain Name' screen at the first boot after solaris installaiton

2006-04-28 Thread Yandong Yao
Hi Raymond, thank you very much for you quick reply! Regards, yandong Raymond Xiong wrote: On 04/29/06, Yandong Yao wrote: Hi guys, I use jumpstart to install solaris nevada and use 'set_nfs4_domain' to bypass the NFSv4 domain name screen at the first reboot, this works fine before

[osol-discuss] How to bypass 'NFSv4 Domain Name' screen at the first boot after solaris installaiton

2006-04-28 Thread Yandong Yao
Hi guys, I use jumpstart to install solaris nevada and use 'set_nfs4_domain' to bypass the NFSv4 domain name screen at the first reboot, this works fine before, but for snv_38, NFSv4 domain name require user to press 'F2' or 'F6' and the former 'set_nfs4_domain' can't bypass this screen at

Re: [osol-discuss] Controlling uname -r output to mask version value

2006-04-28 Thread Darren Reed
Nilotpal Bhattacharyya wrote: How do i mask uname -r value for some third party software install which checks for Solaris OS version and fails to install. Write a small .c file that intercepts uname(2) calls and replaces the release field with "5.10" and use LD_PRELOAD to cause it to be in

Re: [osol-discuss] Controlling uname -r output to mask version value

2006-04-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Nilotpal Bhattacharyya wrote: How do i mask uname -r value for some third party software install which checks for Solaris OS version and fails to install. Any idea? and some examples to do it, would be nice DTrace! http://forum.sun.com/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=74725&messageID=272404 http

[osol-discuss] Controlling uname -r output to mask version value

2006-04-28 Thread Nilotpal Bhattacharyya
How do i mask uname -r value for some third party software install which checks for Solaris OS version and fails to install. Any idea? and some examples to do it, would be nice -- Nil === For example my test server is running this in real

Re: [osol-discuss] Request for new forum: embedded-discuss

2006-04-28 Thread Darren Reed
Stephen Hahn wrote: * Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-28 16:03]: Hi, To bring together the various groups of people who are interested in talking about Solaris for embedded use, I'd like to propose creating a new discussion forum, embedded-discuss. The purpose of this forum would

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/sbin/format: where is the -force flag?

2006-04-28 Thread Daniel Rock
Sarah Jelinek schrieb: Bill Sommerfeld wrote: It does allow you to change the sizes of partitions which are not in use, as long as they don't overlap in use partitions. It even lets you grow in use partitions. The heuristic of the vfstab being 'in use' could be improved upon however, which I

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/sbin/format: where is the -force flag?

2006-04-28 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 19:40, Sarah Jelinek wrote: > The heuristic of the vfstab being 'in use' could be improved upon > however, which I believe is Daniel's main concern. The idea is that > entries in /etc/vfstab are possibly in use, and designed to help users > not step on filesystems that may

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/sbin/format: where is the -force flag?

2006-04-28 Thread Sarah Jelinek
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 18:05, Sarah Jelinek wrote: partition> la Cannot label disk when partitions are in use as described. I do not think a -force flag is appropriate. instead, we should improve the granularity of the in-use detection -- fix format so it lets

[osol-discuss] SX Releases - Visibility

2006-04-28 Thread David J. Orman
I've been attempting to keep up with the SX releases on OSNews since I visit the site every few days or so, but I thought it might be wise to point out to people that it's probably a good idea to start attempting to make OSOL/Solaris more visible around the net. Especially with all the nifty stu

Re: [osol-discuss] question concerning kstat's biostats, ufs_inode_cache, hsfs_hsnode_cache

2006-04-28 Thread Daniel Rock
Thomas Maier-Komor schrieb: I also iterate only once and search for the modules/classes of interest. Why do you use strncmp? Are ks_module and Co not guaranteed to be null terminated or did you mix it up with ks_name which includes the trailing id? Maybe just a leftover from an earlier implemen

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/sbin/format: where is the -force flag?

2006-04-28 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 18:05, Sarah Jelinek wrote: > > partition> la > > Cannot label disk when partitions are in use as described. I do not think a -force flag is appropriate. instead, we should improve the granularity of the in-use detection -- fix format so it lets you change the sizes of part

Re: [osol-discuss] no SXCR release today

2006-04-28 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Sorry, but SXCR build 38 is not won't be made available today. I know > the team tried very hard to resolve a last-minute legal question, but > were unable to do it in time for the release today. > > I don't have a definitive date for when 38 will be available, but it > should be on or before We

Re: [osol-discuss] Request for new forum: embedded-discuss

2006-04-28 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-28 16:03]: > Hi, > > To bring together the various groups of people who are interested in > talking about Solaris for embedded use, I'd like to propose creating a > new discussion forum, embedded-discuss. > > The purpose of this forum would be to discuss

[osol-discuss] no SXCR release today

2006-04-28 Thread Karyn Ritter
Sorry, but SXCR build 38 is not won't be made available today. I know the team tried very hard to resolve a last-minute legal question, but were unable to do it in time for the release today. I don't have a definitive date for when 38 will be available, but it should be on or before Wed. (5/3)

[osol-discuss] Request for new forum: embedded-discuss

2006-04-28 Thread Darren Reed
Hi, To bring together the various groups of people who are interested in talking about Solaris for embedded use, I'd like to propose creating a new discussion forum, embedded-discuss. The purpose of this forum would be to discuss issues related to creating an embedded system using Solaris (or Op

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/sbin/format: where is the -force flag?

2006-04-28 Thread Sarah Jelinek
One other thing... use utility/other for cat/subcat and please add me to interest list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks, sarah Daniel Rock wrote: Hi, this week I gave snv_36 a try (hadn't upgraded for a long time) - and this new "feature" (put in double quotes) was getting me in rage: 6194015

Re: [osol-discuss] question concerning kstat's biostats, ufs_inode_cache, hsfs_hsnode_cache

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Daniel Rock wrote: > Thomas Maier-Komor schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> I am once again looking at a kstat output and trying to understand what >> some of these fields might mean and what their unit might be. >> Unfortunately the units aren't documented anywhere, are they? > > Use the source, Luke! > ;-)

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/sbin/format: where is the -force flag?

2006-04-28 Thread Sarah Jelinek
Hi Daniel, I am the developer who did the work for this feature. We originally had a force flag planned for all the utilities that were modified to enable in use checking. However, the force flag was an area of much debate and in the end we removed it. We recognize this is a potential issue fo

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Virtual Console

2006-04-28 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Thanks, Riny, for this proposal. You have seconds. Eric will get you guys set up. Jim Riny Qian wrote: > The Virtual Console project would provide multiple consoles and > switch between Xserver and consoles for Solaris. There are two areas > of work envisioned: > > 1. Multiple consoles > 2. Swi

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Re: Banner Ads on Sun.com

2006-04-28 Thread Sara Dornsife
Since Stephen is probably not the only one out there representing OpenSolaris in some capacity, we have posted an editable OpenSolaris "business card" at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/mktgdownloads/ for your use if you'd like it.  Insert your own personal information. There

[osol-discuss] /usr/sbin/format: where is the -force flag?

2006-04-28 Thread Daniel Rock
Hi, this week I gave snv_36 a try (hadn't upgraded for a long time) - and this new "feature" (put in double quotes) was getting me in rage: 6194015 PSARC/2004/776 - Device in use checking for Solaris utilities What I normally do after Solaris installation is mirroring the boot disk via SVM.

Re: [osol-discuss] question concerning kstat's biostats, ufs_inode_cache, hsfs_hsnode_cache

2006-04-28 Thread Daniel Rock
Thomas Maier-Komor schrieb: Hi, I am once again looking at a kstat output and trying to understand what > some of these fields might mean and what their unit might be. > Unfortunately the units aren't documented anywhere, are they? Use the source, Luke! biostats is probably the statistics f

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-04-28 Thread Sara Dornsife
Yes. We all should. But, we obviously can't buy every one of our 13,000 registered members a shirt and ship it to them. Although that would be nice, it's pretty cost prohibitive. If we made a special commemorative t-shirt and put it on the Sun open source cafepress store (or anywhere else that

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSound and Solaris 10 01/06

2006-04-28 Thread Dev Mazumdar
What's the sound chip and what's the app?. Did you try XMMS in Open Sound System plugin mode? Sometimes, a reboot may help because if the audio chip was initialized by a different driver then it could be in a state OSS doesn't recognize as "baseline". regards Dev Mazumdar This message pos

[osol-discuss] Re: Asus A7V8X-X LAN Setup

2006-04-28 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Hi all! > what I need to install and use the on-board lan in an > Asus A7V8X-X, in > the OpenSolaris build 36? > > Thanks! > > Rodrigo > __ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > The easiest way as I found out is

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-04-28 Thread Stephen Lau
Roland Mainz wrote: Stephen Hahn wrote: The plan of record for hosting source code is to support Subversion and (now) Mercurial as a per-repository choice, so there's no freeze out for projects that believe they require Subversion for their tools. The primary consolidation driving the distr

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-04-28 Thread Torrey McMahon
Shouldn't we all have "1 Year Anniversary" t-shirts by now? :) Terri Molini wrote: I like these ideas! -terri Jim Grisanzio wrote On 04/27/06 14:33,: Perhaps we could consider giving out some awards to community members who have achieved something in their area? * code contributions * docume

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-04-28 Thread Terri Molini
I like these ideas! -terri Jim Grisanzio wrote On 04/27/06 14:33,: Perhaps we could consider giving out some awards to community members who have achieved something in their area? * code contributions * documentation contributions * most innovative work with OpenSolaris source *

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSound and Solaris 10 01/06

2006-04-28 Thread Wes Williams
Perhaps your best bet is the OpenSound developers at http://www.opensound.com/support.cgi I've approached the 4Front Tech. once in the past and had been impressed by their overall audio software knowledge and level of support for their products. This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: OpenSolaris attacked by Novell]

2006-04-28 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Saturday 22 April 2006 09:06 am, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > With that said, I'll post to my blog about this "controversary article" > > in the next day or two. > > I for one, love your blog. I will watch for that ! http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/aland#sun_is_working_true_to Provided as feedba

[osol-discuss] question concerning kstat's biostats, ufs_inode_cache, hsfs_hsnode_cache

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Hi, I am once again looking at a kstat output and trying to understand what some of these fields might mean and what their unit might be. Unfortunately the units aren't documented anywhere, are they? biostats is probably the statistics for the ddi I/O buffers of Solaris that are accessible via

[osol-discuss] Re: Asus A7V8X-X LAN Setup

2006-04-28 Thread Jürgen Keil
> what I need to install and use the on-board lan in an Asus A7V8X-X, in > the OpenSolaris build 36? What PCI devices are reported when you run /usr/X11/bin/scanpci as user root? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss maili

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Problems booting Solaris (10 01/06, NV_33) on HP Pavilion dv8000

2006-04-28 Thread Jean-François Ndi
> > So, unless I am really wrong, it looks like the bug > has been silently fixed. > Update: I have been able to boot without the work around: - b37 64-bit - b37 32-bit But: - failsafe does not boot whithout the work around - In debug mode I hit the problem If someone does understand something