[osol-discuss] Projector problem with Sony Vaio FW with ATI Radeon

2009-03-12 Thread Sang Shin
I installed OpenSolaris 2008.11 onto Sony FW series laptop, which has ATI Radeon. I am having a problem projecting it. Any suggestion? Another problem is that the maximum resolution I have is 1024*768. I have captured the Xorg.0.log file per suggestion by someone http://javapassion.com/tmp/Xorg

Re: [osol-discuss] emacs keys

2009-03-12 Thread Mike "Ford" Ditto
Harry, I'm CC'ing desktop-discuss where the experts are supposed to be. The control-space problem is different from the various keystrokes that get eaten by the window manager and can be fixed using the keyboard shortcuts preferences. It doesn't seem to be a window manager thing because some app

Re: [osol-discuss] When adding brand new disk to osol install

2009-03-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Thomas Maier-Komor writes: > If you only have two disks for a new ZFS pool, I'd recommend a mirror > setup instead of a RAIDZ1. I'm not even sure if you can setup two disks > as a RAIDZ1... Anyway a regular mirror will be much faster than a RAIDZ1 > and you won't lose any space in a two disks scen

Re: [osol-discuss] vim doesn't source ~/.vimrc

2009-03-12 Thread Shawn Walker
Harry Putnam wrote: Shawn Walker writes: It looks like it's opening it just fine. So maybe there's a syntax error in the file or something causing vim to ignore its contents? What makes you believe it's being ignored? You'd think it might be but if so then :so .vimrc would find the same pr

Re: [osol-discuss] vim doesn't source ~/.vimrc

2009-03-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Shawn Walker writes: > It looks like it's opening it just fine. So maybe there's a syntax > error in the file or something causing vim to ignore its contents? > > What makes you believe it's being ignored? You'd think it might be but if so then :so .vimrc would find the same problem but it does

Re: [osol-discuss] Installing build 108 password boot on live dvd

2009-03-12 Thread Andras Barna
try: pfexec svcadm clear nwam On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Peter Jones wrote: > I am attempting to run a live DVD of Build 108.I get to login opensolaris > password etc..each of the ansawers I fill in Jack...it then fails to install > with text stating 'j...@opensolaris :$' which I cannot

[osol-discuss] Installing build 108 password boot on live dvd

2009-03-12 Thread Peter Jones
I am attempting to run a live DVD of Build 108.I get to login opensolaris password etc..each of the ansawers I fill in Jack...it then fails to install with text stating 'j...@opensolaris :$' which I cannot go beyond.My build 102 installs normally on all machines I try..is this a bug or something

Re: [osol-discuss] When adding brand new disk to osol install

2009-03-12 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Harry Putnam wrote: > I´m about to add a brand new disk to my opensol-108 install and > suddenly realized I did´nt know if I needed to do anything to the disk > once installed. > > I don´t have anything but experimental deletable stuff setup yet. > (Aside fromm rpool) but plan to put the new disk

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris Bible: Buy it!

2009-03-12 Thread Dave Miner
Brian Cameron wrote: Dave: Specifically in the case of partitioning, I think we chose not to emphasize this as strongly, as ZFS makes it a far less interesting topic in general; you really want to just be giving it whole disks and making your life simpler. Perhaps that's being a little too opti

[osol-discuss] When adding brand new disk to osol install

2009-03-12 Thread Harry Putnam
I´m about to add a brand new disk to my opensol-108 install and suddenly realized I did´nt know if I needed to do anything to the disk once installed. I don´t have anything but experimental deletable stuff setup yet. (Aside fromm rpool) but plan to put the new disk and one already installed (that

Re: [osol-discuss] vim doesn't source ~/.vimrc

2009-03-12 Thread Shawn Walker
Harry Putnam wrote: Brandon Hume writes: On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:47 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: It worked for me for a while too. But now it doesn't. To test, I moved the actual actual file into ~/ and as I showed in OP it belongs to me. What does truss tell you is happening? ie: truss -o

Re: [osol-discuss] vim doesn't source ~/.vimrc

2009-03-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Brandon Hume writes: > On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:47 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >> It worked for me for a while too. But now it doesn't. To test, I >> moved the actual actual file into ~/ and as I showed in OP it belongs >> to me. > > What does truss tell you is happening? > > ie: truss -o vim.tr

Re: [osol-discuss] vim doesn't source ~/.vimrc

2009-03-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Lurie writes: > Worked fine for me for all builds (now on b109), so you might want > to simply copy it, instead of using a symlink. Yes, of course I did that right away but it made no difference. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discus

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris Bible: Buy it!

2009-03-12 Thread Harry Putnam
James Carlson writes: > Harry Putnam writes: >> I wanted to partition and slice up my disk to be able to work with >> raidz. Maybe that isn't really important and all the same stuff >> applies to any zpool. I don't know yet... I'm just getting >> started. > I'm not sure that's a wise idea in

Re: [osol-discuss] emacs keys

2009-03-12 Thread Harry Putnam
"David Dyer-Bennet" writes: > -- > David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ > Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ > Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ > Dragaera: http://dragaera.info Thanks for the input, glad to hear someone say it isnt just me. I´m new en

Re: [osol-discuss] vim doesn't source ~/.vimrc

2009-03-12 Thread Brandon Hume
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:47 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > It worked for me for a while too. But now it doesn't. To test, I > moved the actual actual file into ~/ and as I showed in OP it belongs > to me. What does truss tell you is happening? ie: truss -o vim.truss -f vim testfile grep vimr

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris Bible: Buy it!

2009-03-12 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> I say again... the book is not junk, and probably > worth the > price.. but is not a `Bible´ . At least not like > some of the O´Rellly > books have been. And just leave it at that. Forgot to say that, thanks for the comments. Many of us on this forum don't have problem trashing Sun, the Ope

Re: [osol-discuss] Full Root? - I think Not

2009-03-12 Thread Shawn Walker
Dave Miner wrote: Note that the transfer sizes displayed by pkg are compressed size, so you actually got closer to 150 MB of executables and so on, which is more accurate for comparison purposes vs. the old native zones. We fixed that; that shouldn't be true as of several builds ago. Cheers,

Re: [osol-discuss] Full Root? - I think Not

2009-03-12 Thread Dave Miner
Rick S. wrote: Hi all. I come from the "Real Solaris" world, been working with Solaris 10 for about 3 years now, and decided to give OpenSoalaris a place on my home server vice Soalris 10 x86. I think I'm missing something here, on Solaris 10 when I create a 'full' root zone, it copies over 1

Re: [osol-discuss] emacs keys

2009-03-12 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, March 11, 2009 11:05, Howard Yeh wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:54 AM, wrote: >> Yes, >> >> Osol has GNOME desktop and CDE only. Please, tell me how to do it. There >> are >> no issues with the keyboard at all. I looked at xev. >> left Alt sends Alt-L but in emacs it is mapped to Alt

Re: [osol-discuss] Copying files and folders

2009-03-12 Thread Hanma
I did it! THank you very much!!! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Copying files and folders

2009-03-12 Thread Paul Gress
Hanma wrote: I'm sorry for my dumby questions, but why installation don't create shortcut automatically? And where i can find installed applications? For example Opera /Your_Installed_Location/bin/opera Replace /Your_Installed_Location to where it actually installed. I don't install oper

Re: [osol-discuss] Copying files and folders

2009-03-12 Thread Paul Gress
Hanma wrote: Opera works, but there is no icons anywhere. The last problem is icons, i don't understand, why installation can't create icons? I've alway been installing Opera as they update it. I also get the problem with no icons, for many releases earlier and current. It is only a probl

Re: [osol-discuss] vim doesn't source ~/.vimrc

2009-03-12 Thread Shawn Walker
Harry Putnam wrote: Shawn Walker writes: But still it does not get sourced when I start vim on a file. What build are you on? I'm using 106. I´m on 108 I can only suggest you try trussing the process then to see if any errors show up. I just updated to build 109 last night and it stil

Re: [osol-discuss] Copying files and folders

2009-03-12 Thread Hanma
I'm sorry for my dumby questions, but why installation don't create shortcut automatically? And where i can find installed applications? For example Opera -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discu

Re: [osol-discuss] vim doesn't source ~/.vimrc

2009-03-12 Thread Lurie
Worked fine for me for all builds (now on b109), so you might want to simply copy it, instead of using a symlink. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Copying files and folders

2009-03-12 Thread Lurie
What icons are you talking about ? You can always create a shortcut of your own... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Copying files and folders

2009-03-12 Thread Hanma
Opera works, but there is no icons anywhere. The last problem is icons, i don't understand, why installation can't create icons? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Copying files and folders

2009-03-12 Thread Lurie
All you have to do: $ tar xvjf opera-10.00-4205.gcc3-static-qt3.tar.bz2 $ cd opera-9.64-2480.gcc3-static-qt3 $ pfexec ./install.sh --prefix=/usr Works fine for me.. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensol

Re: [osol-discuss] Copying files and folders

2009-03-12 Thread Hanma
I fixed ggrep. Now, there is another problem, ./install.sh[1756]: cd: usr/share/icons/hicolor: [No such file or directory]. Could it be because of "/" before "usr/..."? If not, what i must to do? I remember you, I installed OpenSolaris to VirtualBox. Maybe there is another thing, that I have to

Re: [osol-discuss] Copying files and folders

2009-03-12 Thread James Carlson
Hanma writes: > What means ''grep: illegal option -- q > Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . . > grep: illegal option -- q > Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . ." > > it don't works. There is message "./install.sh[1756]: cd: > usr/share/icons/hicolor: [No such file or directory] > cp: ca

Re: [osol-discuss] Copying files and folders

2009-03-12 Thread Hanma
What means ''grep: illegal option -- q Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . . grep: illegal option -- q Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . ." it don't works. There is message "./install.sh[1756]: cd: usr/share/icons/hicolor: [No such file or directory] cp: cannot access usr/share/icons/hi

Re: [osol-discuss] vim doesn't source ~/.vimrc

2009-03-12 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Harry Putnam schrieb: > Setup: > OS=Opensolaris 2008.11 > vim=See full `:version output at the end > > When I start vim on a file it does not source the ~/.vimrc file. > That file is actually a symlink to the hard file elsewhere. > > Permissions are on both slink and hard copy: > ls -l ~/.vimrc:

Re: [osol-discuss] Regarding Pstack

2009-03-12 Thread James Carlson
Akhil Jain writes: > Can you please tell me some good doc links about understanding the output of > Pstack. Like when I do a pstack on my process it shows like: > > 0009a890 main (1c, ffbff45c, ffbff4d0, 24d000, fd0a0380, fd0a03c0) + 2018 > 00098448 _start (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 108 > > So

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris Bible: Buy it!

2009-03-12 Thread James Carlson
Harry Putnam writes: > I wanted to partition and slice up my disk to be able to work with > raidz. Maybe that isn't really important and all the same stuff > applies to any zpool. I don't know yet... I'm just getting > started. I'm not sure that's a wise idea in the first place. A RAID volume

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Users in Cambodia? Also BarCamp Phnom Penh planned for August

2009-03-12 Thread Paul Harper
Am I the only one? Also the second Bar Camp Phom Penh is planned for August. Date is not set yet. http://barcampphnompenh.org/ More to follow -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@openso

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris Bible: Buy it!

2009-03-12 Thread Paul Harper
I pre-ordered mine and probably have the only copy in Cambodia. I recall chatting last year with one dminer on #opensolaris or #os200805 telling him he had sold one copy already. Still we havn't hit the big time until we also have an OReilly Book! ;) I also wish that the book had been around w

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris Bible: Buy it!

2009-03-12 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Greg Palmer > writes: > > [...] > > >> I am beginning to disagree about contents too. > I'm way low on the > > skill level in unix or Solaris but have run unix or > unix like OS for > >> over 10 yrs, mostly linux but with several months > experience with 2 of > >> the BSDs (open and free) and

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris Bible: Buy it!

2009-03-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Greg Palmer writes: [...] >> I am beginning to disagree about contents too. I'm way low on the >> skill level in unix or Solaris but have run unix or unix like OS for >> over 10 yrs, mostly linux but with several months experience with 2 of >> the BSDs (open and free) and at least 2 mnths with