Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 install trouble, NVIDIA

2012-01-10 Thread John Martin
On 01/10/12 15:38, Blai Bonet wrote: I'm also having trouble with the nvidia driver. I installed Solaris 11 11/11 in a Sun Ultra 20. Everything went fine until installing the desktop. Afterwards, I get kernel panics (and crash dumps) when using the supplied nividia driver. Please provide the p

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 install trouble, NVIDIA

2011-11-11 Thread John Martin
On 11/10/11 21:09, Paul Gress wrote: /kernel/drv/amd64/nvidia: undefined symbol 'pm_destroy_components' warning: mod_load: cannot load module 'nvidia' You are using an old NVIDIA driver without the fix for IR 842949. Either use the bundled driver for Solaris 11 or any driver from nvidia.com po

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel Kernel Mode-setting (KMS) in snv173

2011-10-17 Thread John Martin
On 10/17/11 13:38, Bruno Damour wrote: I has tried with console=text but not the correct option as it seems ;-) console=text still uses bitmapped graphics. From the heads up message: Solaris now has support for high resolution and color depth consoles. By default, your machine will boot usi

Re: [osol-discuss] libc thread failure: _thread_setschedparam_main() fails

2011-03-19 Thread John Martin
struct queue *chunk_que; chunk_que = spm_normal_malloc(sizeof(struct queue) * nqueues); pthread_mutex_init(&que->mutex, NULL); pthread_mutex_lock(&que->mutex); //The error occurs here! Go check your test program. It is not doing what you think it is. Check the return code from your call to

Re: [osol-discuss] sort options

2011-03-18 Thread John Martin
On 03/18/11 08:18 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: I think sort(1) needs a couple of new (as of the last time I looked at an OpenSolaris man page) options: -C (upper case letter C): same as -c but explicitly silent. This should comply with the latest SUS/XPG, and reconcile the difference betwee

Re: [osol-discuss] What pkg is my command in.

2011-03-10 Thread John Martin
On 03/10/11 10:26 AM, Mike DeMarco wrote: How do you go about finding which package the command you want to add is in. pkg search /usr/bin/resize ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2011-02-25 Thread John Martin
On 02/25/11 04:23 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: I dont have a cluster or specialized hardware at home, to do heavy calculations. I can buy Nvidia card to do calculations, but Solaris does not support OpenCL nor CUDA nor anything similar - as far as I know. To use graphic cards to do heavy calculati

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

2011-02-24 Thread John Martin
On 02/24/11 03:14 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote: Thanks for the tips, but I also need to do heavy development and run heavy calculations. So I need a beefy CPU above all. But I prefer if it has low power requirements. That is the reason Sandybridge is what I prefer. I have to wait and see how the 3D

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

2011-02-24 Thread John Martin
On 02/24/11 06:50 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: If I can replace all computers at home, with SunRays I have saved power. Say each PC uses 100 watt at idle, that could be 300Watt at idle. If I replace them with a SunRay server that idles at 50watt, I have saved lots of power. I want the server to be

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

2011-02-23 Thread John Martin
On 02/23/11 12:46 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 02/23/11 02:56 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: I thought 3D driver for Sandbybridge was on it's way? Unlike the nvidia driver, which is available for download separate from the OS, Minor nit. The driver available for download from nvidia.com c

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

2011-02-21 Thread John Martin
On 02/21/11 09:56 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: Eric, Intel Sandybridge, does it support ECC? I heard that Intel does not allow hardware targeted to home users support ECC. Only server stuff supports ECC. http://www.evga.com/support/motherboard/ The eVGA X58 motherboards allow Xeon CPUs with ECC me

Re: [osol-discuss] Fan speed control in OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana

2011-01-18 Thread John Martin
Also have you been able to tell which fan is spinning fast? If there is a fan on the graphics card, which model? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Fan speed control in OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana

2011-01-18 Thread John Martin
On 01/18/11 09:03 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote: Copying the text of PowerTOP destroys the formatting so I supply a png of it instead. At present I'm running a virtual machine (with Windows) and Gnome but I get the same fan speed even when there is nothing running. rge#1 is producing a lot of inter

Re: [osol-discuss] Fan speed control in OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana

2011-01-18 Thread John Martin
On 01/18/11 08:10 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote: I have noticed that when booting my system in Windows the fans are rotating at a much lower speed than in OSOL/OI. I even tested running some heavy applications for the duration of a couple of hours and still the fans were lower. The conclusion I dr

Re: [osol-discuss] Need coaching about used equipment

2011-01-13 Thread John Martin
On 01/12/11 08:58 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: If you care about video/audio, I'd look at the used workstation stuff. It has less hard drive bays, but better audio and video capacity. FWIW, some (most?) newer NVIDIA cards come with an audio device that works with the Solaris audio plumbing. The au

Re: [osol-discuss] X11 With Multi thread

2010-12-15 Thread John Martin
On 12/15/10 12:55 PM, Debabrata Debroy wrote: Hi I want to use X11 in a multi threaded Application . I have attached a code that I have written to achieve it .Basically From main function I am calling a callback function fun() which will create a thread add(). From the thread I am again

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express: xterm very slow

2010-12-15 Thread John Martin
On 12/15/10 09:38 AM, Claus Assmann wrote: Oh well, maybe I put an nVidia graphics card into the box again and see how that works (it caused some problems with X and the selection of a graphics card before). Details? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing l

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-12-14 Thread John Martin
On 12/12/10 01:29 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: The mouse being reported as going online and offline several times a second seems like the much bigger problem. On 12/10/10 01:13 PM, user124 wrote: My G9 work in 2009.06 from snv_111b to snv_117 normally, but from snv_118 till nowadays builds i

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-12-13 Thread John Martin
On 12/13/10 09:26 AM, user124 wrote: I think i guessed how to solve this problem. Find the same problem with another mouse and the solution was is to connect mouse through USB hub. Active or passive hub? (Possible power issue) ___ opensolaris-discus

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-12-09 Thread John Martin
On 12/ 9/10 04:04 PM, user124 wrote: Dec 9 22:55:38 solaris usba: [ID 349649 kern.info] Logitech G9 Laser Mouse 0719BBECD10029 Dec 9 22:55:38 solaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] hid0 is /p...@0,0/pci1043,8...@13/dev...@1/keybo...@0 Dec 9 22:55:38 solaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info]

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-12-09 Thread John Martin
On 12/ 9/10 03:37 PM, user124 wrote: Maybe someone would answer to my question after viewing this listing? Your last questions were: Should i have root for viewing /var/adm/messages when i boot from live CD? What is the root password when i boot from live CD? The last one was answered

Re: [osol-discuss] songbird bug

2010-12-08 Thread John Martin
On 12/ 8/10 04:26 PM, Paul Gress wrote: I also just tried my Songbird, and get the same repeating of the second song with Sol Ex 11 b151a. Reported on other platforms also: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/songbird_repeats_every_second_song_endless

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-12-07 Thread John Martin
On 12/ 7/10 01:41 PM, user124 wrote: Anybody? Any ideas? I looked for a G9 in local stores but only the G9x is now available. The web page you sent points to a link that implies the G9 is EOL, replaced by the G9x. When you boot LiveCD are there any interesting USB messages in /var/adm/message

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-12-06 Thread John Martin
On 12/ 6/10 07:45 AM, user124 wrote: 8 usb_mid 1 device 046d.c048 G9 Laser Mouse I looked in local computer stores and all I could find was a Logitech G9x: http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0317173 Does this look the same or can you p

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-11-27 Thread John Martin
On 11/26/10 10:22 AM, user124 wrote: Need some time to show you listing of this command because, sometimes, it's hard to work in user interface without mouse. What does the output on b111b show? That will help identify the correct model. ___ opensol

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-11-25 Thread John Martin
On 11/25/10 02:34 PM, user124 wrote: Hi all, I've found myself having problems with my Logitech G9 laser mouse on Solaris Express 11. The cursor won't move, and the lights on the mouse keep flashing (rather than lighting solidly as they should). Mouse worked perfect on Solaris 2009.06 (111b), b

Re: [osol-discuss] X11 XtAppAddTimeOut is not working properly.

2010-11-22 Thread John Martin
On 11/22/10 07:13 AM, Debabrata Debroy wrote: Hi John it is working fine with the changes .Can you please tell what will be the performance impact of this The system clock tick rate gets bumped from 100Hz (10mS) to 1000Hz (1mS), so the system load handling the clock interrupt will go up. Objec

Re: [osol-discuss] X11 XtAppAddTimeOut is not working properly.

2010-11-22 Thread John Martin
On 11/22/10 12:25 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: I believe Linux defaults to a higher resolution timer, something you can enable system-wide on Solaris, ... Just as an experiment to verify, in /etc/system add: set hires_tick = 1 and reboot. ___ open

Re: [osol-discuss] No network/Internet

2010-10-17 Thread John Martin
On 10/17/10 08:50 AM, Jürgen Keil wrote: As far as I understand it, the Broadcom AC131 is the PHY chip attached at the nVidia MCP61 network controller. The nVidia MCP61 ethernet controller should be handled by the Solaris nge driver. The device driver utility is reporting that the nge driver w

Re: [osol-discuss] No network/Internet

2010-10-17 Thread John Martin
On 10/16/10 01:13 PM, Jürgen Keil wrote: j...@opensolaris:~$ ifconfig nge0 ifconfig: status: SIOCGLIFFLAGS: nge0: no such interface nVidia MCP61 should work in build 73 or newer: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6497473 Is the nge driver matter here? The origin

Re: [osol-discuss] C programming, invalid argc value

2010-10-05 Thread John Martin
On 10/ 5/10 02:04 PM, Jürgen Keil wrote: Which compiler, compiler version, gdb version did you use? What compilation flags? What does the test program look like? Using Opensolaris b134, gcc 3.4.3, gdb 6.8, a simple "hello, world" type test program, and compilation options "-g -O" it works for m

Re: [osol-discuss] dtcalc grabs mouse and won't let go

2010-09-29 Thread John Martin
On 09/29/10 12:07 PM, Mike DeMarco wrote: Can't find a way to set the number of decimal places in galculator Calculator -> Preferences -> Show N decimal places ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] NetApp and Oracle settle patent dispute over ZFS

2010-09-13 Thread John Martin
On 09/13/10 08:22 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: But in any case, patents are anachronistic. Patents have been created to protect inventions made by single personss against big companies 200 years ago. Patents are now perverted by the big companies against the original intention.

Re: [osol-discuss] -Graphiccard Support- avaible soon?

2010-08-16 Thread John Martin
there was no need to do this when the vgatext kernel driver was being used. Matthias You (John Martin) wrote: On 08/15/10 01:22 PM, MOKE wrote: Yes it works great. Thank you very much ;-). this step by step tutorial very clearly and easy. While booting I have to edit the Bootloader and c

Re: [osol-discuss] -Graphiccard Support- avaible soon?

2010-08-15 Thread John Martin
On 08/15/10 01:22 PM, MOKE wrote: Yes it works great. Thank you very much ;-). this step by step tutorial very clearly and easy. While booting I have to edit the Bootloader and change from graphic loader to text loader. I would consider needing to disable graphics mode a bug, unless this is ju

Re: [osol-discuss] -Graphiccard Support- avaible soon?

2010-08-14 Thread John Martin
On 08/14/10 05:22 PM, MOKE wrote: Hellö My Question is: Are there any projects for NVIDIA Graphic Cards? I am using my Leptop Lenovo W510 with Nvidia FX880M but O-Sol doesent support this GraphicCard now.With Vesa drivers it works but it was not nice ;-( As long as Lenovo uses device id 0xa3c

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread John Martin
On 08/ 4/10 12:04 PM, Paul Gress wrote: When I read the Hardware Compatability notes for PTC Pro-Engineer WF5, it states there are no current plans for its next generation WF6 MCAD product to be developed on Solaris 10. This means to me, ... Carefu

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread John Martin
On 08/ 4/10 11:24 AM, Paul Gress wrote: Yes I believe that would be true if the OS was developed for Workstations. The only commitment I see from Oracle is Servers and Databases. Would CUDA help there? Large scale GPGPU deployment is being done on servers. _

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread John Martin
On 08/ 4/10 09:40 AM, Matthias Pfützner wrote: But, like Adrian Cockcroft did twitter last night: Mr. Ellison is backing Solaris. Pick your horse. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread John Martin
On 08/ 4/10 05:27 AM, Matthias Pfützner wrote: John Martin, any ideas? As this also would work for the "standard" Solaris, because at least, nVIDIA already does provide the drivers for Solaris... I don't see how Illumos provides added incentive (ignoring potential open versus

Re: [osol-discuss] unable to break out of X

2010-08-02 Thread John Martin
On 08/ 2/10 03:40 PM, Allen Jasewicz wrote: It is really weird, I am in single user mode, I have imported rpool to /a as read/write and I am unable to find an xorg.conf file on the /a mount. It was working and I wanted to make adjustments to the display and typed in kdmconfig while windows wa

Re: [osol-discuss] unable to break out of X

2010-08-02 Thread John Martin
On 08/ 2/10 03:40 PM, Allen Jasewicz wrote: It is really weird, I am in single user mode, I have imported rpool to /a as read/write and I am unable to find an xorg.conf file on the /a mount. It was working and I wanted to make adjustments to the display and typed in kdmconfig while windows wa

Re: [osol-discuss] network card driver issue with hp-z400 workstation

2010-08-01 Thread John Martin
On 08/ 1/10 11:55 AM, john george wrote: hi i have installed opensolaris 2009.06 in hp-z400... You need to download the bcme 57xx driver from Broadcom. http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtreme_server.php ___ opensolaris-discuss mailin

Re: [osol-discuss] Dell and HP to Certify and Resell all Three Oracle Operating Systems on their x86 Server Computers

2010-07-30 Thread John Martin
On 07/30/10 04:27 PM, Norbert P. Copones wrote: now... where is mr. morgan of theregister? he just said oracle spikes hp oem contract. hope the contract spiking fud ends here. To be fair to TPM, he did a follow-up story referencing his original "spikes" story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2

Re: [osol-discuss] mplayer + VDPAU + opensolaris = ?

2010-07-22 Thread John Martin
On 07/21/10 06:45 PM, Aleksey Cheusov wrote: I'm certain VDPAU is supported and works. It is part of the performance and regression testing done for each driver release. Hm, it is interesting to know how QA is organized in OpenSolaris. Is this information available online anywhere or entire pro

Re: [osol-discuss] mplayer + VDPAU + opensolaris = ?

2010-07-21 Thread John Martin
On 07/21/10 04:03 PM, Aleksey Cheusov wrote: It is good to know that OpenSolaris supports VDPAU in theory and works for someone. But unfortunately it still doesn't work for me :-(. I'm certain VDPAU is supported and works. It is part of the performance and regression testing done for each driv

Re: [osol-discuss] mplayer + VDPAU + opensolaris = ?

2010-07-20 Thread John Martin
On 07/19/10 07:40 PM, Aleksey Cheusov wrote: mplayer -vo vdpau \ -vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffh264vdpau hd-video.m2ts I found a BDAV sample file (test1.m2ts - Cars trailer) and it plays smoothly with the combination of mplayer built with earlier instructions and NVIDIA

Re: [osol-discuss] mplayer + VDPAU + opensolaris = ?

2010-07-20 Thread John Martin
For media players I always recommend Fluendo before trying to roll your own. Cannot test OS support for SSE, leaving disabled. . When I get some time I will look into the SSE message. See the fix for SSE/SSE2 below in cpudetect.c. Maybe someone could request pushing this to the upstream co

Re: [osol-discuss] mplayer + VDPAU + opensolaris = ?

2010-07-20 Thread John Martin
On 07/20/10 03:09 AM, Aleksey Cheusov wrote: then no. Results are the same. The same jerks and the same CPU Idle time over 80%. In additional while playing nature_704x576_25Hz_1500kbits.h264 mplayer said No pts value from demuxer to use for frame! pts after filters MISSING No pts va

Re: [osol-discuss] NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS on build 134

2010-07-19 Thread John Martin
On 07/19/10 10:25 PM, Doug Poland wrote: Thanks for the info. I checked out the instructions in the URL you supplied and have a follow-up question. How do I get the OS up to build 139? If I only need the new driver 195.36.24, how do I make pkg fetch that particular version? You don't need t

Re: [osol-discuss] mplayer + VDPAU + opensolaris = ?

2010-07-19 Thread John Martin
On 07/19/10 07:40 PM, Aleksey Cheusov wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to setup mplayer with VDPAU on OpenSolaris v_134 on Atom/ION-based Acer Aspire Revo 3600. I've compiled it successfully from source and run the following command mplayer -vo vdpau \ -vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdp

Re: [osol-discuss] NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS on build 134

2010-07-19 Thread John Martin
On 07/19/10 02:44 PM, Doug Poland wrote: I ran pkg image-update and am now running svn_134. Xorg still uses the vesa driver and performance is worse than 2009.06. I did some googling and came across a thread (http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=120352) in which someone suggested t

Re: [osol-discuss] NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS on build 134

2010-07-19 Thread John Martin
On 07/19/10 02:44 PM, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm very new to OpenSolaris but am quite familiar with FreeBSD. I have a box with an NVIDIA G96 GeForce 9500 GS. I installed 2009.06 and the installer choose the Xorg vesa driver. I have a working X desktop but colors and performance are unappea

Re: [osol-discuss] setting proper screen resolution

2010-07-16 Thread John Martin
On 07/16/10 12:20 PM, adidas wrote: here is Xorg.0.log Please help in setting up the proper resolution. You are using build 108 with an ATI Radeon HD 4200. It is falling back to the VESA driver which has restrictions on what resolutions are offered. What happens with build 134? __

Re: [osol-discuss] gcc + tgmath (Paul Floyd)

2010-07-13 Thread John Martin
On 07/13/10 09:53 AM, Stathis Kamperis wrote: Hi tgmath.h is C99, and you're compiling as C89 (-ansi). Try -std=c99 instead of -ansi, or stick to C89 features. Your code might compile on Linux, since on that platform C89, C99, C++ and in fact most standards are all rather a blur. Yes, you ar

Re: [osol-discuss] I think Oracle needs a new name for [Open]Solaris ..

2010-07-07 Thread John Martin
On 07/ 7/10 01:43 PM, Gary wrote: And Oracle is really paying you to scour IBM sites to refute an opinion? http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/79229 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Multithreading X

2010-07-07 Thread John Martin
On 07/ 6/10 10:48 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: But retrofitting a 25-year old multi-million line code base to be completely thread-safe, much less thread-hot, is not a small task. And since we already have GPU's that run 128 or 256 operations in parallel without adding any threads to the core se

Re: [osol-discuss] setting proper screen resolution

2010-06-22 Thread John Martin
On 06/22/10 02:50 PM, Thommy M. Malmström wrote: I am unable to set the proper screen resolution for osol 2009.06. Desktop's screen resolutions are 1024X768, 800X600, etc. But, monitor's actual resolution is 1600X900. monitor make and model is AOC 2036sa monitor's current resolution is 1024X768

Re: [osol-discuss] X58 and i7?

2010-06-15 Thread John Martin
On 06/15/10 05:46 PM, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: You will not be able to install if the DVD is SATA in AHCI mode. Is this specific to the P6T or do you believe it is necessary for all X58/ICH10 motherboards? On my eVGA X58 SLI, the hard drive and DVD are connected to the ICH10 SATA ports and set t

Re: [osol-discuss] X58 and i7?

2010-06-15 Thread John Martin
On 06/15/10 03:29 PM, Stefan Parvu wrote: thx. I was asking if anyone else is running this mobo with OSOL. Does close count? I run my daily operations on a eVGA X58 SLI with i7 980X (previously i7 920) using AHCI for disk access. ___ opensolaris-disc

Re: [osol-discuss] 8 bit PseudoColor visual ?

2010-05-27 Thread John Martin
On 05/27/10 05:06 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: On most graphics cards you will have to choose to either have everything 8-bit or everything 24-bit, not mix both in the same session like some of the old SPARC graphics cards allowed. NVIDIA Quadro cards with Xorg allow tur

Re: [osol-discuss] Using Xinerama with 2 out of 3 monitors?

2010-05-21 Thread John Martin
On 05/21/10 01:37 AM, Ian Collins wrote: With the older GPU I have (a 7900 GTX) Xinerama only works up to 4096 pixels, I have two (rotated) 20" panels flanking a 30" panel. That's 4960 pixels wide. G80 and above supports 8K. GF100 and above supports 16K. ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Using Xinerama with 2 out of 3 monitors?

2010-05-21 Thread John Martin
On 05/20/10 10:23 PM, Ian Collins wrote: [sorry if this appears twice, I sent from the wrong account] Does anyone know if it is possible to combine 2 monitors (on same nVidia card) with Xinerama, while keeping a third as a separate X screen? Twinview isn't an option because one monitor is rotate

Re: [osol-discuss] Dual monitors --- where is xorg.conf?

2010-04-12 Thread John Martin
On 04/12/10 06:49 PM, Ian Collins wrote: On 04/13/10 10:26 AM, bsd wrote: You want something like: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" leftOf "Screen0" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" Option "Xinerama"

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.45.2 seen working ?

2010-04-09 Thread John Martin
On 04/ 9/10 03:45 PM, Guy Woolley wrote: I installed flashplayer from the extra repo, and it didn't work fully (video OK, no audio). I have SUNWmlib installed. What does /usr/bin/audiotest and "/usr/bin/audioctl show-device -v" report? ___ opensolar

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread John Martin
On 04/ 7/10 07:58 PM, bsd wrote: Peace pipe accepted. :-) I set 'console=text' but it still loops. I have also set 'acpi-user-options=2' because otherwise I get a kernel panic. Anything after b129 is problematic for some reason. It's a Toshiba L505D-S5983. Upgrading from b129 on several

Re: [osol-discuss] Mapping physmem in a kernel module

2010-04-05 Thread John Martin
On 04/ 4/10 10:37 PM, Maule Mark wrote: Hi all: Sorry for the newbie question. I’m working on a kernel module which is meant to manage a chunk of physical memory. My intent is to boot the kernel with ‘physmem=’ to limit the physical memory available to the OS, and then use this kernel module to

Re: [osol-discuss] Codeina popup

2010-04-01 Thread John Martin
On 04/ 1/10 08:53 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Whenever I log in, I get a message that there are Codeina updates available for the free mp3 decoder. So I installed the upgrade, but it still still happens every time I log in. If I tell it to install again, it tells me that it's already installed.

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWgmake download

2010-03-27 Thread John Martin
On 03/27/10 06:18 AM, lcd_user wrote: hi, I run the "pkgrm SUNWgmake" command , now I'd like to reinstall that package , can I find it on the net , I'searched on the open solaris but it doesn't contain that package. I've even have a Solaris 10 dvd , If you are using development builds, sta

Re: [osol-discuss] Three heads on GeForce 8600 Video Card

2010-03-18 Thread John Martin
On 03/18/10 05:17 PM, robs wrote: I've got two monitors hooked-up to the DVI ports of a GeForce 8600 video card. Recently moved the computer into the living-room, and want to run my TV off of the s-video port. I've tried numerous different settings, but can only get two heads to work at t

Re: [osol-discuss] MythTV

2010-03-18 Thread John Martin
On 03/18/10 10:20 AM, homerun wrote: Greetings Just asking , is there interest to port MythTV to OpenSolaris. http://www.mythtv.org/ How long will the supported list of video capture cards be useful? The notices I've been receiving from Comcast sound like they are moving to most programming

Re: [osol-discuss] 127 to 134 upgrade woes (gdm)

2010-03-11 Thread John Martin
On 03/11/10 06:27 AM, robs wrote: Well, I tried to upgrade from OpenSolaris 127 to 134, and gdm doesn't start. If I remove the xorg.conf file, my dual monitor setup gets pointers on each monitor, but that's it. There is no mention of any problem relating to this in the 134 notes. I did see t

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop] NVIDIA driver install

2010-03-09 Thread John Martin
On 03/ 9/10 10:23 AM, Jens Richter wrote: j...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg -R /mnt uninstall NVDAgraphics Creating Plan pkg: 'NVDAgraphics' matches no installed packages My previous message mentioned the package name change. The command for b133 and higher is: $ pfexec pkg -R /mnt uninsta

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop] NVIDIA driver install

2010-03-09 Thread John Martin
On 03/ 9/10 04:13 AM, Jens Richter wrote: os b133 Hello I'm a bit in a catch22 situation. For my card - FX 5700LE - I need the 173.14.25 driver. I downloaded the driver from NVIDIA. # sh.run givs me the error, that the NVDAgraphics package can't be uninstalled. Okay, # pfexec pkg uninstall NVDA

Re: [osol-discuss] gcc 4.3 and b134

2010-03-08 Thread John Martin
On 03/ 8/10 02:20 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: Per LSARC/2009/575, the gcc-runtime-432 package is now obsolete and was refactored into the following new packages: developer/gcc/gcc-libgcc developer/gcc/gcc-libgfortran developer/gcc/gcc-libgomp developer/gcc/gcc-libobjc developer/gcc/gcc-libssp dev

[osol-discuss] gcc 4.3 and b134

2010-03-08 Thread John Martin
I upgraded from b133 to b134 using the internal /dev repository. There was a notice it was removing the gcc 4.3.2 packages gcc-432 and gcc-runtime-432. After the upgrade, package manager shows gcc-432 and gcc-runtime-432 as empty packages with a new package gcc-43 which appears to be gcc 4.3.3.

Re: [osol-discuss] Bordeaux 2.0.2 for Solaris and OpenSolaris Released

2010-03-02 Thread John Martin
On 03/ 1/10 06:19 PM, valrh...@gmail.com wrote: ... A quick question on flash player: can you get the beta 10.1b3 release working? The reason that I ask is about GPU acceleration. There is much better GPU acceleration in the Windows version that doesn't appear in Linux (at least) because the v

Re: [osol-discuss] Bordeaux 2.0.2 for Solaris and OpenSolaris Released

2010-02-28 Thread John Martin
On 02/28/10 07:16 PM, valrh...@gmail.com wrote: This will make a subdirectory ./temp/, and you have to edit the ./temp/bordeaux-installer file and change "tar" to "gtar". Then the installer works. The default user environment should have /usr/gnu/bin at the front of PATH. /usr/gnu/bin/ta

Re: [osol-discuss] NVIDIA driver: multiple monitor configuration retention

2010-02-27 Thread John Martin
On 02/27/10 06:54 PM, valrh...@gmail.com wrote: I am running a multiple monitor configuration on my b133 workstation. Using the nvidia-settings control panel, I can set the second monitor up properly (it's detected and set with the proper resolution automatically). However, after reboot, Osol

Re: [osol-discuss] OS b132: Sun C++ cannot compile C++ source due to linker segfault.

2010-02-25 Thread John Martin
On 02/25/10 12:13 AM, William Kucharski wrote: What I see in b133 is this: $ CC test.cc CC: Fatal error in ld: Segmentation Fault (core dumped) ld: fatal: file /opt/sunstudio12.1/prod/lib/crti.o: section [9].rela.annotate has invalid type [ SHT_RELA ] When previously reported, the two wor

Re: [osol-discuss] Point-of-View ION+Atom 330

2010-02-16 Thread John Martin
On 02/16/10 11:35 AM, Patrick wrote: I tried to install a more recent build on that M/B (b131) and the graphics seems to workok, but I get serious problems with the onboard NIC the assigned gani driver could not attach dmesg... [ID 217474 kern.info] gani0: ilr 0x010a [ID 825931 kern.info]

Re: [osol-discuss] OS b132: Sun C++ cannot compile C++ source due to linker segfault.

2010-02-16 Thread John Martin
On 02/16/10 07:49 AM, Karel Gardas wrote: $ CC test.cc CC: Fatal error in ld: Segmentation Fault (core dumped) ld: fatal: file /opt/sunstudio12.1/prod/lib/crti.o: section [9].rela.annotate has invalid type [ SHT_RELA ] is this a known bug or should it be reported somewhere? CR 6823945

Re: [osol-discuss] b132 is out!

2010-02-05 Thread John Martin
For some reason Firefox 3.6 (tar.gz version) won't start in b132 (it worked in b131). Looks like the nightly build was built only against S10? Please this not be the case; so many people have worked so hard on OpenSolaris! The NVIDIA graphics driver is only built on S10. Binary co

Re: [osol-discuss] [laptop-discuss] Toshiba M10 - 111 to 131 upgrade issues - GDM fails, blank screen

2010-02-03 Thread John Martin
I'm happily running on my Tecra M10. I don't know what the circumstances are exactly, but I am definitely not experiencing panics. One model has NVIDIA graphics, the other Intel. This issue is particular to the Intel models. ___ opensolaris-discuss ma

Re: [osol-discuss] Update snv_111b to snv_131 with start problem

2010-02-03 Thread John Martin
On 02/ 3/10 04:12 AM, Heiko Bachmann wrote: Hello community, I hope someone can can give me a good advice to solve my start problem after the update from snv_111b to snv_131 (urgently needed for the VirtualBox USB support). After the update I can only login at the console and found the follow

Re: [osol-discuss] Atom based board, and experiences?

2010-01-29 Thread John Martin
On 01/29/10 07:04 AM, Matthias Pfützner - Principal Field Technologist - Systems Infrastructure Ambassador - Solution Architect wrote: Intel is offering some very low power Atoms, that also have virtualization in them (VT-x), anyone already seen board for/with them, and knows, if OpenSolaris wil

Re: [osol-discuss] Toshiba M10 - 111 to 131 upgrade issues - GDM fails, blank screen

2010-01-25 Thread John Martin
On 01/25/10 08:04 AM, Bruce Porter wrote: I have booted the system into single user and disabled GDM so I can get at any logs that may be needed to help resolve. /var/log/Xorg.0.log[.old] from the b131 BE would be a good start. ___ opensolaris-d

Re: [osol-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Bug 13540 - what are conditions to hit it?

2010-01-23 Thread John Martin
On 01/23/10 11:31 AM, Alexander wrote: Hello. For two builds (130,131) I hit 13540 bug (Xorg dies on gnome-session startup). I couldn't make more sophisticated diagnostics, but all other main gnome processes (gnome-settings-daemon, metacity, nautilus, gnome-panel) may be launched by hand from

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_131 and Intel GM945 - Compiz not working

2010-01-23 Thread John Martin
On 01/23/10 04:26 AM, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: Hi, On snv_131 I get: ... (II) LoadModule: "glx" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/GL/64/libglx.so dlopen: ld.so.1: Xorg: fatal: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/GL/64/libglx.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xo

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-22 Thread John Martin
On 01/22/10 08:36 AM, Bruce wrote: Does anyone know if there is a bug for this already or do I have to speend time searching ? For VTx enabled on M10, there are at least two bugs: // S/R http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6870290 // power-off http://bugs.o

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-21 Thread John Martin
On 01/21/10 05:01 PM, Bruce wrote: I have a different DVD. hmmm, votes for I pull the DVD from the chassis and watch the results ? :-) I would also check the SBIOS settings for hardware virtualization (Virtualization Technology on page 1 - disabled on my M10) and Device Config on page

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-21 Thread John Martin
On 01/21/10 03:12 PM, Bruce wrote: Bruce wrote: 1) Progressivly longer boot times snv_111b 2.5 mins to login snv_128 4.5 mins to login A cold boot test on my M10 running b130: 10:20:40 power on 10:20:52 grub menu first appears 10:21:23 OSOL boot begins 10:22:24 login scree

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-21 Thread John Martin
On 01/21/10 12:14 PM, Anon Y Mous wrote: [*] I do see a S/R problem if virtualization hardware support is enabled in the SBIOS, but this is not the default setting. Yes, but I would think that one of the main reasons for buying a Toshiba laptop with OpenSolaris pre-installed is to run a s

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-21 Thread John Martin
On 01/21/10 10:03 AM, Brian Ruthven - Sun UK wrote: Bruce wrote: 1) Progressivly longer boot times snv_111b 2.5 mins to login snv_128 4.5 mins to login A cold boot test on my M10 running b130: 10:20:40 power on 10:20:52 grub menu first appears 10:21:23 OSOL boot begins 10:22:24

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-21 Thread John Martin
On 01/21/10 05:20 AM, Bruce wrote: Is the M10 going to be the continued supported/sold platform (ok US only I know, but I chose it because of the fact it could be obtained with openSol and is a pretty good box). The Tecra M10 is a supported platform. Your list of problems is puzzling sin

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-13 Thread John Martin
On 01/13/10 07:40 AM, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: 130: could not even see the screen as it was all dark white Which graphics? If NVIDIA and you had previously manually enabled compiz, try the workaround in: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6912450 __

Re: [osol-discuss] nvidia driver not working

2010-01-11 Thread John Martin
On 01/11/10 07:54 AM, Arun Tomar wrote: Hi! I got a new Nvidia card GeForce 9400 GT for my desktop. I installed the driver that i got from the nvidia site and create the xorg.conf file by running the command nvidia-xconfig. Now when i reboot the machine, it shows the progress bar and then the

Re: [osol-discuss] Here's some more info for bugster CR 6913752

2010-01-04 Thread John Martin
On 01/ 4/10 03:50 PM, andrew wrote: OK, I've installed OpenSolaris build 130 on the internal hard drive and suspend to RAM and resume both work absolutely fine with VT extensions disabled. Cool! If your external drive has an option to use a dedicated power supply, it would be useful to kn

Re: [osol-discuss] Here's some more info for bugster CR 6913752

2010-01-04 Thread John Martin
On 01/ 4/10 02:59 PM, andrew wrote: Hmm that's odd. I wonder if it is because I'm booting it off an eSATA hard drive powered from the USB ports. What does "powered" mean? The Tecra M10 has an eSATA port on the left side. ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Here's some more info for bugster CR 6913752

2010-01-04 Thread John Martin
On 01/ 4/10 01:04 PM, andrew wrote: Is your Tecra M10 an OpenSolaris model with the nVidia graphics or the more common variant with Intel graphics? Mine has nVidia graphics and a build 130 install which was image-updated from build 125 doesn't come back up properly from suspend with VT disable

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