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Mike Riley | 1 Jan 19:11
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Re: pcfs card fails to mount - Was Re: Can't restart after installation

Stuart Biggar wrote:
> --- In solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com, Mike Riley <michael.riley@...> wrote:
> 
>> Several pcfs improvements went into build 72 I believe.  This would
> improve 
>> your experience with flash memory drives, etc.  Plus lots of various
> bug 
>> fixes and feature improvements, not all of which would be important
> for a 
>> desktop.  You would have to look at the info on the Solaris Express
> web site 
>> that has all the details.
>>
>> Mike
>>
> 
> Mike,
> 
> pcfs may be improved but I find at least one device that works
> fine in a fully patched install of Solaris 10 Update 4 that
> fails to mount in snv_78.  I have a Hagiware sys-com ExpressCard
> Compact Flash/Microdrive Adapter (HAD-EX5CF01) which works fine
> with a SanDisk Ultra 512 MB CF card in S10U4 (a CDE file manager
> window opens when it is inserted).  I can copy to/from it from
> the command line, etc.  However, in Nevada, it doesn't mount.
> 
> A Lacie USB connected hard disk works fine in both S10U4 and
> snv_78 so it appears the USB stack which the ExpressCard adapter
> uses is working in both S10U4 and snv_78.
>
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rsredy | 1 Jan 20:34
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Re: Can't restart after installation

> Go get a reasonably recent, used NVidia  card (AGP or PCI, based on
> your Motherboard, such as the FX5x00 series or the 6x00)  I can vouch
> for the the FX5200/5500/5700, 6200 and 6600GT cards.  And those cards
> are *worlds* faster than that antique you're using.
> 
> 
I am really not interested in buying anything right now and speed isn't 
an issue while trying to learn Unix. I am going to take a look at 
Linux. (Antiques are welcome there.) It looks like I will be able to 
use the video, lan and audio that is on the MB.

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John Martin | 2 Jan 01:55
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Re: Re: Can't restart after installation

sol11x86 <at> comcast.net wrote:
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> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "rsredy" <rsredy <at> yahoo.com <mailto:rsredy%40yahoo.com>>
> > >
> > > Is this an installation issue, as the last message indicated or post
> > > install?
> > > The nvidia driver has never been used during installation. No nvidia
> > > driver we ever shipped with Solaris should have worked with your card,
> > > unless it did so by accident.
> > >
> >
> > This is an installation issue. The video card in question has the
> > nVidia Riva TNT2 64 chipset. The nVidia Riva TNT2 32 is on the HCL.
> > (See: 
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/components/details/284.html 
> <http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/components/details/284.html>)
>
>
>
>
> .
>

It isn't unsupported, it's just not supported by the 96xx legacy NVIDIA 
driver.
Other people have the Riva TNT2 boards working with the nv driver,
but they seem to be a bit flakey about detecting EDID.  The contents of
/var/log/Xorg.0.log might be useful in debugging this problem.
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Chris Ridd | 2 Jan 16:55
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Re: BrandZ Zones

Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
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> 
> I have a question re: BrandZ Zones. I'm planning on implementing a CentOS
> BrandZ zone in my next server install of Solaris (possibly Nevada). I do see
> that there is a Sun-created CentOS tarball installed image available on
> Opensolaris.org. However, it does not indicate the version of CentOS this
> image is of.
> 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/downloads/ 
> <http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/downloads/>
> 
> I do not want to download a several gigabyte image just to find out it is of
> an outdated version of CentOS. Anyone working in this community please
> advise?
> 
> Many thanks in advance. I'm very excited about the BrandZ Zone features, and
> look forward to trying them out firsthand.

I don't know the answer, but I see that (experimental) support for 2.6 
Linux kernels was added in OpenSolaris b72. I *suspect* that Sun is only 
providing CentOS 3, because that's the only version that Solaris 10 
zones support.

Cheers,

Chris

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John D Groenveld | 2 Jan 17:28
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Re: Re: Audio Installation Help Needed

In message <fl9abd+dg5o <at> eGroups.com>, "rsredy" writes:
>I have installed the OSS4 drivers from opensound.com and I now have
>sound!!! But I do have a strange situation. I have audio out of the MB

Uninstall the OSS drivers and remove the PCI audio cards so
you can test the onboard audio with audio810(7D).

>        Node 0x00000e
>            assigned-addresses:=20
>82002810.00000000.f1800000.00000000.00080000
>            reg:=20
>00002800.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.02002810.00000000.00000000.000=
>00000.00080000
>            compatible: 'pci10de,1b0.1043.c11.c2' +
>'pci10de,1b0.1043.c11' + 'pci1043,c11' + 'pci10de,1b0.c2' +
>'pci10de,1b0' + 'pciclass,040100' + 'pciclass,0401'
>            model:  'Audio device'

# devfsadm -C
# update_drv -a -i '"pci10de,1b0"' audio810
# touch /reconfigure
# init 6

John
groenveld <at> acm.org

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Stuart Biggar | 2 Jan 20:00
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pcfs card fails to mount - Was Re: Can't restart after installation

--- In solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com, Mike Riley <michael.riley@...> wrote:

> Is it showing up in prtconf under snv_78 as a storage device?
> 

Looks like it is recognized as a disk device (prtconf -D):

        pci1014,566, instance #0 (driver name: ehci)
            storage, instance #1 (driver name: scsa2usb)
                disk, instance #1 (driver name: sd)
        pci8086,2448, instance #0 (driver name: pci_pci)

It doesn't automatically mount on /media like the USB hard disk
does.  I can however issue a mount command as root and mount it:

# rmformat -l 
Looking for devices...
     1. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0p0
        Physical Node: /pci <at> 0,0/pci1014,566 <at> 1d,7/storage <at> 7/disk <at> 0,0
        Connected Device: HAGIWARA CF Card Adapter  1.00
        Device Type: Removable
        Bus: USB
        Size: 488.7 MB
        Label: <None>
        Access permissions: Medium is not write protected.
# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0:1 /mnt
# cd /mnt
# ls

ls shows all the directories and files appropriately.
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Mike Riley | 2 Jan 20:26
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Re: pcfs card fails to mount - Was Re: Can't restart after installation

Stuart Biggar wrote:
> --- In solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com, Mike Riley <michael.riley@...> wrote:
> 
>> Is it showing up in prtconf under snv_78 as a storage device?
>>
> 
> Looks like it is recognized as a disk device (prtconf -D):
> 
>         pci1014,566, instance #0 (driver name: ehci)
>             storage, instance #1 (driver name: scsa2usb)
>                 disk, instance #1 (driver name: sd)
>         pci8086,2448, instance #0 (driver name: pci_pci)
> 
> It doesn't automatically mount on /media like the USB hard disk
> does.  I can however issue a mount command as root and mount it:
> 
> # rmformat -l 
> Looking for devices...
>      1. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0p0
>         Physical Node: /pci <at> 0,0/pci1014,566 <at> 1d,7/storage <at> 7/disk <at> 0,0
>         Connected Device: HAGIWARA CF Card Adapter  1.00
>         Device Type: Removable
>         Bus: USB
>         Size: 488.7 MB
>         Label: <None>
>         Access permissions: Medium is not write protected.
> # mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0:1 /mnt
> # cd /mnt
> # ls
>
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Al Hopper | 2 Jan 22:24

Re: BrandZ Zones

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Chris Ridd wrote:

> Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
>>
>>
>> I have a question re: BrandZ Zones. I'm planning on implementing a CentOS
>> BrandZ zone in my next server install of Solaris (possibly Nevada). I do see
>> that there is a Sun-created CentOS tarball installed image available on
>> Opensolaris.org. However, it does not indicate the version of CentOS this
>> image is of.
>>
>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/downloads/
>> <http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/downloads/>
>>
>> I do not want to download a several gigabyte image just to find out it is of
>> an outdated version of CentOS. Anyone working in this community please
>> advise?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance. I'm very excited about the BrandZ Zone features, and
>> look forward to trying them out firsthand.
>
> I don't know the answer, but I see that (experimental) support for 2.6
> Linux kernels was added in OpenSolaris b72. I *suspect* that Sun is only
> providing CentOS 3, because that's the only version that Solaris 10
> zones support.

All of what I describe was done *only* so that I can get an up-to-date 
working copy of Adobe Acrobat!  Loaded the CentOS 3 tar file provided 
on the BrandZ project page on opensolaris.org.  Then I could not get 
the current Adobe reader to install without updated libraries.  Also
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Apostolos Syropoulos | 2 Jan 23:25
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Re: BrandZ Zones

>Yes - all this to (finally) get a working acrobat reader on my 

>desktop!  But it was worth the effort as the lack of a 100% working 

>acrobat is a *daily* irritation. 
OK this is a bit (?) off topic, but with wine I can run without any
problem Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.9.
A.S.

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Stuart Biggar | 3 Jan 00:55
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ExpressCard SATA controller?

I've got a notebook running nevada - it has an ExpressCard
slot.  Anyone know of any ExpressCard Sata controllers that
would work?  One that seems to be based on a supported
SATA chipset is the Addonics device at URL:

http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/adexc34-2e.asp

The "2 Port eSATA ExpressCard 34" is based on the SIL 3132.
I expect that it runs on a PCI-Express version of ExpressCard
rather than the USB.

Any successes with the above or something similar for use
in a Solaris notebook with the drivers included in Nevada?
(the si3124 driver is supposed to work with the 3132 according
to the si3124 man page.)

The above card is not listed at:

http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/vendor/addonics_technologies__inc_.html

but I don't know how up-to-date that is even though it has a 2 Jan 2008
or that it applies to Express.

Thanks,

Stuart

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