Demo: Netbeans for the desktop

Gave a tech demo for Netbeans today explaining it's neat set of features.

The link to the slide is here. The collaboration data sheets are here and here. The GUI (matisse) sheet is here. And the profiler sheet is here.

Now to the questions:

A good tutorial for netbeans is at http://www.functionx.com/java/Lesson01.htm

The instructions for registering for the online training and the certification tests are at this orkut page. You have to go here to register and use the training..

I think that covers most of it. If I've left out any queries, do leave a comment and I'll get back.

Posted by anilg [Solaris] ( April 12, 2007 07:56 PM ) Permalink | Comments[2]

Livemedia presentation

Forgot to mention in the earlier post. I took part in the paper presentation event in Continuum 07 and won the third place. My talk was on Encrypted Livemedia on Opensolaris.

Posted by anilg [Solaris] ( April 01, 2007 06:48 PM ) Permalink | Comments[2]

Install Fest

Conduct an install fest today (Well yesterday, but its early morning now)

We had 20 PCs in our SUN Lab. the interest was apparent as around 70 guys turned up into the Lab, and every body had to sit down for the initial talk about partitions and slices.

The usual warnings were given:

*Never let the install create the FDISK partition by itself. Manually delete an existing partition and create an FDISK one in its place

*Check media before installation. You don't want to go halfway and then repent.

*Not down any linux menu.lst entries before you proceed (We didn't have the need to do this)

The fest was a success except for the disaster on 3 PCs that we lost Windows on. Turns out these three had the whole disk on just a single partition and the Windows there was overwritten by solaris. The guys just went along with the instruction to delete an available partition and create an FDISK.

 

We next ran into problems with display. This has been a fairly usual issue with Solaris in many places that I've installed it. Upon the first boot, you go to the ********** Starting Desktop ******** step followed by a blank screen (or an Out-of-Frequency message).

This indicates that the device was not properly detected. The work around is fairly simple. You need a working copy of xorg.conf . I do this by booting up BeleniX and copying its xorg.conf to the hard disk install. The ufs partition is automatically mounted at /mnt/solaris0(or 1,2,3,... as the case may be).

Check through these directories (or the output of df -h) and recognize the root file system) you specifically want to find the directory which contains the 'etc' directory. I found it on /mnt/solaris4

Next open up a terminal and issue the command

 

 

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /mnt/solaris4/etc/X11/

 

Then reboot the PC, and your display is back :)

Want to doze off now. To the guys who participated: Thanks for turning up and help install solaris. If you have any queries drop me comment here, or a mail. I'll get back ASAP.

Now back to sleep and nightmares about the ghosts of the 3 dead Windows installs.
 

 

Posted by anilg [Solaris] ( March 16, 2007 04:43 AM ) Permalink | Comments[3]

OpenSolaris Starter kits

Get a Free OpenSolaris Kit!

Register here
 

Posted by anilg [Solaris] ( March 06, 2007 02:24 PM ) Permalink | Comments[1]

Sound on Solaris

Remember when you installed solaris. It was quite.. really quite. Wasnt it?

Ok maybe not for you, you have that soundblaster sound card, supported out-of-box.

But the less fortunate of us have an intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) card. Now if you happen to wander accidentally to http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check.html, you’ll scroll down and see some o/p like:

Note that the 3rd line from below. That card ain't supported .. And that’s my card

================================================================================
Generating reports…

Vendor Device: Type Name Solaris Driver: 32BIT 64BIT
——————————————————————————–
nVidia Corpora… V NV43 [Geforce Go 6600TE/6200TE] Y Y
Marvell Techno… N 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Contro… T-1 N
Intel Corporation U 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) U… Y Y
Intel Corporation U 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) U… Y Y
Intel Corporation U 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) U… Y Y
Intel Corporation U 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) U… Y Y
Intel Corporation U 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) U… Y Y
Intel Corporation N PRO/Wireless 2200BG N N
Texas Instruments O PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller Y Y
Texas Instruments F OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller Y Y
Intel Corporation M 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) A… N N
Intel Corporation O 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) A… N N
Intel Corporation S 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller Y Y

Driver Notes:
Y - Solaris Driver Found; T - Third Party Driver; N - No Solaris Driver
Device Types:
V - Video; N - Network; S - Storage; M - Multimedia; U - USB; F - Firewire;
O - Other;

================================================================================

So how did I get sound on my box?

goto http://www.tools.de/solaris/audio/beta/ , download the 1.9b sound driver, and pkgadd it as explained at the site.

You still wont have sound. Give a
#update_drv -a -i ‘”pci8086,266e”‘ audioi810
(yes thats a single quote, double quote, pci…, double quote, single quote)

Restart and sound away to glory.

A thanks goes out to Juergen Keil for the drivers and his help in getting it working on my box.

Posted by anilg [Solaris] ( February 25, 2007 09:04 PM ) Permalink | Comments[3]