Hi All,
So I took the Acer Aspire One 10" and installed or company VPN software.
Jumped into the network and followed the instructions.
NWAM Phase 1 Early Access looks really good, it's got more buttons and whistles than I expected.
I'm really going to have to test it some more, but it looks really cool, I'll have to build some profiles, see how it really configures.
Looks like you cannot use it with the panel Network Monitor, the "Track system active interface" switch does not want to work.
Hi All,
So it's been interesting since I got back from vacation.
I received a large military laptop to test with Solaris 10 X86, I've actually never seen a laptop with so much hardware capability or BIOS settings, Solaris 10 X86 was a stretch but I did get it working, video was never going to work up to it's full potential.
I did throw Nevada B125 at it, 1680 x 1050 and Compiz, Core 2 Duo processor, pretty cool piece of hardware.
I've been testing Fedora 11 on the Acer One 11.6", it's got the new Imagination Technologies PowerVR video chip, I'm trying to work out how to prove I use the H.264 HD decoder in the hardware not software.
I still have not found an open Xorg driver for this video, only Fedora, Ubuntu and Windows support as far as I can tell.
This video is also on the Intel CE4100 SOC, the Always Innovating TouchBook (I've ordered one) and the beagleboard (on the way).
I want to see if I can build a touchscreen system, that has a JavaFX desktop and will play HD content.
I've also just installed Intel Moblin on the Acer Aspire One 10", it truly is an amazing piece of work, did the install with no issues at all.
I must be getting old, I really don't like the interface at all, don't get me wrong the work is outstanding, it's just personal preference. The interface is really very pretty, I think if it was the first GUI I have used it would be very intuitive.
I'm upgrading all the netbooks to OpenSolaris 1002 B125, I just noticed it's actually Gnome 2.28.
I've been playing with changing the icon themes, creating ~/.icons, then downloading different icone themes from this web site.
If you download the tar.gz file into ~/.icons, then gtar xvfz the tar file, you can see the new icon theme in desktop appearance.
I've been experimenting with creating my own theme, Daves-icon-mix, everything comes from the index.theme in the directory.
The Inherits line causes the system to look for an icon called for by the application in this order, if it cannot find it in the selected theme, works in real-time, if you change the order with your favorite editor and then save, you will see the icons change on the screen.
You can also download cursor themes from this web site and install in .icons.
If you want them system wide put them in /usr/share/icons
When you create a directory called default in ~/.icons and an index.theme, see example you can set the default cursor to use on login.
Have fun
Dave
~/.icons/default
[Icon Theme]
Inherits=ComixCursors-Orange-Small
~/.icons/Dave_icon_mix
[Icon Theme]
Name=Daves_icon_mix
Comment=
Inherits=Mashup,GNANT,hydroxygen,AquiGNOME,Ultimate Gnome, hicolor,JiniBlueSky,gartoon,blendedcrystal,Kamel,Tango,gnome,nuoveXT.2.2,Vista-Inspirate_1.0,OSX,ClearlooksOSX
Example=x-directory-normal
Directories=16x16/emblems,128x128/actions,128x128/apps,128x128/categories,128x128/devices,128x128/devices,128x128/emblems,128x128/mimetypes,128x128/places,128x128/status
[16x16/emblems]
Size=16
Context=Emblems
Type=Fixed
[128x128/actions]
Size=128
Context=Actions
Type=Scalable
[128x128/apps]
Size=128
Context=Applications
Type=Scalable
[128x128/categories]
Size=128
Context=Categories
Type=Scalable
[128x128/devices]
Size=128
Context=Devices
Type=Scalable
[128x128/emblems]
Size=128
Context=Emblems
Type=Scalable
[128x128/places]
Size=128
Context=Places
Type=Scalable
[128x128/mimetypes]
Size=128
Context=MimeTypes
Type=Scalable
[128x128/status]
Size=128
Context=Status
Type=Scalable
[192x192/actions]
Size=192
Context=Actions
Type=Scalable
[192x192/apps]
Size=192
Context=Applications
Type=Scalable
[192x192/categories]
Size=192
Context=Categories
Type=Scalable
[192x192/devices]
Size=192
Context=Devices
Type=Scalable
[192x192/emblems]
Size=192
Context=Emblems
Type=Scalable
[192x192/places]
Size=192
Context=Places
Type=Scalable
[192x192/mimetypes]
Size=192
Context=MimeTypes
Type=Scalable
[192x192/status]
Size=192
Context=Status
Type=Scalable
Hi All,
Back from vacation in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, we visited my stepson and his wife, plus the two grand daughters.
Both of them a veterinarians, my stepson is a Professor at Guelph University, he is a specialist in dermatology for horses.
We took a ride to MarineLand in Niagara Falls, one of the walrus has a eye infection.
They took us through the back of the park, we got to meet the dolphins and the walrus, for a baby, he is pretty large, looks just like Jaba the Hut from Star Wars.
This is the whole family with one of the dolphins, I've never got this close before.
They actually kept beaching themselves on the ledge to the pool, so the trainers could push them off, it was a really funny to watch an animal that can leap 25 feet out of the water, have fun falling an inch, maybe they just liked getting a human to do a trick for a change.
Hi All,
Well I finally upgraded the Asus C90S to Nevada B124 from B116.
The speed improvement in incredible, Compiz 3D cube is coming up without any pause.
Playing a movie in Mplayer, then spinning the cube just shows the movie playing without issues.
It's got the Gnome 2.27 desktop, pretty cool, 2.28 should be in B125.
I've found a funny with rhythmbox and removable media, if I have any plugged in it crashes, have not had time to really look at the code yet.
Maybe it's the same issue with Songbird that will not come up.
This is my last Nevada laptop, everything else is on OpenSolaris 1002 B123.
Up to Canada next week for vacation with Grandkids, my big problem is I cannot work out which netbook to take, bad problem.
Hi All,
So I've taken my knowledge of Solaris X86 and OpenSolaris just about as far as I can at this time.
Today I start learning Java.
I'll blog about it and you can correct me.
This should be fun, I've been putting it off for awhile.
Hi All,
So I wanted to test the Intel Poulsbo chipset with OpenSolaris to see if it was a solution to a fan less embedded product.
I could not find a cheap motherboard with the chipset, on my weekend trip to CostCo, they had the Acer Aspire One 11.6" netbook for $278, what a deal.
Frys has the 2Gb 250Gb HD model for $379
Walmart is $348 for the same as I have.
I just wanted to test the chipset :-)
Anyway it has the Intel Poulsbo chipset that looks like it has a video controller from
http://www.imgtec.com/
This is a good writeup on the Intel Poulsbo chipset
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3276&p=16
Anyway, no 2D or 3D video driver for Xorg, the usb is really weird, keeps pushing the cursor into the top left corner.
RealTek Ethernet and Atheros wifi work.
I'd decided to change out the mini pci-e wifi for an 802.11n one, boy did I get a shock when I opened the hatch in the bootom on the wifi card looks like half a postage stamp.
Found a 802.11n same size on Ebay.
I did my standard install with Windows 7, just took 1/3 of disk for C drive, then created an 80 Gb what I thought was FAT32 partition, it came up as exFAT, OpenSolaris cannot month this.
Changed it back to FAT32 with Paragon Partition Manager 10.0 Personal Edition.
It said it did a format in place, there went my iTunes folder, Pictures and Videos.
Thank goodness I have the Maxtor OneTouch Mini 4 backup USB hard drive :-)
So I have the Acer One, looks like Panasonic has a ToughBook with Poulsbo.
How many other netbook type devices exist with the Poulsbo chipset ?
Is it even worth pushing engineering to get an Xorg driver for this video ?
Hi All,
So I've been looking into this some more.
The issue is with the windows folder "My Documents", having a space in the directory name.
The terminal command chmod is not handling it the same as nautilus.
If I create a directory with Windows 7 "My_Documents" then it does come up with read / write permissions correctly at mount time.
So now I have to put the "_" character in all my Windows directories, change all the Windows programs to find "My_Documents" and My Pictures, and My Music and My Videos.
Dave
Hi All,
I've been working on the B122 OpenSolaris Acer One 10", I have Windows 7 Ultimate installed on the first partition, FAT32 in the middle and ZFS at the end.
I mount the FAT32 partition via /etc/vfstab during boot.
My Documents is coming up in read only mode.
If I try to do a chmod -R 777 /shared_fat32/Daves/My\ Documents nothing happens.
If I bring up nautilus and change the properties to read / write and apply to all sub folders, it actually does it.
I can now create files in My Music, My Pictures, etc.
Wish I could work out why ?
Dave
Hi All,
So I have gotten the Windows 7 boot loader to work.
With Windows 7 running I went into control panel, system, create and format hard disk partitions.
I set the Windows 7 partition as active.
On the reboot only Windows 7 comes up.
I downloaded and installed Easy BCD.
The second tab in Easy BCD allows you to create a Linux grub boot entry in the Windows 7 boot menu.
When I restart I have the Windows 7 boot menu with two entries, Windows 7 and OpenSolaris.
Selecting OpenSolaris then gives you the standard OpenSolaris grub boot menu.
Dave
Hi All,
For anyone who has built Evolution 2.27.90+ , you may have found that the signatures don't stick to email account through restarts.
They have just posted a patch in bugzilla
Bug 593872 - Evolution forgets which signatures are assigned to which accounts
I've patched my system and it works.
diff --git a/e-util/e-signature.c b/e-util/e-signature.c
index 1b22dba..2d8da48 100644
--- a/e-util/e-signature.c
+++ b/e-util/e-signature.c
@@ -445,8 +445,13 @@ e_signature_set_from_xml (ESignature *signature, const gchar *xml)
return FALSE;
}
- if (!signature->priv->uid)
- xml_set_prop (node, "uid", &signature->priv->uid);
+ buf = NULL;
+ xml_set_prop (node, "uid", &buf);
+
+ if (buf && *buf) {
+ g_free (signature->priv->uid);
+ signature->priv->uid = buf;
+ }
changed |= xml_set_prop (node, "name", &signature->priv->name);
changed |= xml_set_bool (node, "auto", &signature->priv->autogenerated);
Hi All,
So as I did a full reinstall of OpenSolaris 1002 B122, I decided to install Windows 7 over the Windows XP Home also.
I sliced the disk into three partitions:
0 NTFS 40Gb - Windows 7
1 FAT32 40Gb
2 ZFS 50Gb - OpenSolaris
I placed my iTunes folder in the FAT32 partition.
I mount the FAT32 partition to a directory in OpenSolaris during boot.
I modified the /etc/vfstab file adding this line:
/dev/dsk/c9t0d0p2 - /shared_fat32 pcfs - yes -
It's interesting how OpenSolaris has a larger channel number than SXCE.
After building the faac, faad and mp3 plugins, I can actually see and play the iTunes songs from OpenSolaris rhythmbox.
Now I just have to go into the Windows side if I need to buy music from Apple.
Dave
Hi All,
So it's taken about a week now, I've moved all the netbooks I have off SXCE to OpenSolaris 1002 B121.
I have the MSI Wind U100, Acer Aspire One 8' and 10" with clean installs.
So from now on I just have to say OpenSolaris not Nevada.
Only issue I really had was the Attansic controller on the AA10, I already had the SUNWatge package from B123 and just added it.
I've been doing the installs of USB sticks which is really much better than having to attach an external USB drive.
I've been working with an external laptop Blu Ray device that I picked up of EBay for about $50.
It's working really good on a desktop, I was hoping one day to add it to my Asus C90S one day and play Blu Ray movies.
Dave
Hi All,
So I miss spoke about B122 working perfectly on the Acer Aspire One 10" with Nevada B122.
I found out I could not print via CUPS to a Windows printer using the ATGE 2.6.5 driver, but could print over wifi.
The Sun developer had just finished the SUNWatge package for inclusion in Nevada B123, you know me always up for testing anything new :-)
We have been having some issues on B122 for the last day, thanks to Saurabh Mishra http://saurabhslr.blogspot.com/, we traced my issues with not being able to get the interface to come up back to the Adlink Gigabit switches I have in the lab, once I moved the cable to a Netgear Gigabit switch everything started to work.
I can even print to Windows via CUPS again.