Open Questions
These are questions that remain unanswered on blogs and in the forums. See the thread Can Solaris be discussed here? for more on this topic.
| Question | Source |
|---|---|
| Any progress on ... function key fixes for both X11 and the console? | OpenSolaris 2008.05 Meet the MacBook Pro |
| Any reason why Netbeans 6.1 is not in the IPS yet? | OpenSolaris 2008.05: Installing NetBeans 6.1 |
| Can anyone help me, please? | OpenSoloaris LiveCD hangs during boot |
| Where is xenbr0? | xvm and software bridge |
| Suggest to me what can I do? | Problem while installing solaris 10 |
| Is there some way to get functioning drivers installed (from USB key, say) after I've got the LiveCD booted up or some way to change the configuration of an already-running (LiveCD-based) system and have it retry? | SiS900 Ethernet and OpenSolaris 2008.05 |
| Any suggestions on what might be done to make things work as they should? | Keyboard not recognized |
| Is it possible to install OpenSolaris without touching the master boot record or using GRUB? | Install without GRUB |
| How do I remove device mapper leftovers? | How to remove device mapper leftovers |
| Any ideas? | Shutdown hangs |
|
"Unable to boot" after regular shutdown |
| So, how am I supposed to fix this? | Trouble with sound on DELL OPTIPLEX 745 with INTEL audio hardware. |
| Does anyone know where I can get the needed driver? | No network driver? |
| How do I clone to multiple machines? | Clone to multiple machines?? |
| Should I disable SADA? If so, how is that done? Is the unknown codec the problem or is it SADA? | Sound Problems |
| Can anyone confirm what the knock-on effects of using this switch are? | Live CD install freezes with blank screen on Toshiba Sattelite Pro A10 |
| Are these cards "ever" going to be supported on Solaris anything ? | RAIDCore cards and OpenSolaris supported drivers ? |
| How do I fix my Device Driver Utility? | Device Driver Utility fails to launch |
| Was there a opensolaris pkg that was trying to access the sound device previously that needed to be uninstalled first ? | no audio Intel HDA |
| How do I get OpenSolaris to recognize my audio output jack? | intel hda audio jack sense |
| Does anyone have a suggestion on fixing this issue? | Probing for device nodes |
| How do I get my USB port to work? | USB port is not working |
| what should I do? | Error 11: Unrecognized device string? |
| Why does my install from Live CD Fail? | Boot from LiveCD click Install openSolaris and the Install window close |
| Any ideas why that happened? This would cause power saving problems, right? | Installation Trouble |
| Any suggestions? | booting the live CD with qemu? |
| How do I resolve this without building a 64 bits gcc library? | Where is the x64 gcc library? Where are all the x64 installable packages? |
| What do I need to do to get rid of this annoying behaviour? | Tcl man pages all over the place |
| Is there any way to remove leaf/orphan packages, i.e. those not required by any other package && not explicitly installed ever? | any way to remove leaf packages? |
| Any ideas on how to fix this? | Make Error when building from source |
| Any ideas? | system crash on boot after update using ips help? advise? solution? |
| But, I'm running 2008.5 only, how do I update the packages to nevada build 91? | Trouble installing SUNWxwinc |
| I'm new to OpenSolaris and I would like to know what package provides the arping utility? | arping package |
| Could anyone please answer what this package is? | What's SUNWfixes package? |
| Does anyone have an idea what packages are missing and how to complete my installation? | Missing header files (Studio 12) |
| Can anybody help me to solve this problem? | How to transform SVR4 package to IPS |
| Has anyone experienced brandz on OpenSolaris? | Run Linux Binaries |
| There is a way to analyze installed by installation date ? or to remove package no longer needed ? | remove not needed packages |
| Any ideas? | xvnc error messages on boot |
| Any advice? | Qt4.4 compilation error |
| Any word on whether they are working on moving some of the proprietary bits to fully open so that the "full" virtualbox can be provisioned via IPS without licensing hassle? | IPS pkg.opensolaris.org providing Sun xVM VirtualBox soon? |
| Is it possible to compile it from source? | Installing inkscape |
| Where I fonund the icon? | Menu entries don't appear for new applications in Gnome menu |
| How can I find this package dependency? | Installing VLC |
| Do you guys/gals think this, or similar will really happen soon ? | OpenSolaris Hardware related ? |
| So, after migration from SXDE to Open we are left without a possibility to write in Latvian? | keyboard layouts |
| Anyone been able to get either of the above working on Opensolaris and happy to outline how they did it? | Eclipse Europa (3.3) or Ganymede (3.4 milestones)? |
| How can I start GNOME again? | After a few days, Gnome won't start. Here is logfile |
| Is there some performance tweaks that can be made to make OpenSolaris more resource friendly? | Performance Tweaks? (for older machines) |
| Any input on the mysteries of GRUB with ZFS? | GRUB Not Finding It's Config File |
| any help or suggestions? | 2008 Active Directory and OpenSolaris |
| Can anyone suggest a WIFI PC card (PCMCIA) compatible with OpenSolaris? | Hardware issue |
| There are downloads available from http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/windmill/, but will any of those do me any good on a system like this where OpenSolaris is unable to provide even basic power management? | No ACPI driver - any recourse? |
| Does anyone know of any restrictions on using BFU to update the new 2008.05 version? I | BFU 2008.05 ? |
| Does anyone know how to increase the maximum transfer size using the STREAMS interface on Sun platforms (sparc and i386) with Solaris 10? I believe the default is 64K, what is the maximum? | STREAMS maximum transfer size |
| Does anything neutralize the notification ? | Running background processes, notification lost ! |
| Anyone have any pointers? | Boot Environment not Active After Reboot |
| Now is there any way IO can exploit ZFS when I create that first zone so that it clones the ZFS root instead of cpio'ing all the files from root that it's going to use? | Creating whole root zones while using minimal disk space |
| Is there any solution to this? | Applications have no DNS |
| Anybody? | DLPI link does not exist |
| Wouldn't it be possible to NFS (or CIFS/SMB) share filesystems between the virtualized OS and the host OS? | Sharing Folders |
| who cares about colors!? | ls colors |
| I added a user using the user admin tool. How do I give the new user permission to turn off the machine? I tried the shutdown permission, but when I log in as the new user, I get a dialog box saying I need the gnome-suspend-perm or something like that. | Added a user... |
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