[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

[Jake]

On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:34 PM, "Alex Lam S.L." <alexlamsl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Jake <jak3kaj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:23 PM, "Alex Lam S.L." <alexlamsl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Christopher Chan
>>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 05:11 PM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> The only quirks I've read into so far is the device driver for Intel
>>>>> AMT (which I don't use anyway), and the occasion freeze of the Gnome
>>>>> desktop. As for the latter - how should I recover from it? My gut
>>>>> feeling is that it is triggered by graphic updates on the desktop, and
>>>>> Ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn't seem to help other than making the whole screen go
>>>>> blank. The rest of the system (e.g. DNS server) is still functional,
>>>>> though.
>> See if the later Nvidia driver helps with the lockups.
>> 
>> See: https://www.illumos.org/issues/1127
>> 
> 
> They mentioned the driver being put into "dev-il repo" - is that not
> the default repository when I run the Package Manager under OI-151?
> 
> 
> Alex.

Yes, the repo was updated again and it was not revved. There was a discussion in the weekly meeting about that practice and going forward someone suggested to append a build letter to the release number. 

If you do another pkg image-update you should get the new Nvidia driver. 

> 
>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> :(
>>>> 
>>>> I suggest installing KDE from the KDE repo.
>>>> 
>>>> More pain :(
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> On the OpenIndiana wiki page it seems to suggest KDE 4.6.4:
>>> 
>>> http://wiki.openindiana.org/display/oi/oi_151
>>> 
>>> I will have a look and see if I can get it off the default repository tomorrow.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Alex.
>>> 
>>> 
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