Solaris 8 02/02 Scrolling

We have an application that provides a circuit diagram window that is scrollable. We have a diagram that is large and has many crossing lines. This app works fine with Solaris 8 10/01on our Sun Blade 100. When we install Solaris 8 02/02, scrolling this diagram causes the app to terminate and returns us the login window. Any known problems with the 02/02 version? Has anyone else experienced problems in the graphics area?

Power on the system and while the "Initilizing Memory \ " is going hit STOP-A. once this drops you to an ok prompt then enter boot cdrom.

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I've got an application that runs fine on Windows and earlier Solaris versions, but has a problem on Solaris 9. The application has a JTable in a JScrollPane that displays dynamically captured data. In Solaris 9, the table is not repainting properly when scrolling up/down by a row or page. The old information is not erased before writing the new information, so it becomes a big garbled mess when scrolling. When the block is grabbed with the mouse and moved, the table is repainted properly.
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many thanks for your test!
I need to install it in the next couple of weeks so I will keep this issue in mind.
Perhaps you can let the BU to update the ReadMe with this information - otherwise it could result in some frustration when installing it on solaris 9...:-)

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Howdy,
I am having some problem with my installation of Solaris 8 on Intel. I am installing the system on a P133 (Asus TX97 motherboard). When I first start the installation and perform the system scan I get the following error:
The PnP ISA: IDE Controller programable device was unable to be programmed.
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- Lack of resouces available
- There is a conflict with the following already-existing device: 8086,7111 - Bus Mastering IDE Controller
When I bring up the View/Edit device settings and I scroll to the IDE controller there is an ! mark beside the PCI IDE controller. The controler is specifying: Bus 0, device: 1, function: 1 port 1F0-1F7, 3F6, 170-177, 376, E000-E00F, 0 IRQ 14, 15
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When I close down Solais in the CDE I am taken back to the logon screen
and I turn the PC off.Don't do that. If you simply turn off the PC, the OS has no chance to
write back cached / modified disk data back to the HDD - this is also the
reason why solaris has to check the filesystems on the next boot and apparently
has to repair filesystem defects.
What you have to do is shutdown the machine, before you can power it off.
Login as user "root" and use the command
init 5
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halt
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state it's safe to power off the machine!
"halt" is a quick-and-dirty shutdown. It does not stop system services (the
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No scrolling when viewing man pages with Gnome terminal?

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I have just installed Oracle Solaris 11 on x86. For a long time I've used Solaris 9 on SPARC. I like the new OS, but I'm having a problem viewing man pages with Gnome terminal. When I view a long man page, e.g., "man newfs", I don't get a functional scroll bar on the right hand side of the window. And although the space bar works to advance the page, when I reach the end, it doesn't return to the command prompt. It just beeps, prints "END", and I can only exit by closing the window. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Suggestions would be much appreciated.
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Chris Tidy

It does sound like you're using "less" instead of more. When you see the "(END)" prompt you can simply type "q" and it will exit back to the command line prompt making it unnecessary to close the window. See the "less" manual page for more detail on the less command. Under Solaris 9 the paging was done with the "more" command. If you set the PAGER environment variiable to "more" the man page will use more and revert to the behavior you'd be used to with Solaris 9. Less erases the text you've already read when you type that final "q" which is a behavior I don't like. I didn't bother to determine if there is a way to fix that with less, I just went back to more. The choice between "more" and "less" is a personal preference.

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Nullvision,
Please accept my apologies for hyjacking your thread.
BTW: Assume the version to install is b72 for X86 !
(caused confusion with (!), it should have been:
Q to Nullvision: Assume the version you installed was b72 for X86 ? )
Richard,
Thanks for your reply. I was not looking for Athlon support, but indeed wanted to know if it works.
I'm aware that this Solaris Express is still a work (of art) in progress, but before asking Santa (= my wallet) for a new MoBo, I wanted to have this so called gray area demistyfied.
As you say, by default, solaris will boot/install 64 bit, regardless of the type of AMD64 processor used !
Therefore the bootstring earlier reported could have helped someone to get his machine booting, but is in a normal situation not needed by default.
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Mary
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This will not work. We have not built the native libraries to work with
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I suggest trying the platform independent type 4 JDBC driver available for
free from Oracle. It is supported (as is any JDBC driver) with WebLogic
Server. To download it:
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From the resulting page, scroll down a little (since SQLJ stuff appears at
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Solaris on Intel..
I suggest trying the platform independent type 4 JDBC driver available for
free from Oracle. It is supported (as is any JDBC driver) with WebLogic
Server. To download it:
Go to http://www.oracle.com and select the "Download" option.
From the resulting page, use the "Select Utility or Driver" dropdown to
select Oracle JDBC drivers
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http://technet.oracle.com/software/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/software_index.htm
Thanks,
Michael
Michael Girdley
BEA Systems Inc
"Dean Davis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:3a267487$[email protected]..
has anyone been able to get Oracle's client 8.1.5 running on Solaris x86in conjunction with WLS to talk to back-end Oracle? Any help would be
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TIA
Scott
Edited by: Bad2theBone on May 30, 2008 10:37 AM

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Audio; Intel 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller
Other; ACPI AC Device
Anyone know if and when VBox or OpenSolaris will have these drivers?
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Installation guide Solaris 10 / Oracle

Hi,
I have been looking for updated installation guides for Solaris 10 / Oracle 10 on service.sap.com/erp-inst and other locations, but I can only find relevant documentation from February 2005. Does any one know where I can get more updated information?
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Regards,
Thomas Kjelsrud

Thomas,
I was able to access the same. May be you missed to scroll down the page..
No issues access the below link
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I have an issue with the PDF tabs opened in Mozilla, We use Solaris 10 s10s_u4wos_12b SPARC and Adobe Reader 7 for Solaris.
When a PDF file is open in Mozilla Firefox, the PDF tab appear to be locked. The PDF file can be seen and scroll up and down but navigation to other tabs is not possible.
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Hello John,
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When your tab is locked, do you have a dialog box opened on that tab? If possible, could you share a screenshot of the problem at the time the tab is locked.
Thanks,
Gaurav

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