Solaris 8 and OpenWindows - supported?

Does anyone know if OpenWindows works OK under Solaris 8?
I have it installed on an Ultra 5 (360Mhz, 128Mb Ram, 8Gb HDD) and it runs CDE with no problem. However, if I try to start OpenWindows it gets partly to the GUI, but then displays an error which quickly then disappears and drops me back to the non-GUI command prompt! Unfortuneately I can't actually read the error before it disappears.
I have a standard installation, with patches up to 108528-10 kernel..
If possible I need to get OW working under v8 because our current upgrade path is trying to avoid switching to CDE if possible (not liked by many of my colleagues!)
Any help appreciated, thx...

We have a situation where we run OpenWindows on all systems, so replacement kit at the moment will need to run it. Obviously I'm looking at the migration to Gnome, or whatever is recommended for Sol8/9, but my hands are tied currently!
I didn't find any useful info in the /usr/dt or ~/.dt directories unfortuneately, apart from a previous CDE session info which went OK - nothing about aborted OW attempts!
The installation is a fairly straightforward Sol8 one, it did have Answerbook and Adminsuite running, but I've disabled those for the time being, and it still bombs out once the desktop is loaded.
Very frustrating! Any further ideas?

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Does Solaris 8 IA support USB modems? And if so, what do I have to do to make Solaris talk to my modem using the USB connector?
Thank you!
Dirk

I don't think they do, but check the Hardware Compatibility Lists to make sure.

Solaris 9 IPSec support

I am currently attempting to activate IPSecurity on Solaris and I am having a host of issues. I am hoping someone on the forums have done this before.
Here are the steps that I have figured out:
1) Create Certificates and add them into the database: I am fairly certain that this has been done correctly since when the in.iked daemon comes up it reads in my CA certificate and my server certificate that I have created.
2) Edit the /etc/inet/ike/config file. I have edited this file but there is an odd thing here. Looking at the man page it says that I should be able to do use AES for the phase 1 SA. However when I use the key word for the aes it tells me it is an error. <Question> Is the AES support only on 10? Is there away I can tell the version of the in.iked daemon I am working with?
3) Activate the in.iked server with the config file. I have done this and used the -p2 -d options so I can see the log file that goes with it.
4)Update the /etc/inet/ipsec.init file: I have done this but here is another instance that things do not make sense. I create a phase 2 proposal devoid of all encryption algorithms and the default one came up. It only had AES and Blowfish. There was no Triple DES option available even though in the man page is there. <question> how do I get the version number of the ipsecconf command.
5)I then use the ipsecconf command to suck in the ipsec.init profile. I have done this successfully with AES and can do a list display.
Usage<<<< I attempt to run a traffic from my solaris to my partner machine that matches the phase 2 traffic descriptors however when the traffic arrives it is not encrypted and the solaris did not attempt to negotiate a tunnel.
When I attempt to initiate a VPN from the other side all I get is parameter mismatch on the Solaris side however the parameters that I have configured all seem to match.
<Questions>
1) Is there some better messages available above -p2 -d
2) Is there a way to initiate a phase 1 negotiation on the SA. ikeadm command does not seem to have that.
3) Is there a service that I have to activate to start the IPSecurity pieces?

http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t2000/specs.xml
no.
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Solaris 10 & Hardware Support

I understand that Linux depends on the communities support to develop drivers for hardware that isn't supported by the manufacturer. How does Solaris stand with support from manufactures, and support from Sun or popular manufactures. I'd like to install Solaris 10 on my x86 desktop, but if it can't support my nForce video chip then there isn't much of a question that I would stick with Linux.
Is it possible, specifically for an nForce video chip, to get just video that doesn't necessarily take advantage of graphic acceleration?
Since nVidia is partnered with Sun to bring some of their high-end cards to Solaris, should we expect to see some of their other hardware supported also?
I'm curious about other hardware as well, such as Ethernet cards, or sound cards. Is it really feasable to run Solaris on a desktop PC, or does it need to be dedicated Solaris machine that was built from the ground up with support in mind because supported hardware is so scarce?

The answer isn't easy to find, because the breadth of the
problem is wide.
As I write, I'm on an Athlon-64 running a NVidia nForce3
250 Gb chipset. Does it work? Yes. Does everything work?
No. There are some parts of the chipset which don't have
Solaris drivers yet. Unfortunately, NVidia also keeps their
driver source close and even for Linux they don't release
the source code. In my case, neither the network nor audio
drivers are available. It may be difficult to get the Solaris drivers
ported unless NVidia does the work. AFAICT, that is not
part of the Sun/NVidia announcement, though I'd be happy
to be proved wrong.
A number of sound cards do have drivers. On this machine,
the NVidia audio driver is not recognized, but I have an iMic
USB audio dongle that seems to work well.
For Ethernet, I have an old Rhine-based card (D-Link). A
driver for this, including the needed 64-bit amd64 driver :-),
is a available from
http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/
Some other vendors offer Solaris drivers directly, so you'll
find some have more support than others.
-- richard

Whether the solaris 11 is support gb2312?

Hi all,
I use this command in solaris 11
iconv -l
The following are all supported code set names. All combinations
of those names are not necessarily available for the pair of the
fromcode-tocode. Some of those code set names have aliases, which
are case-insensitive and described in parentheses following the
canonical name:
GB18030 (GB18030, GB-18030, GB_18030, GBK, zh_CN.gb18030, zh_CN.gbk)...
i use this command in solaris 10
iconv -l
canonical name:
zh_CN.euc (GB2312, GB-2312, GB_2312, EUC-CN, EUC_CN, eucCN), zh_CN.gb18030,
zh_CN.gbk (GB18030, GB-18030, GB_18030, GBK, zh_CN.gb18030), zh_CN.iso2022-7, zh_CN.iso2022-CN (zh_CN.iso2022-7)
I want to know whether the solaris 11 is support gb2312?
I have a software run on Solaris system ,an the software need GB2312 code support ,on Solaris 10 the software Can be normal operation,but on Solaris 11 there has some problems,so I want to know the Solaris 11 is not support gb2312 code?

Try the following:
# pkg search /usr/lib/iconv/GB2312%UTF-8.so
INDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGE
path file usr/lib/iconv/GB2312%UTF-8.so pkg:/system/library/iconv/unicode@...
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Does solaris dhcp server support user class

Does solaris dhcp server support user class(option 77). In my environment, solaris dhcp server seems just ignore this option set in the client dhcp discover.
Does anybody can help me.

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For the problem to be the ARP cache, wouldn't the client's MAC address have to change during the reboot (i.e. the change in the client's MAC address is what causes the ARP cache to get confused, and hence the client gets blocked because of the MAC mismatch)?
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I am trying to install Solaris 11 Express Live DVD on Vmware ESX 3.5. I am facing issue while creating VM with 8VCPU.
Does Solaris 11 express supports that? Pleas send me the link if any which states that?

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on-line since 12/08/2010 08:10:57.
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What versions of Solaris should we support?

What versions of Solaris are officially supported by Sun? I notice that there are patches available for older versions but the compiler tools are not supported on these platforms.
We would like to drop support for 2.6 and possibly 7 but only if Sun no longer supports these versions.

Well, if you are asking what supported Solaris OS that compiler tools will run on, here is the link:
http://developers.sun.com/tools/cc/support/support_matrix.html
However, if you are asking what versions of Solaris Sun support, you will need to ask the marketing or try 'Solaris OS' on http://forum.sun.com/
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Rose

How many LUNs does an Solaris Host can support ?

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Anyone can share, how many storage LUNs does an Solaris Host can support? There is any limits on this.?
Regards
Siva

It probably depends at least some on the type of HBAs, the driver, topology, and most likely other things as well. Instead of dealing with thousands of LUNs on the OS side, I would highly recommend you have your SAN team start provisioning meta devices instead, to cut down on the number of devices (if you are lucky enough to have a SAN team that is). My company allows me to be the EMC and Solaris engineer, and in return all they ask is that I only collect pay for one of the two....

Why difference in Solaris and Linux

Hi,
The following program is giving results diferently when I am executing using g++ compiler in Solaris and Linux.
Why it is so.
here is the code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main( void )
size_t size;
char *buf;
if ( ( buf = (char *)malloc(10 *sizeof(char))) == NULL)
exit (1);
size = sizeof( buf );
strcpy(buf, "HelloWorld");
printf("\n Address is : %u String is : %s size : %d ", buf, buf,size);
if (( buf = (char *) realloc(buf, sizeof(20))) == NULL)
exit ( 1);
*(buf+10) = 'A'; *(buf+11) = 'B'; *(buf+12) = '\0';
printf("\n Address is : %u String is : %s\n", buf, buf);
free( buf);
exit( 0 );
Solaris:
Address is : 134160 String is : HelloWorld size : 4
Address is : 135704 String is : HelloWor
Linux:
Address is : 134518824 String is : HelloWorld size : 4
Address is : 134518824 String is : HelloWorldAB
Thanks
Venkat

Hi,
The following program is giving results diferently
when I am executing using g++ compiler in Solaris
and Linux.
Why it is so.
here is the code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main( void )
size_t size;
char *buf;
if ( ( buf = (char *)malloc(10 *sizeof(char))) == NULL)
exit (1);
size = sizeof( buf );The size you get here is the size of buf, which is the size of a pointer, not the size of what buf points to. sizeof(*buf) would give you size of a char, the type (not the object) that buf points to.
There is no portable way to find out the number of bytes allocated on the heap if you are give only a pointer to the memory. You have to remember the size some other way..
strcpy(buf, "HelloWorld");A literal string consists of the characters in the string plus a terminating null, all of which are copied by strcpy. You allocated 10 chars for buf, but are writing 11 chars into it. At this point, the program has undefined behavior. Literally anything at all could happen, because you can't predict the effect of writing outside the bounds of allocated memory.
printf("\n Address is : %u String is : %s size :
e : %d ", buf, buf,size);
if (( buf = (char *) realloc(buf, sizeof(20))) == NULL)The "sizeof" operator in this case is returning the size of the type of a literal 20, which is an int. If you want to allocate 20 bytes, you write 20, not sizeof(20).
exit ( 1);
*(buf+10) = 'A'; *(buf+11) = 'B'; *(buf+12) == '\0';SInce you can't count on buf having more than 4 bytes at this time, you are writing into unallocated memory, with undefined results.
printf("\n Address is : %u String is : %s\n", buf, buf);
free( buf);
exit( 0 );
Instead of asking why you get different results on different platforms, you should be asking why the program doesn't crash on all platforms. :-)
You can avoid these problems with keeping track of allocating memory by using the C++ standard library instead of trying to manage low-level details yourself as in C code.
The standard string class, for example, extends itself as needed, and ensures that heap memory is freed when the string object is deleted or goes out of scope. You don't need pointers, malloc, free, or sizeof to use C++ strings.

Why keyboard and mouse right click not working in Solaris and Linux?

Hi all,
I have two problems:
1) I am working on AWT/Swing application and its working fine in window enviornment,but while running on solaris and linux mouse right-click option window not poping up.
2) Ctrl+c,Ctrl+v,Home and End keyboard key are not working in solaris and linux OS for same application.
Pls provide me some solution for these problem.
-Dinesh

Hi Nik,
Thanks for reply. I found some solution for the above problem.
For mouse right click there was problem in my source code.I have not implemented the mousePressed() method
In case of keyboard Home, End and arrow key working fine after exporting AWTUSE_TYPE4_PATCH=false; in solaris and linux
But still Ctrl-c and Ctrl-v not working.
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-Dinesh

I am having difficulty: we are running a windows server 2003 - mail and outlook support 2007 and upwards, how do I get the brand new apple machines to work with the 2003 version of server

I am having difficulty: we are running a windows server 2003 - mail and outlook support 2007 and upwards, how do I get the brand new apple machines to work with the 2003 version of server

I may be way out, but do you know about this product, would it help integrate the Macs for you.
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IMAC's Top graphics card frustration - Cheap and no support for Adobe Mercury Playpack Engine GPU Acceleration?

If anyone has a solution for getting the Mecury Playpack Engine GPU acceleration to work with Premiere Pro CS6 on an iMAC 2011, please let me know. Like I wonder if you could Thunderbolt an External graphics card somehow? Or is an upgrade possible? Ahh...not worth the risk.
Please, if you have a solution for me, let me know. Otherwise I find it pretty frustrating that I purchased a top-end iMAC, fully maxed-out in every way possible, and that the iMac doesn't support Adobe Premiere's Mercury Playback Engine GPU acceleration. Also, an old USB 2.0 Hub and thus the built-in SD card reader is slow. If you have SD cards with 95MB/s Transfer, Read and Write speeds, the iMAC will only transfer at around 30MB/s if you're lucky. Technically 480Mbs which is around 50MB/s but I haven't seen those speeds.
I figured this could at least be circumvented with a Thunderbolt SD card reader or a Thunderbolt to USB 3.0 adapter but of course no such thing exists.
Well, nothing with a reasonable price tag. This all might seem trivial to some but when you're uploading 24 hours of HD video footage from a 128GB SDXC card, the speed makes a big difference.
And come on, no BluRay support? Ridiculous. I get the politics of why but still, just ridiculous. It would be nice to be able to burn a BluRay to watch in my home theater system. There are other methods but BluRay is convenient and great for backing up large Video Files. Unfortunately BluRay looks like it's not going to make it. Maybe cable distribution companies will increase their Internet upload speeds one day and I can just store everything in the cloud and watch full length movies(that I've created) on Vimeo.
Anyways, I went and took a look at the hardware Apple stuffed inside my fancy (3.4 Ghz i7, 16GB 1333 DDR3, 2GB AMD 6970M, 256 GB SSD Internal and 2TB 7200 Internal) machine and it appears to be pretty middle of the range stuff. It's an iMAC, not a Mac Pro so why am I griping? Because my 2009 PC(which I tricked out over the last two years) is faster and does support the Mercury Playback Engine. I spent $2100 total on this PC which includes all my upgrades. I spent around $3300 on the iMAC. I feel ripped off.
Yes, I do love my iMAC on multiple levels but had I known my dated 2009 PC would render video projects faster, I would have gone with a MAC Pro or just a new PC. It seems that Mac is moving completely away from making high-end computers for niche markets(video editing) and focusing on their tiny laptops, IPADS and IPhones for the masses. Obviously smart from a capitalistic perspective(at present at least) but very frustrating for some.
I was actually told to purchase a MAC for video editing. I've been a PC guy for 15 years. I went with the iMAC because I had read many good things about it(probably just Apple propaganda) and also the MAC PRO was to be discontinued. Also the MAC Pro would have been triple the cost for what didn't seem like a whole lot more.
It's one's thing to prepackage a computer with inferior hardware(the iMAC I have is fast for most things and more than enough for 99% of the population) but to not allow us to pop open the computer and make a quit upgrade to the machine is what really makes me feel like I'm using a computer built for Grannies. I mean there is a reason my mother loves iMacs and Iphones. Amazing that I was able to upgrade my memory from 4 to 16GB but I've heard Apple has even done away with that. I get why they do it. Apple Warranty, Apple Care issues, Profit and World Domination: Apple wants a monopoly on everything.
Was great to see Adobe bounce back after the whole Flash/HTML5 thing and knock Final Cut Pro off the face of the Earth for good. People are still buying it b/c of the brand name but Final Cut is done. David Fincher used Adobe's Workflow for everything when he made The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo. Hollywood is making the shift and the world will follow. The Adobe Workflow has finally come together and there is just no way Apple can compete with Adobe Creative Cloud and an Engine that can just swap from Premiere to After Effects to Prelude to SpeedGrade to Photoshop to Story with speed for $29 bucks a month(or $49 for some). Apple better start supporting Adobe's Mercury Engine or they may have a problem. And if you're using Final Cut X, you're severely handicapping yourself. Problem is that people don't want to take the time to learn Adobe's products(steep learning curve for sure) which is where Apple's Granny software, and perhaps computers, comes in to play. Arnold Schwarzenegger once said "Milk is for babies, Real Men Drink Beer". I'm beginning to think that "Mac's are for Grannies, Real Men Use Adobe and PCs".
The major problem with Apple is you're forced to use Apple. Not sure but history has proven that people don't like to be forced into anything. Autocracies don't work. These systems eventually topple, even in the corporate world.
Amazon.com, now that's the company to emulate. What an amazing machine!
I've read that Apple may even discontinue the iMAC after 2013. Who knows?
If anyone has a solution for getting the Mecury Playpack Engine GPU acceleration to work with Premiere Pro CS6 on an iMAC 2011, please let me know. Like I wonder if you could Thunderbolt an External graphics card somehow? Or is an upgrade possible? Ahh...not worth the risk.
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2) USB 2.0 Hub with only 480 Mb/sec
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4)APPLE SSD TS256C Flash Drive. As you can see, it doesn't stack up so well against other SSD Drive.
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Whining and ranting about how iMacs can't do this or iMacs/orMacs can't do that is not going to get you a lot of help here.
Your "I love my MAC" is typical of the ever ubiquitous PC whiner.
If your video work needs were that computer intensive and critical , you should've done some online research and you should have budgeted for a Mac Pro.
Mac Pros are completely expandable and upgradeable unlike the iMac.
Mac Pros have much more faster and more CPU cores than the iMac line.
iMac line is limited to CPUs with 8 cores. The Mac Pros, I believe, are up to 16 core CPUs, now.
The Mac Pros can have their GPU upgraded and you even add/expand to use specialty audio/video cards.
Mac Pros are the defacto standard for real video work.
iMacs, even the high end model, is not really designed to do really heavy and intensive video work.
iMacs do do video creation and editing. Just not on the level that is needed from a more "Pro" computer.
It seems to me you are asking your iMac to do more than it was originally designed for, in terms of professional video editing.
You get a lot more out of a Mac Pro than an iMac for any real serious video, CGI or animation work.
You just didn't want to spend that much cash on one.
iMacs are not user upgradeable or friendly to user upgrades at all!!!
If you purchased a Mac Pro, you could've had that better, faster HD, better faster SSDs.
That said, I can offer no real help to but because of the nature of your post and the fact you just simply annoyed me, I feel some advice and explanations are in order
First off, you picked Adobe video editing software suite as your video creation software on the Mac. It's no secret to long-time video content creators on the Mac that Adobe products, especially those for video creation and editing are very user unfriendly on the Mac. Even though Macs are supported from Adobe, Adobe for a long time has treated the Mac and Mac users as second class citizens.
Before purchasing and installing Adobe Premiere, did you even check Adobe's site for the preferred system hardware and software requirements? Hmmm?
This is why you should KNOW what software you are going to be running on a computer first then research what computer make and model will run said software.
That's why Apple has its own apps like Aoerture, Logic and Final Cut.
Despite your ignorance in this matter, Final Cut Pro X is alive and doing well, thank you, and using this software on your iMac would kick Adobe Premier in the you know whats.
Final Cut Pro X is a complete video solution for and completely designed around the Mac.
Why are you using USB 2.0 connections for video work when you have a perfectly good FireWire 800 connection.
In case you are not aware, FireWire 800 is called so because it has a max throughput of 800 Mbps.
Your 2011 iMac can take up to 32 GBs of RAM. Not just 16 GBs.
This changed when the 2010 model iMacs came out.
Blu-ray? I believe you can buy external Blu-ray writers that work with Mac using said FW800 connection.
So you cite one movie and one videographer using Adobe Premier for your premise that Final Cut is dead in Hollywood?
Your argument that Apple locks you into everything in their world can be countered by saying Windows and Windows PCs lock you into the Windows world. What's your point?
Apple is not discontinuing their computers platforms any time soon.
All you are regurgitating is rumor. Probably from all of the PC crowd.
iMacs and professional desktop Macs are not going anywhere.
Currently, Apple is the only desktop/laptop computer maker that is still making a profit on their Macs and increasing their market share percentages for the last 5 years during which the PC market has continually slumped/dropped in its market share.

Mp3 and j2me supporting reliance mobile

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