Saying Goodbye to Solaris ....

... on my Notebook only, since I wanted to use all its Features (Fingerprint Reader, Suspend/Resume) and the ATI x1400 was only basically working (native Resolution of 1680x1050, but no Compiz).
Opensolaris is still running on my old Desktop-PC (now used as "Fileserver") and in VirutalBox on my Notebook, so its not really a Goodbye.
Let's see what 2009.06 will bring, I will defenitly check it out.

Update on compiling MPlayer

I did an:

# gmake uninstall
$ gmake distclean
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/mplayer --enable-gui
$ gmake
# gmake install


and now it is running. I also installed SUNWgroff. I am not sure why there were Errors about "MMX_EXT unknown in function gmc_mmx() " while compiling the first time. This time it was all OK.

(Also) Compiling MPlayer

I tried to compile MPlayer by following this Post of the Observatory-Blog. Like some other People, I got some Errors. I try to collect the Actions and Workarounds here, that helped me to compile MPlayer.

As Enda O'Connor wrote in a Comment to the mentioned Blogpost, you have to install additional Packages. At least you need to install SUNWgawk. I recommend to check, if you have all needed Headers installed (like SUNWxorg-headers).

To make sure the GNU-Version of awk will be used while compiling, add it to your PATH-Variable:

$: export PATH=/usr/gnu/bin:$PATH

On my Machine (IBM z61m Noteboook) I had to disable MMX to compile:

$: ./configure --prefix=/opt/mplayer --enable-gui --disable-mmx --disable-mmxext

Unfortunatly I could compile and install MPlayer whitout Errors, but if I start it I get the following Message:


Obviously something went totally wrong :-( I will try to compile (and configure) MPlayer again, and provide an Update if its running.

UPDATE: See next Blogpost. Disabling of MMX was not necessary!

It's shipping!!!

Yeah!

Today I received the Shipping-Mail for my copy of the Opensolaris Bible. There are three Example-Chapters available for Download (Chapter 1, Chapter 3 and Chapter 8). And If you want to have a visual impression of the Book, just look here ;-)

Shutdown-Bug Workaround

If you have installed Opensolaris 2008.11 and your Machine wont shut down, you're may hitting the Bug 4887 at defect.opensolaris.org. There is a Description of a Workaround in the Comments to this Bug (see here).
After applying these Changes my Laptop shuts down properly.

NWAM and static IP-Adress

I wanted to give my Fileserver a static IP-Adress. While the GUI for NWAM was core-dumping when I tried to set up a static IP-Adress with it, I looked for other ways. The simpliest way is to change a Config-File of NWAM:

# svcadm disable nwam
# vi /etc/nwam/llp

change "bge0 dchp" to "bge0 static 192.168.1.1/24"

# svcadm enable nwam

And that's all.

Digging Deeper II: 2008.11 SysAdminGuide

If you want to learn more about the last Opensolaris-Release (2008.11), you can read the "System Administration Guide" or download it.

It provides Information for the general use of Opensolaris:

• Working from the Command Line (goto)
  
• Configuring Thunderbird Mail Account Settings (goto)
• Tips for the Opensolaris Release (goto)

And, of Course, Information for the Opensolaris-Killer-Features:

• Managing Services (SMF) (goto)
• Administering Automatic Network Connection (goto)
• Managing ZFS/NFS/CIFS File Systems (goto)