Belenix addicted user :-)
Yo!
Just started installation of Belenix on my office desktop.
I can't sleep. in VirtualBox some restrictions which I faced made me to do full installation.
I decided to remove OpenSolaris 2008/11 from my office desktop and just started Belenix installation.
KDE making it easier to use OpenSolaris kernel via Belenix. I have used Linux so it doesnt look difficult
Now I got more room to use Belenix in production environment.
Some quick access thing I liked in Belenix which made my mind to install in office desktop as follows :
-KDE menu
-easy to access LAN browser
-Easy to configure samba
- No tricks to do to make SSH work. I always had hard time to enable these stuff in Solaris.
-Quick boot time [ in Live CD mode ] compare to 2008.11 OpenSolaris
-Installation time is less as well. [ 20 mins approx which is normal. Good to finish Pizza in 20 mins meanwhile..bahhaha!!!]
I will post some more interesting features which I may find soon.
Belenix reminding my 1st Linux distro i.e. OpenSuSe which I installed on my 1st ever personal pc [ i.e. ThinkPad ] 3 years back. Like Belenix, I was excited to explore OpenSuSe that time as a linux newbie.
Hope to get hands soon on Belenix.
Cheer's,
Amey.
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Belenix addicted user :-)
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg@belenix.org> wrote:
>
> Cool, keep the feedback coming. BTW BeleniX 0.8 is coming up soon and
> it should reduce the installation time by 50%.
Like I'd mentioned at the POSUG meet last weekend, we're having a
number of new things with this distro - one of which is the GCC based
builds :)
The way I got started with Belenix was to try things out, ask
questions, report bugs, apply fixes that Moinak and others would
recommend, and then try the next feature.
Today, I use Belenix full time, and as and when I miss a particular
feature, I try to get that into Belenix itself.
Keep the feedback coming - we're listening closely to you :)
-- Sriram
Dual screen compatibility working on Belenix :-)
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On 01/21/10 16:06, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:46fe20471001210606lf2fe50ak8041dcbba987f099@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Hey this is really cool. I will upload the image to the BeleniX
webserver and send you
the link, you can post that to the list.
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Kaya Saman <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:SamanKaya@netscape.net"><SamanKaya@netscape.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi guys,
{didn't wana post this to the mailing list as attachment is large!}
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<br>
<pre wrap=""><big> Here is the link <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/dualscreen.jpg">http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/dualscreen.jpg</a></big>
</pre>
<br>
Please see further below for more information regarding mplayer etc. I
found that I also needed to install the lzo package on top of the arts
pacakge which was suggested to me by Moinak!<br>
<br>
So please in clear view for Mplayer one needs to install: spkg install
arts lzo mplayer<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:46fe20471001210606lf2fe50ak8041dcbba987f099@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">
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<pre wrap="">
As you can see using 2 screens works on 0.8 Beta to some extent. I couldn't
manage to change resolution of either screen and interesting thing with the
TV in the back ground is that neither OSOL or Belenix manage to detect the
proper resolution on that of 1360x768 (16:10), I only get 1024x768 (4:3
stretched).
I am not sure if this is to do with the chipset driver or if do with the
version of X in OSOL and Belenix or simply a database of different screens
and compatibility lists; Fedora 11 has the same issue of not being able to
identify the screens by name while (K)Ubuntu 9.04 does without any problem.
Anyhow the whole emphasis on this post was to show it working which is a
really nice thing :-)
Regards,
Kaya
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There are a couple of more images available which I already have sent
Moinak and Sriram so not sure if they want to put them up on the web
server but currently the link is as stated above!<br>
<br>
Also in addition Mplayer output:<br>
<br>
MPlayer SVN-r29347-4.4.0 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer
Team <br>
<br>
Playing Flashdance (1983) [ENG] [DVDrip] CD1.avi.<br>
AVI file format detected. <br>
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0<br>
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1<br>
VIDEO: [XVID] 704x400 12bpp 23.976 fps 1739.8 kbps (212.4 kbyte/s)<br>
Clip info:<br>
Software: VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)<br>
Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display ":0.0".<br>
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1<br>
==========================================================================<br>
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family<br>
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)<br>
==========================================================================<br>
==========================================================================<br>
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52<br>
No accelerated IMDCT transform found<br>
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 448.0 kbit/14.58% (ratio:
56000->384000)<br>
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)<br>
==========================================================================<br>
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Permission
denied<br>
ao2: 48000 Hz 2 chans floatle [0x1D]<br>
[AO SUN] Can't open audio device /dev/audio, Permission denied ->
nosound.<br>
[AO ARTS] loading the aRts backend "/usr/lib/libartscbackend.la" failed<br>
[AO ESD] esd_open_sound failed: Broken pipe<br>
[JACK] cannot open server<br>
ao_nas: init(): Can't open nas audio server -> nosound<br>
[AO SDL] Samplerate: 48000Hz Channels: Stereo Format floatle<br>
[AO SDL] Unsupported audio format: 0x1d.<br>
[AO SDL] Unable to open audio: No available audio device<br>
solaris_native: opening /dev/audio<br>
open /dev/audio: Permission denied<br>
[OpenAL] could not open device<br>
DVB card number must be between 1 and 4<br>
AO: [null] 48000Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)<br>
Starting playback...<br>
VDec: vo config request - 704 x 400 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)<br>
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)<br>
Movie-Aspect is 1.76:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.<br>
VO: [xv] 704x400 => 704x400 Planar YV12<br>
<br>
I have checked for /dev/sound and it does exist! Meaning that I
probably need to add my user to the sound or admin group??<br>
<br>
Flash also works and will be included in the repo soon hopefully as
currently is version 9 but version 10 does work: one can see further
information in Belenix 0.8 Beta successfully installed but bugs with
Intel series 4 chipset thread as I don't want to cross post since the
info is already uploaded.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Kaya<br>
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Belenix addicted user :-)
Yo!
Just started installation of Belenix on my office desktop.
I can't sleep. in VirtualBox some restrictions which I faced made me to do full installation.
I decided to remove OpenSolaris 2008/11 from my office desktop and just started Belenix installation.
KDE making it easier to use OpenSolaris kernel via Belenix. I have used Linux so it doesnt look difficult
Now I got more room to use Belenix in production environment.
Some quick access thing I liked in Belenix which made my mind to install in office desktop as follows :
-KDE menu
-easy to access LAN browser
-Easy to configure samba
- No tricks to do to make SSH work. I always had hard time to enable these stuff in Solaris.
-Quick boot time [ in Live CD mode ] compare to 2008.11 OpenSolaris
-Installation time is less as well. [ 20 mins approx which is normal. Good to finish Pizza in 20 mins meanwhile..bahhaha!!!]
I will post some more interesting features which I may find soon.
Belenix reminding my 1st Linux distro i.e. OpenSuSe which I installed on my 1st ever personal pc [ i.e. ThinkPad ] 3 years back. Like Belenix, I was excited to explore OpenSuSe that time as a linux newbie.
Hope to get hands soon on Belenix.
Cheer's,
Amey.