Only last week I had suggested that an interesting project for a community member would be to figure out what it would take to make Xorg run on OpenSolaris...
Only last week I had suggested that an interesting project for a community member would be to figure out what it would take to make Xorg run on OpenSolaris SPARC with a graphics device for which Xorg has drivers for other platforms, such as the PGX-series boards based on ATI Mach64 or the XVR-100 based on ATI Radeon 7000. I figured this would take a little while and a bit of work for someone to figure out. I guess I was wrong. Martin Bochnig announced yesterday that not only...
Only last week I had suggested that an interesting project for a community member would be to figure out what it would take to make Xorg run on OpenSolaris SPARC with a graphics device for which...
Last week I finally got libmd integrated into OpenSolaris and off my TODO list. It will be in snv_38.This small library took much longer to integrate than I had...
Last week I finally got libmd integrated into OpenSolaris and off my TODO list. It will be in snv_38.This small library took much longer to integrate than I had initially hoped it would. It turns out that building libraries that have $PLATFORM specific filters isn't that easy yet and $SRC/lib/libmd [might take a day or two yet to show up in the source browser] shows one way to do it. It also doesn't help when you take on the task of moving source around and touching every...
Last week I finally got libmd integrated into OpenSolaris and off my TODO list. It will be in snv_38.This small library took much longer to integrate than I had initially hoped it would. It turns out...
Unfortunately, all the changes in this build happened to be in the bits we haven't released yet (though I'm hoping to get our xscreensaver sources out sometime...
Unfortunately, all the changes in this build happened to be in the bits we haven't released yet (though I'm hoping to get our xscreensaver sources out sometime soon), so I can't point you at the changes in our just released source drop, but when the Solaris Express build 37 images come out, you should see these changes in the binaries. 6377194 XST extension wrapping makes the Composite and Damage wrapping not work In the X server, many extensions do their work by replacing...
Unfortunately, all the changes in this build happened to be in the bits we haven't released yet (though I'm hoping to get our xscreensaver sources out sometime soon), so I can't point you at the...
For now just a quick copy of the announcement - I'll write more once I catch my breath... The first code drop from the X Window System Consolidation has been...
For now just a quick copy of the announcement - I'll write more once I catch my breath... The first code drop from the X Window System Consolidation has been posted to opensolaris.org. It's a snapshot of a subset of the Solaris X Consolidation code from partway through Nevada build 38. Details on what's included and links to downloads & licenses can be found on the X Community Sources page. Source is not yet available in the OpenSolaris Source Browser, but work is in progress...
For now just a quick copy of the announcement - I'll write more once I catch my breath... The first code drop from the X Window System Consolidation has been posted to opensolaris.org. It's a snapshot...
I didn't even notice the date yesterday, but when I looked at the calendar today, I realized I'd just passed my seventh Sunday. (If your birthday is the...
I didn't even notice the date yesterday, but when I looked at the calendar today, I realized I'd just passed my seventh Sunday. (If your birthday is the anniversary of your birth, wouldn't a Sunday be the anniversary of your joining Sun?) March 29, 1999 was my first day in the desktop group at Sun, though back then I was an intern in the PowerClient Desktop Release Engineering team, working on tools for the release engineers, fixing bugs in build scripts and Imakefiles, and...
I didn't even notice the date yesterday, but when I looked at the calendar today, I realized I'd just passed my seventh Sunday. (If your birthday is the anniversary of your birth, wouldn't a Sunday be...
Since I know the Acer Ferrari 4000 laptop is popular in Solaris circles, a warning to users of it about a bug found by Sun's internal Ferrari user group: if...
Since I know the Acer Ferrari 4000 laptop is popular in Solaris circles, a warning to users of it about a bug found by Sun's internal Ferrari user group: if you're using Nevada build 35 or later, rename /usr/X11/lib/modules/libvbe.so so the Xorg server doesn't find it. If it's there, the new monitor probing changes introduced in build 35 by Sun bug 6385111 (aka Xorg bug 5892) cause the Ferrari 4000 to attempt to use VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) to get the monitor settings after...
Since I know the Acer Ferrari 4000 laptop is popular in Solaris circles, a warning to users of it about a bug found by Sun's internal Ferrari user group: if you're using Nevada build 35 or later,...
I expect today and the next couple of weeks will be very interesting and busy, as I've just published the document I've been working on for most of the last two...
I expect today and the next couple of weeks will be very interesting and busy, as I've just published the document I've been working on for most of the last two months, a proposed Solaris Installation strategy, to the OpenSolaris Installation and Packaging community. If you're interested in participating, please see the discussion thread.One thing that I ran into at the last minute was that the OpenSolaris site wouldn't let me upload the Flash mockup that we've done for the...
I expect today and the next couple of weeks will be very interesting and busy, as I've just published the document I've been working on for most of the last two months, a proposed Solaris Installation...
Another two weeks, another list of fixes checked in. The one with the biggest share of attention is also the one with the smallest code change - two missing...
Another two weeks, another list of fixes checked in. The one with the biggest share of attention is also the one with the smallest code change - two missing pairs of parentheses - four simple characters that closed one big security hole. 6387822 Wrong library path in xft.pc file Simple fix to the pkg-config data file we ship for libXft2 so it produces the right library path flags for linking so that GNOME 2.14 builds correctly. 6383556 Problem in allocating pixmap The last...
Another two weeks, another list of fixes checked in. The one with the biggest share of attention is also the one with the smallest code change - two missing pairs of parentheses - four...
[CVE-2006-0745] X.Org Security Advisory: privilege escalation and DoS in X11R6.9, X11R7.0 X.Org announced this morning a security hole in the Xorg 6.9 & 7.0...
[CVE-2006-0745] X.Org Security Advisory: privilege escalation and DoS in X11R6.9, X11R7.0 X.Org announced this morning a security hole in the Xorg 6.9 & 7.0 releases that allows a local user to create or overwrite files as root or to run code as root. More details can be found in the X.Org Security Advisory. This bug affects Solaris users who have installed Xorg 6.9 or 7.0, either on their own or from Sun's releases. Xorg 6.9 is included in Solaris 10 patches 118966-14 and...
[CVE-2006-0745] X.Org Security Advisory: privilege escalation and DoS in X11R6.9, X11R7.0 X.Org announced this morning a security hole in the Xorg 6.9 & 7.0 releases that allows a local user to create...
