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Adding RAM to an Ultra
9 November, 2005, 07:05 pm
The Ultra 30 system has 16 slots for RAM. It has to be added in pairs, with out mixing stick sizes in any of the 4 banks of 4. You also have to put the largest sticks of RAM in the 0 slot positions and work up from there in banks/pairs.
For Example, the following arrangement would give you 768Mb of RAM.
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128 128 xxx xxx | 64 64 64 64 | 64 64 64 64 | 32 32 32 32
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audioctl
5 November, 2005, 10:37 am
Solaris's audio resets to defaults on every reboot. This tool, audioctl:
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-10694/utilities.html
Will allow for scripted audio settings upon reboot. You can make a simple script for init.d like so:
#/bin/bash
audioctl -rp line -mv 35 -rv 75 -rb 32 -v 75 -p headphone -b
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You'll need audioctl in your path, I ln -s'd it in to /bin/bash.
You do not need root privelages to change the audio settings or run audioctl. You can put it in your .profile or .bashrc if you'd like.
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pkgadd -n
2 November, 2005, 06:44 pm
The switch to not have to keep saying "y" to pkgadd when installing multiple packages is -n (thank you man pkgadd)
On an interesting note, I installed the StarOffice 8 Trial on my Windows PC to compare it to another Windows PC running OpenOffice. When I downloaded a .doc file, Firefox on the PC with StarOffice asked me if I wanted to open the file with "OpenOffice" even though OOo was not installed.
Hey Sun, what was the difference between StarOffice and OpenOffice besides the licensing and fonts again?
:)
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pkgadd notes
2 November, 2005, 04:26 pm
OpenOffice 2.0 is out. I guess thats acutally old news, but installing it on SPARC isn't for me. The install on Linux and Windows is painless, just run ./setup or setup.exe. The install on Solaris is a bit different. Once you unzip the OpenOffice.Sparc.tar.gz file you'll have a directory called OOO(buildnumber).m3.native.packed.en-US.8968. In that folder you'll have folders for "licenses" "packages" and "readmes".
Wait a second, where't the ./setup script? No automatic easy peasy .sh to run? ACK! Ok, not really, but the lack of documentation for installing OpenOffice on SPARC Solaris made getting to this point as far as I could get during the OOo betas. Now I know the answer, and its a pkgadd solution.
I noticed the "packages" dir contained not .pkg or .gz packages that I am used to installing, rather it contains the individual parts of OpenOffice in extracted package folders. The samething you'd get if you broke a .pkg file down. Solaris pkgadd -d is the command to install from a -device. I usually use -d whenever installing packages from SunFreeware or the 'net, but I didn't know you can install them from a directory like this.
Using this method, you can install from the cdrom like so:
fOrk #>pkgadd -d /cdrom/packagesfolder
This way pkgadd parses ALL of the packages in the folder and presents them to you in a list to choose from or install all of. Knowing this, installing OpenOffice on SPARC (and x86) Solaris is as easy as:
fOrk #>pkgadd -d /home/shake/OOO680_m3.native.packed.en-US.89360/packages
It will parse them and then you can select "all" to install the whole thing. OpenOffice 2.0 installs in /opt/OpenOffice2.0 by default. Now anyone know a way to not have to keep hitting "y" to all the packages?
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