Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Solaris 10 graphic problem :Tombé en marche

Well, you know that's the french expression to say you didn't do anything and it started working...
Yes, it worked...FYI, the parameters I used are :
Xsun :
Video Device : Intel I810/815 (4Mb)
Video Driver : I810
Resolution : 1024x768 - 256 colors at 75Hz
Screen size : 17-inch

I did two things which I don't know if that saved me :
I installed xf86-4.4.0-video.pkg.bz2 (SUNWxf86r and SUNWxf86u), I found on the web.
And electrically stopped the PC.
Rebooted, BINGO : gave me I810 choice.

Now, I feel better. :-)

Installing Solaris 10 on a PC

Ok, there I am. I installed Solaris 10 (3/05) on a PC at work. :-)
The installation went very smoothly, was very easy, not much different from the previous ones.
But... yes, there is a but...
I seem to have a problem with my graphic...
Basically, it doesn't manage to start the Xserver.
The PC is a Fujitsu Siemens Xs 1171 with onboard graphic chip Intel 810E.
This chipset is supposed to be supported with Solaris 10 using Xorg.
I tried to xorgconfig but it still fails with error saying there is no driver for agpgart...
Surfing the net, I found some agpgart driver for Linux but not for Solaris...

Well, the driver should be included in the version of Solaris 10 Express 11/2005 that just went out. I haven't downloaded it yet and I will try it soon.
But I feel pretty frustated no to be able to make it work with the earlier version.

Anybody knows how to work this around ?
Help welcome

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

"Joyeux Noël", the movie

I truly recommend it. The movie takes place during the first world war somewhere in the trenches in the north of France. On December 25th 1914, German, Scottisch and French soldiers celebrated Christmas together in peace. This is a true story. I didn't know about this before I read about the movie. That is really worth saying it.

Monday, November 07, 2005

Riots in the suburbs

Maybe you heard about those events happening in France lately.
To all my friends outside France, don't worry about us. We're fine.
We live in a quiet area of Toulouse and nothing bad happened near us. (not yet ;-) ).
However, I feel really sorry about what's going on.
I'm sorry for the people living in those areas, we shall say ghettos. That makes me realize that we are from the very lucky world, born in a relatively easy family,well-educated, living our childhood in a peaceful village. That we can call happyness.
We have been somehow protected.
Later, I had been living in the suburbs of Paris, a place well-known, or I should say, bad-known as being a dangerous area. I never had a problem all the time I had lived there. Several years...
But that's only my experience here and then.
The fact is, when I arrived in Toulouse, I had the possibility of living in Empalot. Not knowing before what it was, I went to see the apartment. I had not been in the hall yet that I knew I didn't want to live there... Insecurity feeling...
So what ? Had it getting worse in the meanwhile ? Or had I jumped a social class since then ?
Anyway, it is an emergency that we, citizens, become aware there are other citizens living there who need a decent place to live, who need a better education, who need employement, who need help. And even if I condemn the damages down to all public and private properties, people there need to hear we heard them and we will do something for them, and DO it, and do it SOON.
And people, old or young had always been more stupid in a crowd.
Stop burning, start talking, hurry acting.