[geeks] solaris compatibility tool

[Francois Dion]

On 2/28/07, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:59:14 -0600 (CST)
> Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > What platform?
>
> Linux and Firefox 2.0.2, Java 1.5 I believe.
>
> > I just saw the "/tmp? so I assume your on Solaris ;^)
>
> Not yet... I think it has been 4 years now since I had Solaris running server
> duty around here.  NetBSD and FreeBSD just work so well.
>
> It seems to me that something is putting the SDM file in /tmp, and SDM cannot
> read it from there.  It thinks it is a URL.
>
> I think that's how Firefox hands off things like external protocols to other
> programs, and SDM doesn't know how to handle a pathname.

I think they confuse people with a Java web start URL under the
control of SDM. I wouldn't use SDM on a jnlp. For those that are not
familiar with that, it's pretty nice:

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Programming/jnlp/

> Anyway, the Solaris test gave mixed results.  The motherboard is supported,
> along with all of the USB, IDE, and SATA ports.
>
> It identified my "Audigy 4" soundcard as an "Audigy 2" and says there is no
> driver for it.

No driver included, but you could try:
http://www.opensound.com/

> The bigger problem is this: Solaris doesn't support my Symbios 895 SCSI
> controller.

There was one for Solaris 8 (or maybe 9), might be around still? It
was a binary only driver. I know that symbios was bought by LSI, so
maybe NLA.

Francois