[Evolution] Re: Running Evolution under Solaris 9 (8/03)

[Andy McMullin <Andy rickham net>]

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 14:21, Brian Kolaci wrote:
> Great, thanks so much.  This is exactly what I
> was looking for...  I searched the archives but didn't
> come up with anything even close to your solution.  I
> wasn't sure how to fool the system with a uname() replacement.
>
> I would have thought that Ximiam wouuld have an installer
> that allowed Solaris 9 though.  Seems it should be simple
> enough as it should be the same as Solaris 8.
>
> Thanks again,


Anytime Brian. 

Don't forget the bit about setting your colour depth to 24-bit though.
It seems that Solaris 9 now sets the desktop (and apps) to 8-bit colour
by default (unlike previous versions) so Evolution will seem to work --
but will just die when you try to open your inbox, calendar or tasks.
Set the machine to 24-bit (or better) and it works fine.

In my case, I have a Creative framebuffer so I just had to create the
file /etc/dt/config/Xservers file to include the following (single)
line.

:0   Local local_uid console root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -nobanner
  -dev /dev/fbs/ffb0 defdepth 24

Hope this helps.

-- 
Regards
Andy, G8TQH
http://www.rickham.net/