Having also installed OpenSolaris on an eeeps 900, I confirm Karl's observations. I have another: OpenSolaris happens to freeze (only the mouse stays alive) for ever when there is much disk activity. I get it consistently when copying the openoffice distribution from one place to another on the sd card or when gtar -zxvf'ing it from an external usb key.
This looks like a serious issue for OpenSolaris, because this and the keyboard problem solved by slowing down the boot sequence let me fear that there is still a deadlock condition in OpenSolaris: The eeepc is a special machine because it has a very fast disk and a very slow processor, so that this condition might have never appeared during tests on "normal" machines. The good news is that it will probably disappear on the eeepc 901 with its faster processor, but still, I don't like having that kind of problem in an OS, even it only shows up in rare circumstances. Another point (but here also not specific to the eeepc): having no support for WPA with EAP-TTLS) is a problem because this is what eduroam uses (worldwide wifi roaming between educational institutions) and a very light pc with OpenSolaris is a dream when travelling. And since the Ethernet interface is not yet supported, wifi is the only possible network interface. Last issue: the eeepc would also be nice to use on airplanes but therefore it should be possible to easily shutdown and restart the wifi: is there a way ? Marc Karl Dalen wrote: > I finally installed OpensSolaris on a 8G SDHC card. > Thanks for a lot of good tips posted here and on > other sites about the installation. > > 1. Never got the installation from USB memory stick > to work. Had to use a USB dvd-drive to install the > OpenSolaris 2008.05 CD. > > 2. Keyboard > Based on information posted here adding '-v' > to the kernel line in the grub menu get the keyboard > to work. Used a USB keyboard during the install. > > 3. Wlan > The ath-0.7.3 driver on: > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ath > seems very stable. Using a wireless router I can > now nfs mount my file systems and do ssh into the EeePc. > Haven't experienced any problems with the wlan. In > Linux you could switch on/off the wlan (blue light) to > save power when not used. Don't know how they > implemented that if it requires special features > in the driver. > > To monitor and configure wlan is wificonfig the > application to use or are there other (better) applications ? > > 4. Audio: Installing oss from www.opensound.com > worked fine and gives decent audio. Make sure to bring-up > both the ossxmix and the sound mixer in gnome to > to make sure all master volumes are adjusted properly. > > I copied my mplayer installation I had built on my U20 > and now I can even play 720p hd video on the little > EeePC with good sound. This is great. Didn't expect > the 900 MHz processor to be able to do that. > > 5. Issues still pending are wired LAN (Bug ID 6677682) > and suspend/resume (which I've heard may be supported > in later nv builds) Anyone knows if suspend works on > other laptops ? > > 6. To try next is using external monitor and microphone. > I don't think the internal mic will works as it did > not even work in Linux. Will try with an external mic. > > 7. Other issues (may not be eee PC specific): > > Still suffering from warning messages about not having > permission to use gnome-sys-suspend when I first log in. > (Have only used cde before this install so don't know > if this is a Gnome or laptop specific problem). > Don't know how to get rid of this message. Other windows > such as nautilus get opened on top of this warning > message window, which hangs waiting for user input. > It locks the Gnome GUI and I cannot bring the window > on top to press an OK button. > This only happens the first time I log in after a reboot. > After getting logged in I can still do shutdown from > the regular menu. > > Is the GUI based package installation manager supposed to work ? > When I bring it up from the system administration menu I > don't see any packages listed, everything is just empty. > Do I need to set up something for that to work? > > When you install software can you mix installing some > packages using pkgadd and others with the new IPS or > can this cause dependency problems ? > > /KarlD > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get news, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Check > it out! <http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > eeepc-discuss mailing list > eeepc-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/eeepc-discuss
