Hi! I've noticed this kind of freeze also on Ubuntu... Has this happened when you were accessing an SD card? There is a new BIOS update for the EeePC 900 which fixes SD card compatibility. This *SEEMS* to have made the problem lessen for me...
I didn't manage to get OSS to work on mine. Did you need to do something before installing it? Gilles. Marc Lobelle wrote: > 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. 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