>I just made OpenSolaris for Eee PC distro: >http://kohju.justplayer.com/docs/mirror/OpenSolaris/eeepc-special/osol-0906-111a-x86-for-EeePCs.usb >It includes wifi and wire NIC driver for Eees and some patches for Eees, >It is confirmed Eee 701,900,901,1000H,1000HE,S101.
Let me add EEE 900A (physically almost an 900 but Atom processor). Works great. Excellent work there Masafumi. Well, with some exceptions, not your fault. Like if you close the lid, video is gone and you have to shutdown the machine by ssh from another machine. >and more lately I am sure OpenSolaris size are getting bigger because of >its packages are improved, >so we have to remove snapshot for backup when using Eee 701 - such a >poor 4GB SSD. I wouldn't even dare on the original ssd, at least on the 900A, it is too slow. I upgraded to a bigger (64GB) and faster ssd, and it is pretty decent. >Thus I have a plan to downsize my distro for Eees The installed software is not bad, but if you could select a cluster at install, like good old solaris, that would be best. I had to install hundreds of megs of stuff after that like the gst plugins, the adobe reader and flash, sun studio etc. What is bad is the boot up time. Out of the box it took 1 min 35s before I was logged in and got the arrow pointer. I disabled services like basicreg, zones, xvm-vnc-config, sendmail, set atime=off on rpool, removed from /etc/xdg/autostart the codeina notifier, opensolaris-icons-copy, updatemanagernotifier, destroyed rpool/dump. I think that's it. Anyway, i get the desktop at :54s and is ready to use (arrow pointer) at 1min 4 seconds. Big improvement, but as I dtraced the boot, still a ton of work to be done. On this config, Windows XP SP3 tweaked some gets me to the desktop in 21 seconds by comparison. I'm thinking of disabling a lot of services and running a script to enable them after i am logged in. Another area that needs tweaking for netbooks is screen space. Is there no way to collapse the triple menu to a single launch button? I was able to merge the two bars into 1 at the bottom. I also enabled subpixel smoothing, changed some font sizes, dropped the bar to 24 pixels. As a FYI, under OS2009.06 power consumption is at 11(.0 to .3)w with wifi enabled, and about 3h20 min on a 4400mah battery. I get about the same (plus or minus 1 minute) under windows xp. Opensolaris did not shutdown when the battery got close to fully drained and it went down hard. An easy way to disable hardware (wifi, bluetooth etc) is pretty much a requirement too for a netbook version. _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
