James Cornell : > Frank wrote: > >> Hi, my Tecra M3 is going to break down any week now - though, it served good >> for me over ~4 years. As per company (guess wich ...) policy, for the time >> being there is no good replacement for it (the M10 is too heavy and wide and >> also looks ugly, btw). So, even that I'm no Apple fanboy at all I examined >> the specs and read some blogs on the MacBook (Pro) running OpenSolaris. The >> HW is fine. Well, some keys are missing and the touchpad is somewhat strange >> for me. Anyway, does anyone have good experience w/ OpenSolaris on a >> Macbook- maybe besides Windows XP (OSX is a no brainer for me). Any >> essential dirvers that won't work like sound, touchpad and/or wifi? Any >> other glitches I'll experience? >> >> TIA >> >> > Sound works with OSS, Ethernet from Marvell's support site, Atheros > The latest Solaris Audio HD driver(after snv_103) should also work on MacBook.
Regards, Yangrong > works using a newer package from OpenSolaris.org. You'll need a > pendrive or the network drivers on a CD. It all depends which model you > go with. The revision 1/2/3 have Atheros, but now they apparently use > Broadcom again, but NDISwrapper should work, as long as it's running in > 32-bit mode. If it's a regular Macbook this won't cause any harm to > you. The Pro's NVIDIA graphics are superb, and they have dual cards > now, but I think that's too new to be well supported. If you can get a > June 2007 model, they work well enough. Just keep in mind the key > mappings require work and the iSight doesn't work (In the future, the > HAL blob may be usable as it is under Linux). > > Brian Leonard's Java Weblog is the best article right now IMHO. > http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/05/_opensolaris_20.html > > James > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20090204/39ac807c/attachment.html>
