James Cornell wrote: > I meant everything else. With modification and some manhandling FreeBSD > 6-RELEASE can work with the msk driver. STABLE and CURRENT have the > updated device ID's and supposedly work.
Ah. Unfortunately it's not just a question of updating the /etc/driver_aliases file as I discovered a while back. > I was referring to Cambridge > Silicon Radio (BT), Intel Pro 1000 (PCI-E), and Atheros 54xx (To a > degree, it's supported upstream in HAL) and NVIDIA (Never had issues > with NVIDIA on anything) the Mavell SysKonnect is the exception, but > surely you guys have used FreeBSD driver code in the past. I see > nothing wrong with it, and on the record I think OpenSolaris has a long > way to go with mobiles, not just on this particular hardware, I watch > the mailing lists. Now, my desktop, an Ultra-20 M2, runs great, but it > should. I sense a large amount of anger and frustration here. BlueTooth - no idea where they're up to since the project page says they've stalled due to lack of resources I'm surprised you have a problem with the pci-e Intel Pro 1000, since Sun has (a) a good relationship with Intel, and (b) several engineers who are responsible for keeping it up to date. Did an update_drv with the device alias not work? Atheros support - have you checked out http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ath/ lately? It appears that the version 0.7.2 of ath(7d) has support for the at least some of 54xx series chipsets. > I've already used those blogs, and I knew how to do it before they even > posted about it. Their methods mostly work, but they are not healthy, > and the main thing wrong is the installer, it doesn't matter EFI or MBR > it shouldn't try and cobble the mbr with grub without asking, this is a > main source of grief, along with managing without parted, which is a > must. Nowadays I know how to restore everything without wiping the > disk, it's quite easy, simple 134MB bit of free space with some mkpart > magic, and you can restore it back to one using their GUI frontend to > diskutil, or you can use diskutil mergePartitions JHFS+ VolName disk0s2 > disk0s3 for instance. Ok, point taken. So what have you done to try to help Sun people who work on the installer to get it fixed? > Fixes for the keyboard and trackpad features are on my list of things > that are a must. Thankfully VirtualBox now is "stable" with v1.6 cause > I need an equivalent of VMware with VMDK support, so that's a good thing > though I don't know the status of bridging which on OSX is not there > even though Sun says it's "stable" this is just pathetic, bridged > networking is a must, there's no technical reasons it's not there, > there's tun/tap and qt works fine with system level stuff, and hence I > refuse to support VBox regardless until they keep all the basic funtions > at parity, and have a FreeBSD version. So is that a problem with VirtualBox, or OpenSolaris, or MacOSX? Again, what have you done to make people who can do something about this aware of the problems? > Compiz works nice on my desktop, acceleration is pretty good, SongBird > is okay, though I really HATE the Gecko rendering engine, and XUL > especially, such slow and badly cobbled cruft IMHO, there's better > options for a renderer, and this is a MEDIA PLAYER! The gstreamer > bundling problem is the other hurdle, it's more than just annoying, then > there's the quality, which I've discussed before. I've tried the > supposed fix, it's better with current builds of JDS and Nevada with > Fluendo, but it still doesn't feel or work exactly how it should on > anything. Under the scenes is the only thing going for OpenSolaris, I > really like the use ZFS snapshots on Indiana (2008.5). I'm not too happy about the MP3 plugin situation either - join the club. I do expect this to change (and fast) but I don't have any visibility into the relevant groups which work on that area. > As a system administrator by contract, OpenSolaris is a decent option > for deployment of file servers and web stack servers, but for > specialized tasks, for support, for integration, into any other market > it will have trouble. Solaris 10 is worse off, though still better > supported, there's a tad bit of overkill engineering going on, similar > to how the Linux Desktop folks like doing things. You know, the world has changed significantly since Solaris 10 was released. Markets, applications... it's all different. As far as I'm aware, the people who run Solaris 10 do so for hard-edged business reasons. I don't know what you mean by "overkill engineering" though, could you expand on that a bit? > Lack of a modern current stable popular version of KDE with sane options > is unacceptable. I don't really like GNOME, and CSW KDE is crufty old, > don't make me mention Solaris Companion, what a joke. [snip earlier emails] I believe Stefan Teleman (@Sun.COM) is working on this pretty solidly. Have you got in contact with him? And no doubt you're already familiar with http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/kde/ James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson
