(Just including laptop-discuss, in case they've any more ideas)

Geoff Lane wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 07:55:53AM +0000, Tim Foster wrote:
>> I've had a look at getting Solaris to run on it - using an external USB
>> disk installed with the Indiana preview bits (based on nv_75)
> 
> Does the audio work OK?

Nope - although I haven't tried messing with it. On boot I get messages
from audiohd0 "unsupported HD codec: vid=0x10ec0662, rev=0x00100101"
and "audiohd_attach() couldn't create codec"

- doing an audioplay of /usr/demo/SOUND/sounds/cowbell.au fails as
we're unable to stat /dev/audio.

> Do you think that there is any chance getting the 100M NIC working?

No idea. The Attansic L2 driver is supported in Linux, and I read that
it may be derived from some Intel drivers, so perhaps there's hope ?
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openbsd-misc/2007/11/13/410822
http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/atl2-source (I haven't looked at
this source)

> I have an Eee and I'd like to use Solaris but I mostly use the Eee for
> downloading and listening to podcasts so audio and network speed are
> important to me.

At this stage, just getting any networking would be a leap forward for
me, but I agree that sound would be nice too.

On the plus side, X works beautifully!

I'll try to get my hands on a more recent Solaris Express distribution
and see if that manages things any better - nv_75 is pretty old at this
stage.

        cheers,
                        tim
-- 
Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
                                  http://blogs.sun.com/timf

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