Milan Jurik wrote: > Hi Rafael, > > Rafael Ubaldo p??e v ne 13. 09. 2009 v 16:49 -0700: >> Thanks for the reception everyone. >> >> The laptop is due to door ETA 14 days. I will register a blog to track "the >> project" progress once it arrives - which may be helpful throughout the >> community for all of ten newer Dell users. One of my colleagues runs Ubuntu >> on the Studio 17. The speciality keys including screen brightness, WIFI, web >> cam and mic all worked with little or no tweaking. It will be interesting to >> compare how far OpenSolaris hardware compatibility has progressed. >> >> The manifest from Dell is attached, advertising a lot of useless goodies to >> line my waste basket. Amusingly, the customer who donated the system to me >> would of had to pay extra for Windows XP which is sold as "XP downgrade >> option - upgrade" on the manifest for another system. >> >> Once the Windows logo is pealed off, the system will be branded a >> sacrificial lamb. My hopeful goal is to achieve the level integrated >> compatibility Toshiba has on the Tecra M10 as an after hours project. >> >> I set out to use OpenSolaris full time but it may not be possible. From my >> limited reading, the backlit keyboard and screen brightness most likely will >> not work, nor will speed step or power management - which may prevent me >> from using in production and toting OpenSolaris to the Linux trolls on site. > > I do not know about backlite keyboard, but why do you think "screen > brightness", "speed step" nor "power management" will not work? If there > is no bug in BIOS and ACPI support is correct, the most of these things > will work out-of-box. Yes, suspend&resume can be problem and will need > some effort probably.
the last time I asked, we (engineering) still didn't have enough information from ATI to be able to get resume working correctly (suspend being the easy part ;-) - if I'm wrong, I'd be very interested to know :-) >> 320-8018 1 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
