Hello, given that OpenSolaris 2008.11 had very significant improvements (great work indeed :)) in hardware support on current laptops, I am wondering what can be expected with the upcoming 2009.6 release. For my case (Thinkpad R61), these are the most interesting issues:
1. Support for Fn-Fx hotkeys, most of which are acpi-related. In Linux, there is a very powerful kernel module named thinkpad-acpi which manages these event-action linkages in concert with the acpi daemon 2. Support for additional keys (speaker volume etc.). In Linux these can be simply mapped to standard X functions via their key codes in the xmodmap file, but this mechanism does not seem to exist under Solaris (or does it?) 3. Support for fingerprint reader; in 2008.11, the device is listed as supported (!), but how to actually read fingerprints and, most importantly, how to use them for login authentication has remained a mystery for me :( Again, this is a well-documented feature in Linux... Overall, I would very much like to make (Open)Solaris my main OS, but (being a laptop user) I'm afraid I still have to wait for more complete hardware support. But it is certainly getting closer ;) Thanks in advance for any pointers Oliver -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
