Make sure you have the latest bios on your laptop. Check your bios and see if you can turn off the lagacy ps/2 keyboard and only use the usb/keyboard, Solaris and Vista are strict with the bios settings.
Also on the 9/12/09 try canada/english Or try snv_b122 and see if that does the same thing or last try Solaris 10 from http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp submit a bugid 5/09 download and edit grub to boot in single user mode and boot unix -s then -B options Once as root # prompt, run at the single user command prompt (FYI, note the config file is in the /etc/default/kbd ) : locale kbd -t kbd -l prtdiag |head -- This message posted from opensolaris.org