Hi Gilles, Gilles Gravier wrote: > Hi! > > I've noticed this kind of freeze also on Ubuntu... Has this happened > when you were accessing an SD card?
yes There is a new BIOS update for the > EeePC 900 which fixes SD card compatibility. This *SEEMS* to have made > the problem lessen for me... What do you lean by "lessen": can you live without the trick for the keyboard and does the sd driver always work ? > > I didn't manage to get OSS to work on mine. Did you need to do something > before installing it? No, the OSS test program works, but ekiga, for instance is unable to use it. I assume the API of OSS is not the same as that of solaris. It would be nice to have that fixed as well (or a working native solaris sound driver) Marc > > Gilles. > > Marc Lobelle wrote: >> Having also installed OpenSolaris on an eeeps 900, I confirm Karl's >> observations. >> I have another: OpenSolaris happens to freeze (only the mouse stays >> alive) for ever when there is much disk activity. I get it consistently >> when copying the openoffice distribution from one place to another on >> the sd card or when gtar -zxvf'ing it from an external usb key. >> >> This looks like a serious issue for OpenSolaris, because this and the >> keyboard problem solved by slowing down the boot sequence let me fear >> that there is still a deadlock condition in OpenSolaris: The eeepc is a >> special machine because it has a very fast disk and a very slow >> processor, so that this condition might have never appeared during tests >> on "normal" machines. The good news is that it will probably disappear >> on the eeepc 901 with its faster processor, but still, I don't like >> having that kind of problem in an OS, even it only shows up in rare >> circumstances. >> >> Another point (but here also not specific to the eeepc): having no >> support for WPA with EAP-TTLS) is a problem because this is what eduroam >> uses (worldwide wifi roaming between educational institutions) and a >> very light pc with OpenSolaris is a dream when travelling. And since the >> Ethernet interface is not yet supported, wifi is the only possible >> network interface. >> >> Last issue: the eeepc would also be nice to use on airplanes but >> therefore it should be possible to easily shutdown and restart the wifi: >> is there a way ? >> >> Marc >> >> Karl Dalen wrote: >> >>> I finally installed OpensSolaris on a 8G SDHC card. >>> Thanks for a lot of good tips posted here and on >>> other sites about the installation. >>> >>> 1. Never got the installation from USB memory stick >>> to work. Had to use a USB dvd-drive to install the >>> OpenSolaris 2008.05 CD. >>> >>> 2. Keyboard >>> Based on information posted here adding '-v' >>> to the kernel line in the grub menu get the keyboard >>> to work. Used a USB keyboard during the install. >>> >>> 3. Wlan >>> The ath-0.7.3 driver on: >>> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ath >>> seems very stable. Using a wireless router I can >>> now nfs mount my file systems and do ssh into the EeePc. >>> Haven't experienced any problems with the wlan. In >>> Linux you could switch on/off the wlan (blue light) to >>> save power when not used. Don't know how they >>> implemented that if it requires special features >>> in the driver. >>> >>> To monitor and configure wlan is wificonfig the >>> application to use or are there other (better) applications ? >>> >>> 4. Audio: Installing oss from www.opensound.com >>> worked fine and gives decent audio. Make sure to bring-up >>> both the ossxmix and the sound mixer in gnome to >>> to make sure all master volumes are adjusted properly. >>> >>> I copied my mplayer installation I had built on my U20 >>> and now I can even play 720p hd video on the little >>> EeePC with good sound. This is great. Didn't expect >>> the 900 MHz processor to be able to do that. >>> >>> 5. Issues still pending are wired LAN (Bug ID 6677682) >>> and suspend/resume (which I've heard may be supported >>> in later nv builds) Anyone knows if suspend works on >>> other laptops ? >>> >>> 6. To try next is using external monitor and microphone. >>> I don't think the internal mic will works as it did >>> not even work in Linux. Will try with an external mic. >>> >>> 7. Other issues (may not be eee PC specific): >>> >>> Still suffering from warning messages about not having >>> permission to use gnome-sys-suspend when I first log in. >>> (Have only used cde before this install so don't know >>> if this is a Gnome or laptop specific problem). >>> Don't know how to get rid of this message. Other windows >>> such as nautilus get opened on top of this warning >>> message window, which hangs waiting for user input. >>> It locks the Gnome GUI and I cannot bring the window >>> on top to press an OK button. >>> This only happens the first time I log in after a reboot. >>> After getting logged in I can still do shutdown from >>> the regular menu. >>> >>> Is the GUI based package installation manager supposed to work ? >>> When I bring it up from the system administration menu I >>> don't see any packages listed, everything is just empty. >>> Do I need to set up something for that to work? >>> >>> When you install software can you mix installing some >>> packages using pkgadd and others with the new IPS or >>> can this cause dependency problems ? >>> >>> /KarlD >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Get news, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. 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