Kazuyuki Sato : > Hi, Frank-san > > I am using Nevada b106 with MacBook Late 2008 (13-inch Aluminium, > MacBook 5,1). > My impression: > > I am satisfied though neither audio, trackpad nor wifi are used easily. > > - GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M > It works with nvidia driver for Solaris. required, > # update_drv -a -i '"pci10de,863"' > > adjustment of LCD brightness uses nvclock. > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=87856&tstart=0 > > - Wired NIC: NVIDIA MCP79 Ethernet Controller > It works with nge (no jumbo frame, vlan) driver or Murayama-san's > nfo driver. > However, patch is necessary for nge driver. > > http://solaris.sunfish.suginami.tokyo.jp/blog/patch/nge_snv105_MacBook51.patch > > > > required, # update_drv -a -i '"pci10de,ab0"' nge or nfo > > - Wireless NIC: Broadcom BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN > It works with ndis wrapper driver. > but, only works 32 bit kernel. > or USB wifi adaptor recommends it. > - audio: ALC885? > > attaches audiohd. but very noisy. > I am using SoundBlaster Play! (USB audio unit) Please run the command "audioplay /usr/share/sounds/login.wav" to check whether the noise relates to the audiohd driver or the music player used by you.
Regards, Yangrong > > - built-in camera: iSight (works!) > works! > > - Trackpad > > It is not possible to use it conveniently. > recommend the USB mouse. > - suspend/Resume, fastreboot works. > > great! > - powertop > -- > OpenSolaris PowerTOP version 1.1 > Cn Avg residency P-states (frequencies) > C0 (cpu running) (15.8%) 1596 Mhz 100.0% > C1 1.4ms (84.2%) 1862 Mhz 0.0% > -- 1995 Mhz 0.0% > > - scanpci, prtconf output > > http://solaris.sunfish.suginami.tokyo.jp/wiki/index.php?title=MacBook_Late_2008_%E3%81%AE_scanpci_-v_%E5%87%BA%E5%8A%9B > > > http://solaris.sunfish.suginami.tokyo.jp/wiki/index.php?title=MacBook_Late_2008_%E3%81%AE_prtconf_-D_%E5%87%BA%E5%8A%9B > > > http://solaris.sunfish.suginami.tokyo.jp/wiki/index.php?title=MacBook_Late_2008_%E3%81%AE_prtconf_-D_%E5%87%BA%E5%8A%9B > > > > Best regards, > Kazuyuki Sato > > Yang-Rong Jerry Zhou wrote: >> James Cornell : >>> Frank wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, my Tecra M3 is going to break down any week now - though, it >>>> served good for me over ~4 years. As per company (guess wich ...) >>>> policy, for the time being there is no good replacement for it (the >>>> M10 is too heavy and wide and also looks ugly, btw). So, even that >>>> I'm no Apple fanboy at all I examined the specs and read some blogs >>>> on the MacBook (Pro) running OpenSolaris. The HW is fine. Well, >>>> some keys are missing and the touchpad is somewhat strange for me. >>>> Anyway, does anyone have good experience w/ OpenSolaris on a >>>> Macbook- maybe besides Windows XP (OSX is a no brainer for me). >>>> Any essential dirvers that won't work like sound, touchpad and/or >>>> wifi? Any other glitches I'll experience? >>>> >>>> TIA >>>> >>> Sound works with OSS, Ethernet from Marvell's support site, Atheros >>> >> The latest Solaris Audio HD driver(after snv_103) should also work on >> MacBook. >> >> Regards, >> Yangrong >>> works using a newer package from OpenSolaris.org. You'll need a >>> pendrive or the network drivers on a CD. It all depends which model >>> you >>> go with. The revision 1/2/3 have Atheros, but now they apparently use >>> Broadcom again, but NDISwrapper should work, as long as it's running in >>> 32-bit mode. If it's a regular Macbook this won't cause any harm to >>> you. The Pro's NVIDIA graphics are superb, and they have dual cards >>> now, but I think that's too new to be well supported. If you can get a >>> June 2007 model, they work well enough. Just keep in mind the key >>> mappings require work and the iSight doesn't work (In the future, the >>> HAL blob may be usable as it is under Linux). >>> >>> Brian Leonard's Java Weblog is the best article right now IMHO. >>> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/05/_opensolaris_20.html >>> >>> >>> James >>> _______________________________________________ >>> laptop-discuss mailing list >>> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> laptop-discuss mailing list >> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
