Encouraged by an online article showing how Solaris outperformed Linux for the Asterisk PBX, I've convinced the owner of a local startup that builds a PBX appliance (Via chipset) to use OpenSolaris.
Of course that meant I would have to help set up a development system for him. This wasn't for the weak hearted. The targeted box has keyboard/mouse/video/ethernet as well as USB ports, but no bootable peripheral. I tried a USB DVD drive, but no go. I ended up popping the case and putting a DVD drive on the IDE bus. Installation went fine, but I couldn't convince the video driver to do less anything but 1600x1200. This meant lugging my old 20" multisync CRT instead of using an LCD for the rest of the setup. I did finally manage to coax an acceptable resolution by specifying that it was a VESA compatible device to Xorg. Next problem was that the ethernet device wasn't working. I downloaded the vfe driver code and got that resolved. The rest of the setup went like a dream. It took most of a day, but he left impressed. Once he's ready I'm going to help setup the real machine that he just can clone from. If his business takes off, it will be a real feather in the community's hat. Thanks to everyone for making this possible. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
