Hello,
i'm new to OpenSolaris and used to FreeBSD and Linux. As i wanna try
out some other operating systems and i'm very interested into ZFS i
wanted to give OpenSolaris a try. After some research using Google
and trying out myself i got some questions, probably there's some
documentation or already a forum entry i didn't found, would be nice
if someone can point me to those or probably answer my questions.
Well, let's start:
I'm using an Acer Aspire 5520G. Means we're talking about Desktop
and not Server-Usage. It's a AMD Turion X2 with 2 GHz, 2 GB Ram,
a 250 GB SATA Disk. From what i've seen, the nvidia graphiccard
should work using the nvidia driver, the atheros wlan card should
work, too. So.. no problems.
1. Chipcard reader
How about ... SD/MMC/etc Chipcard Reader? Its not displayed in the
Sun Hardware Detection tool (this nice java application). I found
the following Link:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/sdcard-drivers/
But is there any support for those devices now? lspci in Linux
shows the following:
01:04.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro
Host Adapter (rev 22)
01:04.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev
12)
01:04.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host
Adapter (rev 12)
01:04.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev
12)
2. Expresscard, and DVB
How about ... DVB-T / DVB in general. AND expresscard in general?
i bought me a Expresscard DVB-T Card for my notebook. This Card is
working fine in Linux now (drivers for this one exists only since
2 or 3 months anyway) i was using google to find out how this would
be in Solaris but it seems there are atm no drivers to use such
devices, is this correct? If so, is anyone working on it?
3. Soundcard
I used this nice HW detection tool (this java app) to look whether
my hardware is supported or not. For the "audiohd" it displays
that support is not gurantateed. Thats why i wanna ask whether someone
got the same soundcard and probably knows whether it's working or not:
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP67 High Definition Audio
(rev a1)
CHIP: Realtek ALG268
4. Zones
I read it's possible to run for example Linux within a "zone" one of
the limitations is, that you cannot load kernel drivers and such
things, i think i understand why. Anyway: I'm using a not so well
known source based linux distribution and would like to use this one
as a zone within opensolaris. I read a bit in the Zones Documentation
and i picked out some Howtos but still i'm missing the following
information:
- Is it possible to just save my current system in a tar.bz2
and unpack it into a zone?
- If i need to build the whole system (as i won't use debian
or redhat) is there a howto somewhere? I mean i know how
to install my distribution, but from what i saw you need
special images to install a zone( or?).
Well, i think... this was it for now. I'm happy about some answers.
Cheers
Jean
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