Hey Jean, As far as the device support is questions are concerned, just boot into the liveCD and run the Device Driver tool on the Desktop. It will tell you which devices on your laptop are supported, and which are not.
-- Anil http://www.gulecha.org On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Jean-Michel <jean.bruenn at ip-minds.de> wrote: > 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 > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org >
