Hi again, I've actually made some progress running OpenSolaris on my HP 6735s. Now I'm having problem with Xorg lagging. It feels really slow and it's eating a lot of CPU. The mouse pointer moves pretty smoothly, but moving or resizing windows are a pain. It feels like I'm on a remote desktop on a 56k modem. There must be something wrong and I'm hoping you can help me work it out.
If it's any help, here's the story so far... I didn't get any further with 2008.11, however only a day later 2009.06 was released (to my pleasant surprise). I didn't hesitate to download and try this release instead, and guess what... it booted straight into the live-cd (didn't even stop to think). A moment of joy! =) Determined to get OpenSolaris running, I went straight to the installer (no way to learn like the hard way, right?). Installing was pleasingly simple, however I ran into problems when trying to log in after the reboot. Like I do when I'm installing Windows, I left password blank when I created my user. It turned out to be a bad idea since blank passwords are not allowed by GDM (I've read about this but, a real show-stopper for newbies). I had to learn how to boot into single-user mode and set a password for my user. Luckily, that was pretty simple. When OpenSolaris finally let me in, I started the Device Driver Utility to check if I had any driver issues. Unfortunately, drivers were missing for two devices, both my network cards (wired and wireless). The wired card is from Marvell Technology Group and the Device Driver Utility pointed me to some driver called myk. I didn't know how to get that one installed. Instead I followed step 8 of this blog post: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/05/_opensolaris_20.html Note that I don't have the same device as this guy (mine is 11ab, 4357). However, the Yukon driver seems to work fine (I used a newer version that I found on the Marvell website and I never). I never did the update_drv part described in the blog post. The version I installed requested a reboot and after that I had network connectivity and decent speed. =) I haven't bothered with the wireless (Broadcom: 14e4, 4315) since I have no need for it right now. That's about all I have done. Played around a little with Gnome and installed OpenOffice. Now I want to get rid of the lagging. I've imagined OpenSolaris being a quick and responsive OS. Is that wrong? Thanks to everyone how has read this far. I really appreciate any help! / Mikael -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
