On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:37 PM, USM Bish <bish at airtelmail.in> wrote:
> On 2/25/08, Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:25 PM, USM Bish <bish at airtelmail.in> wrote:
>  >  > On 2/25/08, Anil Gulecha <anil.verve at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  >  >
>  >
>
> >  I think that's what you're seeing too. The bluetood hardware is
>  >  receiving power, and there's an indicator to tell you that the batter
>  >  is being drained.
>  >
>
>  You may be right here. It may be a power-on indication, but then
>  the hardware toggle switch works.
>
>
>  >
>  >  I know that the bluetooth project needs developers on the team :
>  >  http://opensolaris.org/os/project/bluetooth/
>  >
>
>  This is too high a level for my kind of gen. Just wondering if the
>  bluetooth protocol stack for linux can be ported:
>  http://bluez.sf.net/
>

I recall someone called Anand from the BOSUG wanting to try building
bluez on Solaris. I think that's still work in progress.

He's asked some questions
(http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=201036) but I
haven't heard anything more.



>
>   >
>  >  >  But then, I could not run Indiana off the hard disk. The live
>  >  >  distro works. Are there any issues with SCSI hard disks ?
>  >  >
>  >
>  >  I used to face these ugly problems with most SXDE releases except for
>  >  one based on build 55. I'd finally decided that the motherboard's IDE
>  >  controller was an issue, because SXDE worked just fine on other
>  >  laptops with a different motherboard revision.
>  >
>  >  You could try updating to the latest BIOS from Dell for your particular 
> model.
>  >
>
>  My box is still on warranty, and I could get back to Dell on it. However,
>  since Indiana live works flawless, whereas the installed version has the
>  issues of the grub loader loading up the kernel, the issue may be in the
>  installation process (that is my hunch, anyway).
>

On a D620 that I had last May, I had zero problems with build 55
installtion, but build 66 (with Xen) and above had problems. You may
be right about the installer having issues.

>  Any BIOS issues should have other OSs being affected in some
>  way or the other. I have run Vista, XP, FreeBSD and several Linux
>  distros for trial purposes, and all of them work (to varying degree of
>  success on non-MS OSs, as regards h/w recognition). Even Belenix
>  works (minus sound). I personally feel, it may not be a BIOS issue.
>

Good reasoning, indeed.

But for one of the batches of the Dell D620 that I have at work, I
needed to update the BIOS to version A08 in order to install anything
apart from Windows.

>  Bish
>

-- Sriram

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