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
