On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:47:44PM +0530, Manoj Joseph wrote: > > Shamit Bagchi wrote: > > > > Actually the Belenix CD boots up and the GUI starts to > > come up - but then afterwards for almost 15 minutes, > > the windows never get rendered. > > What is the configuration of your system? I believe the > minimum requirement is 128 MB RAM. But 256 MB (or more) > would be a good idea. > > I did get my system up (with 128 MB RAM, P3 800 MHz) but the > boot from the CD was not very fast, though not as slow as > you found it to be... >
Just joined the list today. I am no expert here, and perhaps a bit too early to chirp in ! However I though if I could share my experiences with Belenix (thanks to the Sun guys at foss.in). I have tried it on three boxes. The disk I got was fine without scratches (this should be remembered for problems annotated above). My CDR/Ws are almost as good as new (another thing to watch for). Box 1: Genuine Intel P4, 128 mb RAM, Riva-TNT2 video card. The thing booted, came into GUI, but it was painfully SLOW ! Just not workable. Cannabolised another 128 MB from my hapless Celeron (difficult getting SDR these days) and things improved dramatically. The Riva TNT was automatically configured. I was impressed. I would believe that the min RAM configuration for Belenix would be 256 MB ... I had problems with my serial mouse ... the helpful guys at the Sun show at foss.in gave the clue to the mount point, after which it worked. Serial mice are NOT picked up by the boot process. Pain ! Box 2: My son's game box. AMD-64 with ATI-Radion-9800 video card and 1 Gig RAM. Did not boot at all ! Just kept trying to start X after 30 odd min ! For some reason, it did not fall back to the xorg 'vesa' (failure mode). I pulled out the ATI and tried with the onboard graphics card. This time it went into 1024x768 vesa, and I could hardly make out the difference between this and the Ubuntu-64bit or Win-XP (32 bit) already installed on that box. The available software on the CD worked fine ... good enough for a feel ... Box 3: Acer laptop 256 MB RAM (belonging to a colleague). Booted and worked fine. The touchpad worked! Video was 1024x768 vesa. I don't know how to change resolution ... it was a test run after all! Did not experiment much. To me appeared a bit slower than Box 1 described above. Remarks: I am not very familiar with Solaris commands, so could not proceed with much experimentation. But installed software worked fine. I was a bit disappointed with the absence of tty terminals, which we get under linux by pressing Ctrl-Alt-V1 through V6. Neither did I know the method of dropping to a console boot (whatever runlevel 3 equivalent out here is) ... but then these are things to be learnt, so I leave it at that. For a guy who spends 80% time on console this was a BIG PIA ! Being a locally developed stuff, and still in early days, I admit I was quite impressed. Give the guys some pep, and proper negative feedbacks (or kicks where you think they deserve), and I am sure in the coming months, things would change. If Belenix aims to reach the position of Knoppix under Linux, there would be lots of refinements needed, and ofcourse resorting to compressed file systems, and more accent on h/w detection. The fall-back modes MUST be proper and functional. Frankly, i would say, the present baby looks real good and promising. Keep it up guys ... Bish -- : ############################################################## On 21 Nov 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers undertook the first manned flight on a hot air baloon for 22 odd minutes, lots of cheers were raised. Some wise men at Paris then questioned "What good is it?". There was a man from the distant lands who remarked "For that matter, what good is a newborn baby!". His name was Benjamin Franklyn. ############################################################# :
