These days,i try to install compiz fusion and some drivers of my notebook,but unfortunely i can't find fit resources at the present.However there are some ways to find your own Solaris resources for your notebook.
The 3D desktop is so amazing that i want to install my notebook.But my display card is intel X3100.These day ,i find Erwann has resolved the Nvidia and ATI display card driver problems of compiz for Solaris,you can find these information on blog:http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/.However,after i install the compiz on my notebook Lennovo Thinkpad R61i,the intel X3100 is not compatible with compiz and once you run compiz,the system will be hanged.I find intel X3100 is in compiz blacklist,so hope the new compiz driver of intel X3100 will come out quickly.
Before we install the solaris, we don't know whether our machine is compatible with Solaris.Some days ago,my mentor Fiona Duan gave me some resources of Sun Device Detection Tool.That's a great tool to know some information between your machine and Solaris and you can detect your machine online.This is the website:http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.jsp.After you detect the system,it will provide some information on your system and some websites where you can find useful drivers.My Lenovo Thinkpad R61i uses the intel chipest and broadcom Netlink.So there are a driver of intel audio on http://www.opensound.com and bcm5787 for Solaris,you can use the driver bcm9*.. on http://zh-cn.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/?source=top to recognize the network card.
I believe Solaris are changing better and better.Hope you can find some useful resources through above.
Thanks for sharing your experience (of running Solaris Express on ThinkPad R61i) with us; the info you provided is very valuable.
Regarding inability to run compize 3D desktop, my thought is this: Both Solaris and the IBM ThinkPad are actually intended for business users. For use as a business tool, it is not necessary, nor desirable, to have 3D capability turned on. Therefore, there is nothing to lose.
The Intel chipset X3100 actually works best on Solaris; I have problems even trying to run Ubuntu (no screen) on the same notebook. I am with only limited success with SuSE.
Regarding the bcm5787 wireless chipset, did you have to run Solaris at 32-bit in order to make it work? I don't trust wireless and have not had a chance to play with it on my R61i, but would like to know what's going on.
Thanks again for blogging about your experience on running Solaris Express on one of the most popular business notebooks.
发表于 W. Wayne Liauh 在 2008年04月22日, 05:21 下午 CST #