It had to be tried - installing the brand new OpenSolaris 2008.11 on my Eee pc 901.
It wasn't a bump free road....
I downloaded the new OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv 99 from www.genunix.org. Attached a USB DVD-drive and booted from it. Chose the first boot option from the Live CD, and waited.
The good news - keyboard now works without having to add -v option to GRUB. The bad news - the boot stopped when trying to launch the GUI part of the Live CD. So I booted the text console option and ran a scanpci to check the graphics card.
Then off to defect.opensolaris.org to enter the bug into bugzilla. Pretty soon thereafter I got a mail about trying out some new Intel 945GME drivers, so I followed the hints in the blog
http://blogs.sun.com/oslab/entry/patched_intel_video_drivers_for
but unfortunately I still couldn't get it to work, propably due to some failure on my part 
meanwhile OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv 100 has been released, so I felt the urge to try again.
No luck
Then I stumbled on http://blogs.sun.com/menno/entry/support_for_the_intel_945gme
- oh joy the Intel 945GME chip is supported from build 103 - must go download.....
