OpenSolaris on a new Shuttle SFF
A new week, a new OpenSolaris install experience...
Picked up a new replacement 'everything' server last week, a Shuttle SN68SG2. The intent is to upgrade my main work server, and take advantage of some latest technologies:
- Multi-core lower-power AMD CPU
- OpenSolaris xVM technology for virtualization right on top of hardware hypervisor
- Gigabit Ethernet (I tend to schlep a lot of big .iso images from box to box here)
So I tricked this box out (under $500!) as follows:
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (2.5GHz, dual-core, 65W) CPU
- 2 x 2GB DDR2 400 memory
- 250GB SATA disk
Installing the latest Nevada (nv78), went fairly well, except for the NIC. The rundown:
- CPU/memory: works (frkit isn't happy with dual-core, but that's a known issue)
- SATA: works!
- Audio: not yet tested [update: it works]
- USB 2.0: works
- Firewire: not yet tested
- Onboard graphics: works great with bundled nVidia driver, driving 1680x1050 Benq monitor
- Onboard NIC (nVidia 630a chipset): 'nge' driver did not recognize this chipset, but Murayama-san's 'nfo' 2.X driver does (once again, Arigato Gozaimashita, Murayama-san!)
