[indiana-discuss] [eeepc-discuss] install osol 08.11 on asus 1000HE

[Niveditha Rau]

> On a side note, i915 driver is still far from perfect though. This
> system works perfect with Ubuntu intrepid (I got 3D compiz desktop).
> On opensolaris snv_108 however, what I get is :
> - alt-tab not working initally. Strangely enough, alt-1 alt-2 and so
> on on gnome-terminal works.
> - if I set "Visual Effects" to "Normal" or "Extra", all I get is white
> screen. After about 15 seconds it revert back to normal desktop
> (without Compiz), but now alt-tab works :)
>   
In builds 107 and 108, accelerated 3D will not work on any of the intel 
graphics chipsets.  We upgraded to Xorg 1.5.3 and intel_drv 2.4.2 in 
build 107 and needed to get drm updated to 1.5 to work with it, which 
only went into build 109.

Niveditha