[ug-bosug] Solaris on a laptop?

[USM Bish]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 05:47:48PM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Srichand Pendyala wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am looking to purchase a laptop sometime soon. I've been
> > considering the HP dv6226; KUbuntu 6.06 runs flawlessly on
> > it. Does anyone have any Solaris experience with it?
> >
> > Will Solaris  run fine on it,  or will I have  to stick to
> > VMware?
> >
> > More details on the laptop at:
> > http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/in/en/ho/WF05a/1090709-1116637-1116665-1116665-1116665-12924872.html
> >  
> 
>   To test try these two:
> 
>   Boot  from   BeleniX  CD   and  see   what  hw   is  being
>   detected/supported In addition you can boot the laptop and
>   from it visit the following URL:
> 
>   http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html
>

Moinak, is  there an  OpenSolaris HCL list,  like the  one for
Solaris 10 out here :

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/systems/views/all_laptops_all_results.page1.html

As per Nexenta  docs, some Solaris 10 drivers are  not part of
OpenSolaris, and  what makes  it more  confusing is  that some
Nexenta  drivers  (hacked  from  GNU/Linux) are  not  part  of
OpenSolaris too.

Recently, I  got myself an  HP Compaq nx6115. (As  per Solaris
HCL,  the  nx6215  id  supported,  so  I  thought  nx6115  its
immediate predecessor should). I ran the online jnlp detection
program linked by you above both in Win XP and Linux (Fedora).
Except for the  Braodcom WLAN, and two other  items related to
the ac97, all other drivers were available.

However, when  I plonked  in a  live CD,  I could  not proceed
beyond the  first few  seconds. I  tried with  Solaris Exprees
(build 56), Belenix  and Nexenta. All three  give the folowing
error, which keeps  on scrolling the screen  up, stopping only
with  physical power  off:  "NOTICE: lp0:  too many  interrupt
requests". I could never get around this problem ... could not
get much help from googling too.

The HP Compaq nx6115 otherwise is quite a modern machine, with
an AMD Turion 64 bit 1.6 gHz processor. Both Fedora and Win XP
runs on it, with all components working.

At the  present stage, I would  suggest to resort to  only one
method - push in a live OpenSolaris distro and see.

Bish