Re: [orca-list] open solaris

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

I just realised I forgot the link to the device detection tool page. It 
is http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ddtool

Michael Whapples

On 22/11/08 21:28, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> Admittedly number of audio devices supported is poor, but it is not 
> quite as bad as it seems on the live CD (although we do need audio 
> working then for installation with speech output). I would suggest 
> looking at the page of the device detection tool. Other than the tool 
> itself to confirm whether your hardware will be supported, there are 
> links to the officially supported devices and third party drivers. It 
> seems that there is a third party (not tested by the sun test tool) 
> driver for the SB live.
>
> As for the package manager, it does work with orca, but unfortunately 
> it loads data at the beginning making orca unresponsive and then 
> dynamically adjusts the lists as you navigate, again slowing up orca. 
> So whilst it can be used, it isn't a practical option. You may find 
> the commandline tool pkg more useful.
>
> I haven't a clue about the user options, I normally do all my user 
> management from the commandline in Linux.
>
> Michael Whapples
>
> On 23/12/42 20:59, mike wrote:
> > Hi, I got open solaris to run on a older computer. It is a great 
> > system, but here are three things I found.
> > My main problem is that no sound card I tried was supported other 
> > than my USB speakers. Even my soundblaster live that works with 
> > everything didn't work.
> > Second, the add remove software seems to be accessible, but all I 
> > heard was updating packages. I waited several minutes and never did 
> > hear anything else.
> > Last, and this is probably just a difference from what I was use to. 
> > In the user account settings, I didn't see a tab for setting user 
> > privileges, or a setting to tell if the user is a administrator or 
> > desk top user.
> >     Other than that the system seems very good. But is anything going 
> > to be done to support more soundcards. With out that support a lot of 
> > people will not be able to use this system.
> > X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 081121-0, 11/21/2008), Outbound message
> > X-Antivirus-Status: Clean