[oi-dev] A release to install >= icore5 machines?

[ken mays]

Hello,


Ref: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.openindiana.devel/1323
You mentioned: "Triskelios also noted that there was not a driver for my ethernet
card "JMicron Technology Corp.|JMC250 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
Controller [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:197b device:0250 subv:1558
subd:1500) (rev: 05)", another problem that major distros don't fail."


Triskelioswas incorrect about the driver's existance.

The drivers exists for both your NIC (JMC250) and Nvidia GPU (drivers: jmge and nvidia). Check if you disabled the Intel GPU and if still interferes with the Nvidia GPU when you enable the graphic override switch. You can create a xorg.conf file and have X use that with 'nvidia' driver specified if its autodetect gets confused. Check your log file for X for those errors.

As mentioned, most of the OI_devs (and others) have oi_151a or variants running on Intel Atoms and Icore i5/i7-based laptops/servers/workstations (i.e. where applicable). Since the OS is installed on your laptop, is it just a 3D graphic issue and getting the jmge ethernet driver compiled and installed? You said you can run twm, so I
take it you may want to do something 3D-oriented as well.


jmge driver: http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/jmge-2.6.3.tar.gz
nvidia driver (OI-IPS):driver/graphics/nvidia at 0.295.33,5.11-0.151.1.3:20120329T221541Z

~ Ken Mays





________________________________
 From: simple w8 <simplew8 at gmail.com>
To: OpenIndiana Developer mailing list <oi-dev at openindiana.org> 
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [oi-dev] A release to install >= icore5 machines?
 
2012/4/26 simple w8 <simplew8 at gmail.com>:
> 2012/4/26 Rich <rercola at acm.jhu.edu>:
>> ...what?
>>
>> I've run OI on Core i5 and i7 systems.
>>
>> If you don't have details about what's not working, please don't overgeneralize.
>>
>> - Rich
>
> I really dont remember vry well on what failed, but i think Triskelios
> that helped me much could clarify.

If you read the message i sent to this ml with subject "OI in a good
PATH?" you will see why was not possible to boot and install OI.


>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:20 PM, simple w8 <simplew8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
 Hi,
>>>
>>> When will be produced a release that will install in Intel Core > i5
>>> machines and with updated drivers for hardware from 2011?
>>>
>>> I really was looking forward to use OI but that revealed as an
>>> impossible task... but as some OI developers was not possible to
>>> install OpenIndiana Build 151a (Desktop), and neither the server
>>> build.
>>> I dont remember well the details but even if it was possible to
>>> install, some hardware would not work, like jmicron ethernet and some
>>> other which i dont remember.
>>>
>>> So it would be good to know it there were news about a new release
>>> allowing Intel Core > i5 machines to install and run OI.
>>>
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