[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana on a Samsung NC10 Netbook - Issues

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lxde is in the SFE repository, you might want to look at using that since
it's a much lighter interface (not that I have used it in a long time, or
checked that it works recently)

1GB of memory isn't much to play with ...

Jon


On 9 May 2014 10:42, Discussion list for OpenIndiana <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm a new OpenIndiana user and thought I would try to get it going on my
> Samsung NC10 netbook. I can successfully boot the live USB distro but the
> only option in the GRUB menu that works is the text-mode. This drops me to
> a console which I can login fine and otherwise everything looks neat. The
> problem is the default GRUB option which looks like it attempts to boot
> Gnome. This just leaves the screen a lime green colour and refused to exit
> to the console or restart X when I hit the correct keys.
>
> A number of other things I have found:
>
> 1: Only gui-install is available. Is there no ncurses based installation
> available? At the moment I can only boot off of the USB drive.
> 2: For user "jack" in the .Xclients file this line is uncommented:
>     exec /usr/bin/dtstart jds
>     This binary doesn't exist so I'm not sure what or why it's trying to
> call this.
> 3: My Atheros Wifi card is picked up but the only encryption option is WEP.
> Not a show stopper but it's something I would like to hack on later to get
> WPA2 going. Scanning works well and it picks up my Wifi but cannot connect.
> 4: I can start a minimal Xserver with XTerm which works fine. All of the
> Gnome stuff is installed, it just seems to have a problem starting the
> display when I'm in text-mode, and actually running when I'm in GUI mode.
> Could be something to do with Naulilus?
> 5: /var/adm/messages spits out a few errors regarding
> nwamd_ncp_handle_enable_event, open_session_request, close_session_request.
>
> I'm happy to start hacking on this stuff to get it working but would be
> great to be able to install it to the harddisk to at least have a better
> idea of what works. Any ideas? Any pointers much appreciated!
>
> Specs:
> Samsung NC10 (NP-NC10-KA01UK)
> Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz
> 1GB DDR2 533MHz RAM
> Intel 945GSE Express International Graphics Controller
> Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
> Wifi: Atheros AR242x / AR542x NIC
> Eth: Marvell 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
> 128GB SanDisk SSD - SDSSDP12
>
> Thanks,
> Will
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