[OpenIndiana-discuss] Using OI (hipster) on H81 with intel G1820 graphics

[Nikola M]

On 10/21/15 09:34 AM, Nikola M wrote:
> Hi, I installed hipster 20151003 today from DVD on H81 cupset 
> motherboard with Intel G1820 cpu with integrated graphics.
> I see picture is only at 1024x768 for now and was planning to us 
> VirtualBox on it for running Guest OS(windows) inside, using external 
> USB devices.
>
> My maincencern is graphivcs on that intel and I suppose that should be 
> improoved with Xorg updates, but I witnessed I lost ability to turn 
> off screen with DPMS with xscreensaver and losta bility to control LCD 
> screen brightness , just shortly BEFORE hipster snapshot ISO release...
>
> As you know Hipster can not get older packages back (that used to work 
> better), because of naming scheme that has major package name first 
> and then OI release second and that breaks ability to manipulate 
> packages freely.
>
> So if problem with OI hipster graphics I can't solve during this day, 
> I won't be able to use it on that machine because machine would bein 
> production and out of hands.
>
> I protest inability to install older packages in hipster that works 
> and naming scheme that effectuively makes hipster unusable for making 
> stable distro.
> I protest making hipster snapshot releases that include freshly 
> introduced regressions and new bugs.
> Always being in constant flux and adding changes that add more bugs is 
> not leading to having something usefull and supportable.
>
And yes, I am very much sorry for gramatic mistakes in previous message,
spellcheck also stopped workinng awhile ago in hipster's Thunderbird ,
without bothering that Thunderbird and Firefox without spellcheck are 
much less usable.