[geeks] solaris compatibility tool

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2007/02/27 Tue PM 11:49:52 CST
>To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [geeks] solaris compatibility tool

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>Ugh... why do they make it so hard?

I think part of the problem was that we were linked into SUn's website too deeply, behind the point where login is required.

>Anyway, the Solaris test gave mixed results.  The motherboard is supported,
>along with all of the USB, IDE, and SATA ports.
>
>It identified my "Audigy 4" soundcard as an "Audigy 2" and says there is no
>driver for it.
>
>The bigger problem is this: Solaris doesn't support my Symbios 895 SCSI
>controller.

That is suprising, as I would assume that support for that controller would have "just happened" as that is one piece of hardware that is popular on SPARC as well as x86 hardware.

Interesting note, I have a real nice laptop with *everything* supported - it is an Inspiron 9100 *desktop replacement* laptop with a 3.0 GHz HT-capable P4, 2 Gig of RAM, an obscenely high-res display (1600x1092, IIRC), a discrete ATI video card (Radeon 9700, IIRC), and built-in WiFi - all system components were marked as supported...

>It will be OK while I'm playing around, but if Solaris were good enough to
>replace Linux on the desktop, Symbios support is a requirement.

Why wouldn't Sun just recompile the driver for x86 - is that card supported by previous (read "non-Express") versions of Solaris?

Lionel