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From: sergiusens <sergius...@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 11:57:53 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Mon, May 12 2008 2:57 pm

Subject: Re: OpenSolaris 2008.05 and Asus EEE PC

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On May 11, 10:44 am, Geoff Lane <zzas...@buffy.sighup.org.uk> wrote:

> Having an ASUS EEE PC, a USB DVD drive and a copy of OpenSolaris 2008.05
> LiveCD to hand I though I would try the obvious...

> OS2008.05 boots fine but the EEE keyboard can't be used so I can't get past
> the keyboard layout question (despite the message "USB keyboard" appearing
> on the screen.) I've read in blogs that earlier development versions of
> Nevada worked without problem on the EEE.

> Anybody know of a fix or workaround?

I haven't got mine to install yet (need more than 512 of RAM to run
the forsaken live[cd/usb]). You can workaround it with a USB keyboard.
If you google for a while you'll come to see what I've read, which is
that the problem is only visible when using the live media.

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