SX:CR CPU usage

I just realized that my CPU usage is significantly high, even when the system is idle. I notice the figure never below 30%.
Worst case happen when I accessing blogspot.com site, the usage is 100%!! This make the response is terribly slow.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

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Open Solaris snv49

I read an old entry in Ben Rockwoods' blog, said that if you already installed Solaris 10 GA, it is highly recommended to upgrade to Solaris Express Community Release (SXCR). Since then I was tempted to get my hands on this kind of Solaris

Finally last week I have the chance to taste it.
I downloaded all the 6 ISO file from Sun server,after registration. Then with my friend help, I burnt tem into CD. Thanks Dem.:)

Install routines almost like the old cousins. There also a bug? Since I chose to install Java Enterprise, at the end of the process I was asked to insert the CD contains this application. But the installer cannot find on the 6 CDs. Maybe I have to download them separately? Don't know. So like what I 've done in Solaris 10, I skipped the Java Enterprise and get ready to fine tuning my fresh installation.

First boot was not so impressive. Besides the time it takes, my box also experience kernel panic. Twice. Then I boot to failsafe mode. It was succesfull. Then rebooted the system to get login screen. This time there is no kernel panic.

Next step is to setup my onboard ethernet using Masa's nfo driver. Having some experience from Solaris 10, I go straight away to run install script. But since I forgot to create hostname.nfo0 file so the driver did not attached. Creating this file fixed up my problem instantly.

In my opinion this svn49 are more smart than the old cousin. Sound, mouse scroll button worked out of the box.
The application also more recent and complete. I have Firefox 1.5.0.6, Real Player 10, Rythmbox, GIMP, etc.
User interface also get improved. An example: I can switch among workspace by scrolling the mouse button over the workspace icon. Something I did not get from Solaris 10.
But I miss shutdown button – even when login as root. Maybe this is a step to secure the system? Nevermind. I found that I can shutdown the system by issuing poweroff command as root.

So the remaining task is to set up Blastwave package management and enabling watching DVD movie. I will do this later.

Restoring GRUB of my Linux partition

I know, this is maybe sound silly. But I always install a linux distro GRUB on MBR. Since usually I had more than one linux distro on my disc, after the installation process I have to edit the /boot/GRUB/menu.lst file by handand added parameter so GRUB can boot into each distros
I stuck to a problem when installing Solaris 10. Solaris boot manager – not GRUB since my version was released somewhere in 2005- cannot boot into my linux partition. I tried to search a kind of file menu.lst in Solaris partition but could not find one.

Then from a blog of Sun’s employee I knew that the solution is to install linux GRUB to it’s partition. And hopefully Solaris bootloader do the rest.

I get the installation CD of Archlinux, and boot the computer from CD. Select the option of installing bootloader, but this time I chose on /dev/hda1 where Archlinux resides.

I then reboot the computer. I choose my linux distro when Solaris boot manager asking what OS I want to boot into. Archlinux GRUB appears instantly and since there is no other option, it boots to Archlinux. Success

Now I have two kind of OS in my computer: Linux & Solaris. I wish to install more but my disc only 20 GB, which is effectively restrict me from installing other OS

Configuring NIC in Solaris 10

As previously mentioned, solaris did not recognize my onboard NIC. My motherboard is DFI LanParty UT nForce3 250 GB. The LAN chips manufacturer is Marvell 88E111 PHY. An internet site said what I need is a SKGE driver. I have no luck with this driver. The message said that driver success added to system, but failed to attach. Maybe since the driver could not find the hardware. Strange enough, because the same driver work well with same hardware. Later I knew that what important is the controller, which in this case is nForce3 250 GB chipset. The driver should attached to this controller.

Then I download drivers from Masa Murayama site. It is nfo driver .Unfortunately, I am unable to get it installed. The error messages is “ don't know hw to make 'install”.
I tried to bypass the make install step and proceed with the next step of installation, by launching install script. No result. But I can see from the message that the driver also work for nVidia NIC df. That's my ethernet id!!.

Googling again, with different keywords, I found myself reading a long threading on Sun's forum. Exactly explaining how to install the Masa' Murayama drivers. I found out the problem cause by gcc and make file path was not correct. So I added the path and restart the steps.

Finally the nfo driver successfully installed, and I just configure my dhcp setting to get online.

Thank's Masa:)

Installing Solaris 10

Almost two weeks now my computers running Sun’s Solaris 10. I don’t know the version. But it says SunOs 5.10. Actually I have the CD’s since last year. But due to hardware issue, I abandoned the OS until recently. My interest.. comes again after reading an article saying that Google’s trying this OS. Why not give it a chance…?

First try was not silk smooth. Partly because I didn’t know how to share swap memory between Linux and Solaris. Some documentation explained that both can share the swap, while official documentation from Sun explicitly told that Solaris must have it’s own swap. Also I allocated not much space for Solaris.

Previously I have 20 GB disc with 3 linux partitions, hosted Arch linux, Ubuntu 6.04 and Slackware 10.2. Later I have to merge the last two partitions to provide more space to Solaris. I decided to keep Arch because it is located on first partition and also due to it simplicity, speed, and lightweightness. But still when I finished editing the partitions, I can’t boot into my remaining linux partition .

To shorten the story, finally I can install Solaris to my computer. I have to repeat some stages since the steps a bit different from installing linux. Then I boot first time into my fresh Solaris.

It takes longer than my Arch linux or Slackware to get into graphical login. The first window manager I encountered is CDE. I am playing a bit until suddenly the display resolution become terrible. Looking at the docs, I launch kdmconfig to fix the problem. It brings me to the installation of Xorg (sound familiar). Upon complete the process, I reboot and choose the JDS environment. Tadaa…what a nice desktop there. Yes it is GNOME based.

But the system is crippled because I have no internet, sound and mouse scroll button didn’t work. Quite strange because the mouse works well during the installation. A quick workaround on file /etc/X11/xorg.conf fixed this issue. I changed the mouse protocol to “ImPS/2” and added line Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5 6 7” on mouse section.

Googling the net, I came up with solution for getting sound on. It says I have to add audio810 "pci10de,ea" on /etc/driver_aliases. At that time I don’t know the reason why I have to put pci10de,ea. Later I know that this is the device-id of NVidia sound controller :). And here I use driver for Intel’s i810 audio controller since there is no specific driver from NVidia available.

So the remaining biggest issues is internet connection. I will tell the story on another posting since this one is really interesting…or frustrating?


Note: I was really helped by SLAX, a nice linux live CD based on Slackware during the process of installing Solaris. Thank you very much Tomas….:)

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