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@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 > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
