Solaris 10 on x86 laptop

I'm going to install solaris on x86 laptop (Fujitsu-Siemens P7010). It has Intel 855GME video controller and 1280x768 is default resolution.
I didn't find any information about support S-video in solaris, synaptics touchpad & ms/cf/mms reader.
I'm looking any information about this hardware.
thanks

Seriously the worst forum I've even seen. 3 days & not a single reply. Looks like noone cares about helping others here & you people call it GNU. What a joke. I'm going back to ubuntu.

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http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/x86-laptops.html

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I posted this on the Solaris JRE forum first but there is not much activity there. Perhaps anyone that reads this forum can assist me.
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Edited by: Fergus on Jul 6, 2008 2:22 AM
Edited by: Fergus on Jul 7, 2008 9:12 PM

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All
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*** Start configuring PortalServer... ***
|#]
[#|2006-05-06T19:47:11-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|
*** Start configuring PortalServer... ***
|#]
[#|2006-05-06T19:47:11-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|PortalServerConfigurator::configure() called...|#]
[#|2006-05-06T19:47:11-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|Selected Components List = '&5B;PortalServer&5D;'|#]
[#|2006-05-06T19:47:11-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|Configuration for '&5B;PortalServer&5D;' will happen now...|#]
[#|2006-05-06T19:47:11-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|PortalServerConfigurator::generatePSConfigXMLFile(..) called...|#]
[#|2006-05-06T19:47:11-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|/opt/SUNWportal/bin/psconfig |#]
[#|2006-05-06T19:47:11-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|--config |#]
[#|2006-05-06T19:47:11-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|/var/tmp/psconfig_web-zone_114695923134015116.xml |#]
[#|2006-05-06T19:47:11-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log||#]
[#|2006-05-06T19:47:36-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|
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[#|2006-05-06T19:47:36-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|
Output Log: |#]
[#|2006-05-06T19:47:36-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|Successfully created PSConfig.properties file|#]
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[#|2006-05-06T19:47:36-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|Successfully created PortalDomainConfig.properties file|#]
[#|2006-05-06T19:47:36-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|Validating the Input Config XML File|#]
[#|2006-05-06T19:47:36-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|Configuring Cacao Agent for Portal Software|#]
[#|2006-05-06T19:47:36-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|Connecting to Cacao MBean Server|#]
[#|2006-05-06T19:47:36-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|
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[#|2006-05-06T19:47:36-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log| at com.sun.portal.admin.common.util.AdminClientUtil.getJMXConnector(AdminClientUtil.java:114)|#]
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[#|2006-05-06T19:47:36-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log| ... 1 more|#]
[#|2006-05-06T19:47:36-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|Configuration failed for : PortalServer|#]
[#|2006-05-06T19:47:36-04:00|CONFIG|JavaES|Config|_versionID=1.0;_threadID=11;_SourceJavaFile=JDKLogger;_SourceMethodName=log|*** End configuring PortalServer***
|#]

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I have been Solaris 10 x86 on my Intel machines and never had any problem with SMC. However, things seems to have changed since
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Es: fffffffe, edi: 17dfe0, ebp: 7e40, esp: 7e20
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