Scrambled display

Biribi

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Nov 7, 2009, 5:34:11 PM11/7/09

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Hello

I've just installed Solaris 10 (10/09) on x86, but I can't connect to it
as the display is totally scrambled.

The video card is a geforce 210. According to Sun docs, the last release
of Solaris contains the nvidia drivers.

I tried to boot in fail safe mode, but I can't find the xorg.conf nor
the nvidia-xconfig files.

I'm in fact totally stuck. Any help ?

Thanks

Damien

Chris Ridd

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Nov 8, 2009, 3:31:29 AM11/8/09

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On 2009-11-07 22:34:11 +0000, Biribi <biribi...@free.fr> said:

> Hello
>
> I've just installed Solaris 10 (10/09) on x86, but I can't connect to
> it as the display is totally scrambled.
>
> The video card is a geforce 210. According to Sun docs, the last
> release of Solaris contains the nvidia drivers.
>
> I tried to boot in fail safe mode, but I can't find the xorg.conf nor
> the nvidia-xconfig files.

Xorg autoconfigures itself, and generally doesn't need an xorg.conf
unless it goes wrong/you want something different. So a lack of
xorg.conf is not (generally) a problem.

> I'm in fact totally stuck. Any help ?

Does /var/log/Xorg.0.log contain any clues?

The Nvidia driver from
<http://www.nvidia.com/object/solaris_display_190.42.html> claims to
support your card. Is Sun including that driver version?

--
Chris

LnxGnome

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Nov 9, 2009, 2:52:56 AM11/9/09

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In 10/05, I have /usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig from the NVDAgraphics
package.

I you can't find that, you can copy the 'built-in' config lines from /
var/log/Xorg.0.log to /etc/X11/xorg.conf (just those lines, not the
whole file), and adjust as needed.

You DO need an xorg.conf if X fails to probe your monitor correctly
(it's not direct attached / KVMs returning substandard info). You can
best tell this by digging though /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Biribi

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Nov 9, 2009, 4:02:15 PM11/9/09

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>
> In 10/05, I have /usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig from the NVDAgraphics
> package.
>
> I you can't find that, you can copy the 'built-in' config lines from /
> var/log/Xorg.0.log to /etc/X11/xorg.conf (just those lines, not the
> whole file), and adjust as needed.
>
> You DO need an xorg.conf if X fails to probe your monitor correctly
> (it's not direct attached / KVMs returning substandard info). You can
> best tell this by digging though /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>

The problem is I can't connect to solaris and investigate because the
display is unusable : X is launched normally, but the screen is in no
way readable.

I booted in fail safe mode and typed "svcadm disable cde-login" but the
command failed (pattern not recognized)

What's the way to disable the graphical login in fail safe mode, in
order to check X11 and eventually reconfigure it ?

Damien

John D Groenveld

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Nov 9, 2009, 9:42:04 PM11/9/09

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In article <4af88357$0$965$ba4a...@news.orange.fr>,

Biribi <biribi...@free.fr> wrote:
>What's the way to disable the graphical login in fail safe mode, in
>order to check X11 and eventually reconfigure it ?

However, you should be able to boot single-user from the GRUB
menu:
<URL:http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2379/fvzqr?a=view>
| docs.sun.com Home > OpenSolaris System Administrator Collection
| > System Administration Guide: Basic Administration > 12.
| Booting a Solaris System (Tasks) > Booting an x86 Based System
| by Using GRUB (Task Map) > x86: How to Boot a System to Run
| Level S (Single-User Level)

From single-user, you should be able to disable the graphical-login
service, exit to boot multi-user, and then pkgrm the non-working
nVidia packages and install the version required. by

John
groe...@acm.org