Solaris 10 Beta: Moving from Xsun to Xorg

[Jan Exss]

I just realized that the latest Beta of Solaris 10 x86 (b69, 10/04) is
running the Xorg sever as default. And in contrast to earlier XFree86
based ports from Sun, the VMware driver has not been removed!

It has never been so easy to come to an acceptable video resolution in
Solaris in VMware. For me, it took a little while to find out how to
configure Xorg, so in case someone needs an idea:

- Leave the VGA mode Xserver by selecting "Command Line Login" from the
"Options" menu.
- According to docs.sun.com, you can't use kdmconfig
- You could run "/usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg -configure", but it does not work
for me (screen turns black and hangs)...
- Instead, run /usr/X11R6/bin/xorgconfig

This is what I have answered (1024x768/24, US keyboard):

Enter a protocol number: 1
Do you want to enable Emulate3Buttons? n
Mouse device: [ENTER]
Enter a number to choose the keyboard: 7
Enter a number to choose the country: 1
Please enter a variant name for 'us' layout: [ENTER]
XKB options: [ENTER]
hsync: 10
vertical sync: 2
identifier for your monitor: [ENTER]
Do you want to look at the card database? y
Enter a number to choose the corresponding card definition: 29
video memory: 8
identifier for your video card definition: [ENTER]
list of modes (resolutions): 3
Which modes? 4
virtual screen that is larger than...? n
list of modes (resolutions): 4
default depth: 5
Shall I write it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf? y

Leaving the command line console should restart the Xorg server in full
color mode.

There is still one problem: The Java Desktop is not starting and puts me
back to the login screen. Starting "gnome-session" form the failsave
terminal ends in a core dump. Okay, it's still a beta...

However, CDE is running fine.

Jan.

[Lorenzo Varela]

Hey, Thanks a lot for this! It worked fine.

[dennis]

On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 23:28:40 +0100, Jan Exss wrote:

> There is still one problem: The Java Desktop is not starting and puts me
> back to the login screen. Starting "gnome-session" form the failsave
> terminal ends in a core dump. Okay, it's still a beta...
>
> However, CDE is running fine.
>
> Jan.

Jan,
b72 seems to have "fixed" the Java Desktop issue. I was experiencing the
same behaviour you saw with b69, but w/72, the Java Desktop starts &
runs just fine!!

-Dennis