X On Solaris 10

[Ric_]

I want to install Solaris 10 on a HP nx6110 laptop - I have a reason for this!

The problem I'm having is getting X running and I need some help. When X tries to start, the screen goes black, flickers a few times and then I get booted back to the prompt... not posting from the laptop so can't easily copy the X output but I can get it if needs be.

Ideas?

[CyberNerd]

sounds like your installer got further than mine. I'm on first boot and instantly get a hardware detection screen that doesn't detect the keyboard - hence I can't proceed !?! Solaris 10 32bit AMD.

[Geoff]

I want to install Solaris 10 on a HP nx6110 laptop - I have a reason for this!

The problem I'm having is getting X running and I need some help. When X tries to start, the screen goes black, flickers a few times and then I get booted back to the prompt... not posting from the laptop so can't easily copy the X output but I can get it if needs be.

Ideas?

Your graphics card isn't supported/setup correctly.

As for getting output, use a serial console. Also X writes a debug log out to /var/log/XFree86.0.log (assuming it's XFree86/X.org based).

[Ric_]

I can view the output in the XFree86.0.log and it seems to suggest that it's the graphics card - it also mentions something about the keyboard but says that this isn't a 'critical' warning.

The chipset in the nx6110 is an Intel 915 - an unsupported one I have tried that suggested i810 driver. I thought I would try the VGA driver but now I get dodgy monitor errors

Will try to get some more messages tonight.

[Geoff]

if there's a generic SVGA or VESA driver I would try that too. If you can, post the relevant chunks of the log file.

Just out of curiosity, why Slowaris?

[Ric_]

@Geoff: I will also try the VESA driver tonight. BTW - it's to run some Sun management tools that are being a pain to install under Windows and Linux (and Solaris ).

[ChrisH]

Aha so buying those fancy smancy Sun servers starting to be a problem huh ?

[Ric_]

Aha so buying those fancy smancy Sun servers starting to be a problem huh ?

Want to try the fancy smancy Sun software :P