Right - the HCL website mainly just covers x86 hardware, and is very incomplete
for video cards in any case.
Of course you can also run GNOME on a SPARC server using remote graphics display
over the X11 or VNC protocols, or as a Sun Ray server, so local graphics aren't
necessarily needed, depending on what you're trying to do.
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
mary ding wrote:
> Karen:
>
> There is support for XVR-50,
> XVR-100, XVR-300 & XVR-2500.
>
>
>
> Karen Tung wrote:
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>> You mentioned that you to run GNOME on your SPARC system.
>> I just want to point out that only 1 SPARC frame buffer is support in
>> OpenSolaris
>> at this time. So, depending on whether the frame buffer on your
>> system is supported,
>> you might or might not be able to use GNOME.
>>
>> See the OpenSolaris HCL to find out whether your hardware is supported.
>>
>> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/os/
>>
>> --Karen
>>
>> On 02/16/10 11:56, Keith Mitchell wrote:
>>> The easiest method would be to:
>>>
>>> pkg install babel_install
>>> pkg uninstall babel_install slim_install
>>>
>>> This will result in an environment much like what's given by the liveCD.
>>>
>>> On 02/16/10 11:48 AM, Matt Hatley wrote:
>>>> I hate asking such a baby bird question, I was hoping for a pointer,
>>>> some procedures, even a "look here" RTFM is welcome :).
>>>>
>>>> On the TTY installer page
>>>> (http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/Text+Install+b131+Notes),
>>>> it says:
>>>>
>>>> "Gnome packages are not installed (but can be added later using
>>>> pkg(1))"
>>>>
>>>> Was wondering, can anyone point me to some docs or provide a simple
>>>> set of procedures to add GNOME, GDM, etc., so that a functional
>>>> windowing system will work on SPARC after a TTY install, please?
>>>> I'm hoping to find a succinct list that includes: GNOME, GDM, GUI
>>>> admin tools& base applications that get installed when using the
>>>> "Live CD". I suspect others may be working on the same problem.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Matt
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