James Mansion wrote: > This was on a Dell T105 with the broadcom ethernet disabled - and a PCI > nVidia > graphics card. > > Monitor is on the nVidia, rather than the integrated ATI (that you can't > turn off). > > The initial boot went OK with the grub screen and the initial > OpenSolaris copyright > displayed, but after that things go wrong with the cursor at the bottom > of the screen. > > It moves around from side to side when you press return, Ctrl-C etc. > > Having taken the graphics card out and booted with the display on the > integrated > graphics, I suspect that the boot was going normally and asking me for > the zone and > keyboard type - but only on the integrated graphics. > > Every other OS that I tried on the machine before the card came out (eg > Vista and > OpenSuse) worked OK - I believe the text mode stuff goes to both cards > and the > graphics favours an addin card rather than integrated, which seems a > decent default > even if I might want to reconsider if playing with Cuda. > > Would it be straightforward to fix? It was certainly confusing, not > least the inconsistency > between the grub/copyright display and the behaviour as soon as any > interaction is > needed. >
James, I'd recommend asking on xwin-discuss, as this is really an X driver issue and the expertise is in that community. Dave
