Dave Miner wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> On 17/06/07, Shawn Walker <binarycrusader at gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 17/06/07, James Mansion <james at mansionfamily.plus.com> wrote: >>> > Didn't get very far with the GUI install. This board has an Intel >>> > 950-type graphics onboard. >>> >>> It would really help if you told us what version of Solaris you were >>> trying to install. >>> >>> Was it Solaris 10 Update 3? >>> >>> Solaris Express Developer Edition and what build (b67)? >>> >>> Solaris Express Community Edition and what build (b64)? >> >> Argh. I just noticed you had 05/07 in your subject. That must be >> build 57? >> >> Have you tried a newer build of SXCE? >> > > SXDE 5/07 is based on 64a, so while there are a couple of newer builds > (66 just having been released) it's pretty recent. Posting this > question to the X community (xwindow-discuss at opensolaris.org) might > get a more helpful response. > > Dave I don't think there's a fundamental problem with the X server - Belenix 0.6 does detect the i810 and come up (albeit limited to 1600x1200, while the newer intel driver would probably automatically do 1920x1200). So I think its really an issue with the install CD/DVD configuration, in terms of whether the hardware detection is setting up the AGP support for Intel.
I tried again with the text mode installer and it got as far as offering me a list of disk partitions on c0d1 and their types, but unfortunately: - while it recognised an existing Solaris partition, that is unfortunately my Linux swap - while it recognised that there was 100GB free, it wasn't clear how to get it to create a primary partition with the free space and start the install I've since run up Linux and used Linux fdisk to recreate the 100GB primary partition I'd deleted and set it to the alternate Solaris partition type (bf from memory), and I'll have another pop at the install. Usability here isn't what it could be - I've been installing PC operating systems for a while, albeit not Solaris, and I've struggled. Is there a way I can convince grub to load up the AGP support needed?
