On 15.03.10 10:54, Stephen Bunn wrote: > I recently decided to install osol on one of my machines. I have > previously had osol installed on this particular machine without any > issues. The only thing that has changed since then is a different video > card. The particular card is a Galaxy GeForce GTS 250. > > During boot-up of the live cd I receive the grub prompt, no matter what > option I select the system will lock after displaying the copyright > banner. If I attempt to boot using the -skv option the system locks > right after it display's the device path for the nvidia0 device. > > I will attempt to pull the video card out of another computer I have > these weekend just to double check but I'm 90% positive that the video > card is causing the issue (as I have had osol installed before). > > If there is any additional information that I have foolishly excluded > please let me know :)
if you can somehow make it boot, have a look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, this will most likely provide some more information. you can also check the HCL (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/) whether your card should work. HTH Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
