Thanks Alan, that piece of info seems to be the missing link in all of this. I have no problem installing via CLI/console, but does that mean I wouldn't be able to give the user a GUI desktop even if he connects to the server via the network? thanks robin
>>> Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> 6/14/2010 3:32 PM >>> rabindranath seunarine singh wrote: > My apologies in advance if I'm posting this in the wrong place. I have a > Netra240 server and I'd like to use a video card so I can get a graphical > desktop. I put in a SIS 6326 PCI card, but my monitor just goes to sleep. > Does anyone know if I need to activate any settings in the server hardware to > use a non-Sun card? SPARC systems are not PC's and cannot use PC video cards as is - the system firmware will only be able to display on cards with OpenBoot PROM support, while most PC video cards only have PC BIOS support. (They won't work in Macs either, which also don't have PC BIOS'es, unless they support OpenFirmware as well.) You'll find it much easier to connect a serial line for the console than to get a non-Sun card to work. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ... *
_______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
