I bought an <a href="http://www.intel.com/Products/Desktop/Motherboards/DQ35JO/DQ35JO-overview.htm";>Intel DQ35JO</a> motherboard thinking it would be pretty ideal for a ZFS server. 6 SATA ports, low-power GMA3100 graphics, e1000g ethernet. It's even <a href="http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/details/3323.html";>in the HCL</a> as verified working. <p/> Unfortunately things didn't go very well tonight. Halfway through the install a bunch of junk <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/mrneutron/2676708728/";>appears on the lower third of the screen</a>, and then the install crashes. The GMA3100 has no dedicated vram, and splits off some of the main memory for video. It looks a lot like solaris is just writing data into the video area. <p/> There's a line in the BIOS for "<a href="http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel915g/sb/CS-011683.htm";>DVMT</a> Mode" which I set to "fixed", thinking that I might make things simpler but no luck; I still get the junk on my screen and a crash. Very disappointing. Any suggestions, apart from just returning the board and buying a non-integrated board and a video card with dedicated vram? This message posted from opensolaris.org
