bruehlicke wrote:
> I just switched from Solaris 10 to OpenSolaris 2008/11 so this is most
> likely a newbee question ...
>
> All nice got it working on one screen. BUT - how to I configure my
> nvidia card ? When I start System->Preferences->NVidia X Server
> Settings I get "You do not appear to be using NVIDIA X driver" and the
> System->Preferences->Screen Resolution app dose not recognize the
> second screen.
What graphics card are you using? (For instance, what is the output from
"pfexec scanpci" for that card.)
> Trying to use the nvidia-xconfig to create a xorg.conf will make the
> system not start in X anymore and the only way is to ssh into it form
> a other box and delete the xorg.conf file and restart.
>
> So I wonder
>
> 1) Is OpenSolaris by default using Xorg ? And why is is not starting
> even with the the nvidia-xconfig generated xorg.conf ?
Yes - Xorg is not just the default, it's the only choice.
As for why it didn't work, you haven't given us enough information to
say - try attaching your /var/log/Xorg.0.log made when using that xorg.conf
file to see what errors it gave.
> 2) How I shall get this baby running with my 2 old CTR screens for
> which I have a working xorg.conf file ?
> 3) The idea is of course I want to install the new 180.29 driver from
> Nvidia - but even after pkg uninstall NVDAgraphics it does not look to
> use it ... hmmm
Is your hardware supported by that driver? Did you reboot after installing it?
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
