>> And why is is not starting >> even with the the nvidia-xconfig generated xorg.conf ? >> nvidia-xconfig is currently not smart enough to recognize it is being run on a card that needs the legacy driver.
Since you state this worked with Solaris 10 (100.14.19) and stopped working with OpenSolaris 2008.11 (177.80) it is likely you have an old GPU (3x or earlier).
