Hi all,
I just installed OpenSolaris 2008.11 in vmware on my Linux box as I want to
try compiling some code with opensolaris.
Now when I boot the installed image i have problems. After booting into text
mode, i am initially presented with the console login prompt, then the boot
sequence seems to try and start the X server. After the boot has tried (and
failed) to start the X server, if i then try to type anything at the command
prompt (to login) it seems to generate a lot of control characters. For
example attempting to login as root, i.e. typing the word "root" produces
lines like:
^...@^@^...@^@^A^(^...@mr ............
A few other bits of background information that may help with this problem:
Upon booting i get the following warnings:
WARNING: Time-of-day chip unresponsive; dead batteries?
WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci15ad,1976 at 7,2 (uhci): No SOF interrupts have been
recieved, this USB UHCI host controller is unusable (This one i only get
sometimes)
NOTICE: MPO is disab;led because memory is interleaved
WARNING: BIOS microcode patch for AMD Athlon(tm) 64/Opteron(tm) processor
erratum 131 was not detected; updating your systems BIOS to a version
containing this microcode patch is HIGHLY recommended or erroneous system
operation may occur.
Also I noticed that after trying to enter a few things on the command
prompt, i got a warning:
ttymon: Warning -- speed of (console) may not be supported by the system
I am not sure if this is the cause of the problem or a symptom of it
Now, the system works fine when I boot from the live cd.
Now if during the boot i attempt to login as soon as possible, it logs in
fine (key mapping seem to be working fine until X is attempted to be
started). Note after a small time, the boot procedure attempts to start X
which fails. After failing to start X is when the keyboard stops working.
Now if i login quickly and run startx before the boot process attempts to
start X, then i get the following errors:
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file
Drivers to try are: "vmware" "fbdev" "vesa" "vga"
(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Symbol map for key <BKSP> redefined
Using last definition for conflicting fields
.... more key map warnings
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
XIO: fatal IO error 146 (Connection refused) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining
Anyhow, I am just asking to see if anyone has any idea what is going on and
how i can fix it?
Thanks,
Brendon.
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