Hi,
Only the very latest Solaris Express Community Release ( Build 76 )
Comes with the latest Nvidia Driver.
NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-100.14.19
Your Nvidia card is rather recent so If you have a build from earlier
this year,
the card is not supported by the older nvidia driver.
This can usually be solved by downloading the new nvidia driver from
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
and running it on the system .
I would first try to login immediately after seeing the Login: promtp
THis needs to be done quickly as you have a fast machine.
if you manage to login the Xserver will backoff.
Another optin is to temporarily replace you excelent graphics card with
another one like an ATI card where the Nvida driver wont load.
so you will get a text login instead.
did you try [ CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE + BACKSPACE ]
thats the Hotkeys to kill an Xserver.
---- and finally a more advanced breakin atempt: ----
As you have never been able to create a user account you can only login
as
root on the console.
However if you start the system up in failsafe mode and mount the
root partition and the /export/home partition .
You can MANUALLY with an editor crreate the entries in
/a/etc/passwd
/a/etc/shadow
/a/etc/group
that defines a user account ,
and then MANUALLY create
/export/home/username
with the correct ownership and correct permissions.
Then the next time you start up the system you can login remotely
using SSH over TCPIP. provided thath DHCP or a fixed IP adress is used
on the system .
after login you can switch user to the root account su(1M)
download the new Nvidia driver and install it.
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But reinstalling with Build 76 might be simpler :-)
//Lars
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