Hello Lars,
Thanks a lot for your in-depth response, it helped and yesterday I already 
excited the Solaris GUI :-) I downloaded the driver you suggested, copied it to 
a Flash card and was gladly surprised when the card was recognized automaticlly 
by Solaris :-) I was unable to login at that quick moment when the Login prompt 
is shown - either my CPU is too fast or I'm too slow ;-), don't know. However, 
the trick with editing the GRUB record suggested in the thread 
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=159251&#159251 by Ether 
(thanks to him, BTW) allowed me to login in single user mode and disable the 
GUI with svcadm. Previously I just pressed Ctrl + D too early - when it asked 
for password for su.
By the way, to answer your question: Ctrl + Alt + Backspace + Backspace didn't 
allow me to get the console.
So, now I'm joined the Solaris community :-). No sound and network yet, but I 
hope to set up them soon :-) Thank you one more time.

For those who faced the same problem, here are the exact steps that worked for 
me:

1. Download the NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-100.14.19.run driver from 
http://www.nvidia.com/object/solaris_display_100.14.19.html.
2. Copy it to a Flash card or burn it on a CD.
3. Boot the system and press e to edit the Solaris entry in the GRUB menu: add 
-s to the kernel line - this will boot the system into single user mode this 
time (the modification is not saved after rebooting).
4. Disable graphical login by executing this command:
svcadm disable cde-login
5. Press Ctrl + D to switch to multi-user mode and log in as root.
6. Navigate to the location of the NVIDIA driver you downloaded and execute 
this command to install it:
sh NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-100.14.19.run
7. Execute reboot -- -r to cause a configuration reboot. You will see a new 
entry in the GRUB menu, it ends with the "transient" word. Select it and boot.
 
 
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