> John Ruschmeyer wrote: > >> John Ruschmeyer wrote: > >>> Should I really be running Solaris 10? > >> Yes. Ultra 5's are too old for Solaris 11 Express > - > >> the support > >> for their video boards is no longer included. > > > > I guess I have to take your word for it. > > > > I was able to install the console framebuffer > support for the Mach64 used in the U5. I guess I just > assumed that the native Xorg support for the Mach64 > would then be enough. > > There is no mach64 support in the Solaris Xorg > packages for SPARC. > You might be able to get something working, like > Martin Bochnig did with > his SPARC Xorg driver ports, but it's not going to be > supported or provided > with the OS.
I haven't checked into that one yet, but it sounds a bit like an idea I considered- building Xorg from the NetBSD pkgsrc tree. > Ten years is an awfully long lifetime > for a desktop computer, > so it's not like the end came quickly (and Solaris 10 > will still be supporting > it for years to come, so it's not even completely > dead yet). Cool. Of course, it makes me wonder if I could just install Xsun from the Solaris 10 media and change the default X server on my installation. > > By any chance, can I just set it up with a headless > xdm config (i.e., xdmcp to remote clients, but no > local X server)? What all do I need to install just > to get gnome working (again assuming either a remote > X session or, perhaps, vnc)? > > Yes - 'pkg install slim_cluster' will give you the > same set of packages > as you'd get from the GUI installer on the LiveCD. I couldn't find slim_cluster, 'pkg install slim_install' installed something like 200 additional packages and I now have a working gnome. > You'd then have to > able XDMCP in the gdm configuration, since > secure-by-default means that's > not enabled out of the box. You can also google for > instructions on > configuring gdm to run Xvnc instead of Xorg for the > default "local" server. Does the Sol 11 Express gdm support XDMCP or is it the rewritten one which hadn't added that back yet? (Or is that just Ubuntu?) If so, then I might have to fall all the way back to plain xdm. Thanks for all the help so far. John -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
