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Summary: - bugs vs build 129 - need updated web pages (30 builds old), Opensolaris.org. - need better user guide HW config: x64 desktop running build 129 OpenSolaris and Nvidia graphics card. ========== Today, for the first time, I wanted to try virtual consoles. I went to the project pages on opensolaris.org; http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+vconsole/ I could not find information that is current. So they I read the man page, and tried enabling svcadm enable svc:/system/console-login:vt2 It failed. When I typed svcs -xv, I found that SMF did not enable the dependant service; root at zbit:~# svcs -xv svc:/system/vtdaemon:default (vtdaemon for virtual console secure switch) State: disabled since December 14, 2009 11:07:27 AM PST Reason: Disabled by an administrator. See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-05 See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M vtdaemon Impact: 3 dependent services are not running: svc:/system/console-login:vt2 svc:/system/console-login:vt3 svc:/system/console-login:vt4 So I had to manually enable; # svcadm enable svc:/system/vtdaemon:default I then tried, as per the man page, ALT + F2. Nothing. So then I tried ALT + CNTRL + F2 and the display (Xorg?) crashed. Nothing could reset the display except for hardware reset of system. I repeated this process and gave up. So, the real questions are; - Does virtual console project work with OpenSolaris build 129? - If so, where is a simple "step by step" guide for turning it on. - Why is it not on-by-default? - Does it get tested with each new build of OpenSolaris? - Why does the dependant vtdaemon service not get automatically started when I svcadm enable console-login:vt2? The entire idea behind SMF was to automatically handle dependencies. Sincere Thanks, Neal Note: I am not on this mailing list, please add neal.pollack at sun.com in reply.
