Hi I've just done a fresh install Solaris 10 U5 on an Acer Veriton 5900Pro after having trashed mu U3 with a OSS sound driver re-install. It has an onboard "Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller" and two nVidia FX 5200 s running xinerama.
I can set the bios to search onboard OR PCI first for video cards. My first problem is that if I set the bios to search PCI for video cards, it finds an nVidia but will not completely boot. It gets through grub, tells me it's booting solaris version blah (about 3 lines) then hangs. The little underscore "cursor" seems to progressively jump down the console screen but nothing else. I cannot get any response from the console not can I ssh to it, ping it or otherwise get any response. I get similar if I try and boot from cdrom If I set the bios to search for the onboard video the PC boots with all console output going to the onboard video and then, because of the xorg.conf file I saved from Solaris 10 u3, it outputs graphics to the two nvidia 5200s set up in xinerama. While this isn't a huge problem I'd like to have the boot console output to the primary nVidia PCI card so I can see what's happening. I had this previously under Solaris 10 U3 but not sure how. I've since updated my nVidia drivers from the bundled ones to the current NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-169.12.run but this doesn't fix anything (except the odd crash) I've had a bit of a play around trying to recreate devices thinking that if /dev/fb pointed at the same device that fb1 pointed at it might send console output to the nvidia but that got pretty ugly. # ls -sla /dev/ | egrep 'fb|vidia|disp' 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Apr 29 08:13 fb -> /devices/pci at 0,0/display at 2:text-0 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 23 12:45 fb0 -> fbs/text-0 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Apr 23 12:45 fb1 -> fbs/nvidia0 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Apr 23 12:45 fb2 -> fbs/nvidia1 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Apr 23 12:45 fbs 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Apr 22 10:04 nvidia0 -> fbs/nvidia0 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Apr 22 10:04 nvidia1 -> fbs/nvidia1 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Apr 22 10:04 nvidia2 -> fbs/nvidia2 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Apr 22 10:04 nvidia3 -> fbs/nvidia3 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Apr 22 10:04 nvidia4 -> fbs/nvidia4 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Apr 22 10:04 nvidia5 -> fbs/nvidia5 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Apr 22 10:04 nvidia6 -> fbs/nvidia6 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Apr 22 10:04 nvidia7 -> fbs/nvidia7 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 38 Apr 22 10:04 nvidiactl -> ../devices/pseudo/nvidia at 255:nvidiactl 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Apr 23 12:14 origfbstuff 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Apr 23 12:24 origfbstuff2 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Apr 21 17:41 vt00 -> fb # Why so many nvidia# ? Also, under Solaris 10 U3 there was a patch that updated Xorg to 7.2 however S10u5 still seems to have Xorg 6.8 with no such patch to upgrade. Any known reason why? Thanks Peter Arnold This message posted from opensolaris.org
