> Peter Arnold wrote: > > > > > > I tried installing two like nVidia cards but > Solaris would not even boot. It seemed to get to the > device configuration stage then hang (for over half > an hour). I didn't prersue that issue as I had no > clue how to. > > > S10U3 suffers from a bug where the non-console > graphics board > will mistakenly send I/O cycles to the console > graphics board. Usually > this just results in a scrambled screen, but I guess > it could cause hangs.
One or more of the following seems to have fixed this. I say seems as it did hang once out of about 5 reboots while I was swapping back and forth between 32 and 64 bit. * update to latest recommended and security patches * update to patch 123776-03 SunOS 5.10_x86: pcplusmp driver patch * touch /reconfigure # does reconfig on reboot * mkdir /dev/junk; mv /dev/fb* /dev/junk # remove framebuffer dev links * shutdown, install 2nd card and boot > Any chance of trying the latest Solaris Express > release? Umm no. This is a work machine and I'd have a bit too much explaining to do. I'm now running two identical nvidia cards with the nvidia drivers as opposed to the Xorg nv drivers. This message posted from opensolaris.org
