Ken Mays wrote: > I did a basic boot of a new U40 workstation with the Nvidia Quadro FX 5500 > and ran into the Xserver not starting under both Solaris 10u3 and SXCE b65 > x86 in 64-bit mode. There was some mention of the Keyboard driver, but mainly > it recognize my graphics card. Well!Now the SXCE b65 part was when I just > inserted the install DVD and tried to get the installation screen to come up > in Interactive mode (select language screen). This happened when you select > 'Solaris Developer Edition'. > > I rebooted and selected 'Solaris Express' which kicked the install into > 32-bit mode. Amazingly, the SXCE b65 install screen recognized my graphics > card and I could install Solaris on the Ultra 40 workstation. Still > installing.... > > A show stopper in installing Solaris Developer Edition on a U40 using this > card so far. I thought the Xorg NV 64-bit driver would kick in, but something > was amiss. The nv driver would be used on the S10U3 install (32 bit) and postinstall boot (32 bit) since the NVIDIA driver is not bundled until U4. The nv driver will be used on SXCE b65 install (32 bit), but the NVIDIA driver (64 bit) will be used post install.
Since the X server did not start also on S10U3 and there was a keyboard issue, what additional clue is there this is a problem unique to SXCE b65 or has anything to do with the graphics card? FWIW, SXCE b65 and b66 had no issues installing or booting afterwards on a my U40M2 with FX 5500. However, I don't have a Sun keyboard connected to this system.
