On 9/11/06, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote: > I had a working Solaris nv_44 installation on my new server (except > for many hundred dollars of hot-swap hardware apparently not working > with Solaris yet, grump), with X (sun server) working with the mouse, > keyboard, and monitor. > > I have now moved that physical system downstairs (first tests were on > the dining room table); so it's plugged into a different keyboard and > mouse and monitor (same size and very similar specs though), and the > keyboard and mouse are connected through a KVM switch down here. > > And the X logon screen fails to come up, and when I boot in single > user mode and run kdmconfig it segfaults. If I unconfigure with > kdmconfig -u, that completes without error, but a new kdmconfig > segfaults. I imagine I can now boot the system without the X logon > screen trying to come up, though I haven't tried yet. I made sure the > KVM switch was set to this server at boot, so it would see the mouse > from the beginning. > > The install-discuss list suggested I'd get better results over here...
A from-scratch install of snv_44 this time selected Xorg, and it came up working, except no mouse. The mouse down here is a PS/2 mouse switched through a Linksys Proconnect 4-port KVM switch, fairly old. The computer has a PS/2 mouse port, so this really ought to work. I made sure the mouse remained switched to the server throughout the install. Running kdmconfig segfaults, as I reported before. Anybody interested in the core file? I tried plugging in a USB mouse I had lying around, and the system immediately recognized it and started moving the cursor around the screen and all that. And kdmconfig no longer segfaults; so the problem is somehow associated with the mouse, I guess that has to mean. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
