Brian, Here's a bug on Dell laptop that is similar with your M9. CR 6683239 Updated P2 xserver/devices_inte Xorg stops working with snv_86.
-Simon Brian Cameron wrote: > I just installed Nevada build 86 on my Toshiba Tecra M9 laptop with > Nvidia graphics card, and there seems to be some problems with the way > the Xserver and console-login interact. > > If I boot up Nevada into console-login mode, it works great. I can > shutdown the machine and restart over and over with no problems. > > However, if I start the Xserver, then it works the first time just > fine. As it boots up I see console messages echoed to the screen > before the display manager starts up. When I shut down and reboot, I > then do not see any console text echoed to the screen. If I have the > system setup for console login, then the screen just stays blank and I > ca not do anything but just poweroff. > > If I have the normal default behavior of having the display manager > start automatically, then the system seems to recover and the black > screen is replaced with the login screen. However, I can not access > the console. If I stop the display manager service, use "exit to > console" in CDE login, etc. then I just see a black screen and > the only thing I can do is poweroff. > > My system is dual-boot with Windows. Oddly, I notice that if I > boot into Windows, then shut down, then reboot into Solaris, then > I never see this problem. As long as I always boot into Windows > before booting into Solaris, then I can always log into the console. > At least until I start the Xserver. It sort of seems that Solaris > leaves the graphics card in an odd state on shutdown and does not > reset it properly on reboot. > > I had a similar, but slightly different, problem when installing > Nevada 86 from CD. The first CD started okay, but when it rebooted > before installing the 2nd CD, the screen went blank. Fortunately I > was able to navigate the install blind by hitting the Return key > when the CD light stopped blinking and switching the CD's when it > would eject the previous one. The only difference was that in this > situation the screen went blank after the Nvidia logo was shown > when the Xserver was starting up rather than immediately. > > I've tried a number of things to fix this, but have had no success: > > - Tried backporting the Xserver to build 85. > - Tried running nvidia-xconfig to create an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. > - Tried commenting out OpenGL from the xorg.conf file > > Any ideas? Anybody else seeing anything like this? I wonder if > people just have not noticed this problem. Since people probably > do not access console login much, you might not notice that its broken > if you don't see the text messages show up on boot. However, it is > a real pain to have to poweroff on the odd occasion when the Xserver > or display manager dies, or if you shutdown the display manager to > switch to using a different display manager, etc. > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
