Hi Bob, * Bob Perkins (Bob.Perkins at Sun.COM) wrote: > Hi All, > > My home machine was originally set up w/o live upgrade in mind. At long last > I was able to backup my system w/ufsdump - repartition the disk - ufsrestore > and get my OS back without ruining anything! (I'm not an admin - I just play > one on tv) > > So... I performed a live upgrade and reboot to snv_67. The system comes up > fine until it is time to paint the screen.. then I get a black "X" for a > mouse pointer - that works perfectly, but a grey noisy background and that is > it.. > > I've tried booting to single user and running kdmconfig - but w/o success. > kdmconfig says unknown terminal type.. I did make it work once and got a > screen that was acceptable - but after it wrote out the xorg.conf (I think).. > I got back the black X and grey noise background. > > Any suggestions?
I presume this is an x86 box? I would move /etc/X11/xorg.conf out of the way (just rename it to something else) and then try to start X. Xorg tries very hard now-a-days to self-configure itself. Cheers, -- Glenn
