What version of Solaris did you install?
What "configuration test" said the system was okay? (Do you mean the screen
with the 16 oval color buttons and big "yes" or "no" buttons to click if it's
okay? That would be an old version of Solaris with the old X configuration
tool we've moved off of.)
As for the "userlevel 3" and "userlevel 5" - those sound like the Linux run
levels, and not applicable to Solaris. (On Solaris, "init 3" is multiuser
plus servers, "init 5" is power off.)
To get to console, try pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server.
Release the keys, wait for X to restart, and repeat 4 or 5 times, and the
system will figure out something is broken and stop trying to start X.
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Patrik Hasibuan wrote:
> Dear my friends,
>
> I am a new comer in Solaris. I usually work with Windows, SuSE and puppy
> Linux.
>
> It's the first time for me to use Solaris. I got a new job as a junior
> programmer in a Software House. I must adapt to my new environment that's why
> I work with Solaris because this company I join works mostly on Solaris and
> SuSE Linux.
>
> I installed the Solaris on my 'in Duty laptop', namely an ECS. I chose NVidia
> video card and ECS monitor for the xwindows. The 'Configuration Test' looked
> OK. It was smooth displaying the colored bubbles image. So really looked OK.
>
> But once my new Solaris starts it always comes white flickers without ending.
> It diplay only the white flickers without ending. I can not see anything on
> my monitor except only the white flickers. I don't know how to switch the
> userlevel to 'userlevel 3' (full solaris without XWindows working) out from
> the 'userlevel 5' (full Solaris with XWindows working). I also can not find
> the 'login to console' button because all I can see only the white flickers.
> Oooo...my god....!!!!
> So all I can do now in such condition is only pressing the switch-off button
> and disturbs the file-system.
>
> SSH connection has not been worked because the NIC has not configured....
>
> I tried to modified the file a kind of "/etc/inittab" as I find in SuSE Linux
> but again this threat/strategy does not work in this case. Linux can not
> write "ufs" partition.
> I tried to re-install my Solaris for have a look if the installer please me
> to install on ext2 or ext3 or reiserfs partition but the 'solaris installer
> program' allows for installing Solaris 'ONLY ON ufs'.
> So I am perfectly bumped into a tough dilematic problem. Poor I am!!!
>
> I looked up through a very..very... long wanders with google and yahoo,
> surfing in the internet for finding if anybody ever bumped into the same case
> of mine. They said that I have to update my Xorg package and install the
> NVidia driver from ftp://download.nvidia.com . But again of course I can not
> update the Xorg and new graphic card driver.
> flickers....flickers....flickers......only the white flickers all I can see.
>
> I wonder why XWindows "configuration test" says OK but XWindows does not run
> properly. This case shows that the configuration tools is not accurate.
>
> So I beg any advise from all of you my friends in this mailing-list.
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
