> The offical NVIDIA driver that installs with SXDE should support your
> video card, but the driver used by the installer in graphical mode is
> the open 'nv' driver and that isn't updated as often. (It probably saves
> space in the RAM disk.). SXDE should work fine if you do a regular
> text-based install without installing the driver in addition.
>
Last night I ran the text installer and when it finished the built in
nvida driver worked fine. I was really surprised that the graphical
installer wouldn't run, but the after text installation it worked
fine. What you just said explains it. I really hope that the
installation team updates the driver because the text installer was very
painful:
- At around 15% copying files to disk it completely froze up (samba
package). After waiting a few minutes I rebooted.
- This time at around 45% it completely froze up (star office 8 fonts
package?) Again I rebooted.
- The third time it went all the way.
- I was unable to log into Gnome until I first went to a console as root
and configured:
a) /etc/nodename
b) /etc/inet/hosts
c) /etc/auto_home
d) created /export/home
e) created a new user and home directory
A lot of that was trial & error, and a lot of googling. Once I was in
things were working, but none of the developer edition stuff was
installed, even though I chose the "Development workstation" software
group during installation.
Later I rebooted and chose the "xVM Hipervisor" at grub just to check it
out. It booted my regular solaris, but network wasn't working. After
rebooting and choosing the regular Solaris menu item in GRUB I find my
network card is still not working. I did not have time to find out
why. I'll have to look at it tonight.
It was a bit disappointing to have to go through so much trouble on
Sun's own hardware. I bought this hardware so that I wouldn't have
trouble with Solaris. However it is free software and I do appreciate
the work everyone has put into it.
Thanks,
Ryan
