On Jun 20, 2006, at 7:06 PM, zzassgl at buffy.sighup.org.uk wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:16:10AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Solaris has drivers for all public nvidia cards - though for the >> very newest you may need to download the newest ones from nvidia.com. > > The nv driver has the merit of working on all(?) platforms. Sadly, > I and a > few others have found that the latest nvidia drivers from > nvidia.com cause a > hard hang at boot time on particular computers (for me it's Sol10 on a > Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100.) There seems to be a problem caused by > a bus > scan that halts when some USB hardware is found. > > If anybody has a fix please let me know - I've tried everything > that I've > found via a google search without success.
Have you tried to remove all USB units (battery chargers excluded) from your laptop and then power on the machine. Wait until the login screen has loaded and is waiting for your name and password. Now it's safe to plug in the mouse for correct operation. Well, this works for ASUS A6Km (and american z9000 series) What USB chip does the Toshiba uses ??? It might be the same as my ASUS laptop. Kaiser Jasse -- Authorized Stealth Oracle The axioms of wisdom: 1. You can't outstubborn a cat 2. You can't conquer the universe without the knowledge of FORTRAN 3. In the Unix realm, 10% of work fixes 90% of the problems
