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.
We'll probably need to know exactly what version of Solaris (Solaris 10 1/06, Solaris 10 11/06, OpenSolaris build#, ...) you are attempting to install. There have been a lot of changes and it seems you are using an older version with both the Sun X server and the Xorg server. Use as new a version as you can since laptop support has been getting better but older versions can sometime be made to work. > > 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. This sounds like the test during installation was using the Sun X server and following installation, it is attempting to use the Xorg server. You'll want to try to get it working with the Xorg server but if necessary, it can be configured to use the Sun X server. > 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. At the grub menu (are you using a grub based version of Solaris?), enter an 'e' to edit the Solaris entry. Select the kernel line and enter an 'e' to edit it. Append a '-s' to indicate it should boot into single user mode (no X). Now boot. From single user mode you, you may need to run /usr/sbin/kdmconfig to determine which X server is configure and to switch between the two. If you are using Xorg, look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for clues about the problem. > > SSH connection has not been worked because the NIC has not configured.... That is a separate problem. You'll probably have to post the output from /usr/X11/bin/scanpci to get help with that. > > 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. You probably don't want to modify that with Solaris. Modifying what services are started has changed a lot with the different versions of Solaris (particularly between 9 and 10 but also with later versions of 10 and OpenSolaris). > 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. The NVidia drivers are included in recent builds of OpenSolaris and they can be easily added to Solaris 10 once you boot into single-user mode. I think you have to use the Xorg server with the NVidia drivers. > > I wonder why XWindows "configuration test" says OK but XWindows does not run > properly. This case shows that the configuration tools is not accurate. Probably because the test was run with the Sun X server but after installation the system is trying to use the Xorg server. One version of Solaris 10 did that.
