> Thanks,  I don't think the Vesa driver will work
> because I think that is what the Solaris Express
> versions that I tried used. I think I could install
> the most recent Solaris Express but then I would need
> to get a drivers that used my video and network chip.
> During the install I had a split screen one above
> the other and it was difficult to read.  But I will
> try the procedure you suggest on Opensolaris.  The
> Opensolaris 2008.05 that I was running loads the
> Nvidia driver right away (I get the Nvidia logo when
> the live CD starts).  I will try what the posts
> suggests, but it is starting to look like Solaris
>  does not like my Biostar MB.
> hanks, wor

Not sure if you've received the reply to your message from rugrat on 
xwin-discuss so here is a link to that thread:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=90463&tstart=0

If the problem is a lack of a vendor-specific device ID then you can find this 
out yourself by running scanpci. You are looking for your vendor ID and device 
ID pair, e.g.:

vendor 0x15ad device 0x0405

Youcan then search for this in the /etc/driver_aliases file on OpenSolaris 
2008.11 using, e.g.:

grep \"pci15ad,405\" /etc/driver_aliases

If this fails to find your device ID, then you can add it yourself using 
add_drv, reloading the nvidia driver then starting GDM, but the device should 
have specified one of the "official" nVidia device IDs in its list of 
compatible devices. The output of prtconf -v will show you if it has any, 
although you may want to view that in a test editor as it is quite large and 
difficult to read.

Cheers

Andrew.
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