Re: [osol-help] Can't install - X does not start

2009-08-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Anonymous wrote: I believe that it said Screen not found. This also happened when I was using freebsd. I fixed that by running Xorg -configure, copying the config, then running startx. On opensolaris, however, if I try to run Xorg -configure, I must be logged in as root. Somehow, when I lo

Re: [osol-help] Can't install - X does not start

2009-08-23 Thread Anonymous
I believe that it said Screen not found. This also happened when I was using freebsd. I fixed that by running Xorg -configure, copying the config, then running startx. On opensolaris, however, if I try to run Xorg -configure, I must be logged in as root. Somehow, when I log in as root, I can

Re: [osol-help] Can't install - X does not start

2009-08-23 Thread brad
somewhere I've read that if it boots into console mode it maybe that the graphics card is not supported try running the following see how it checks out. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.jsp hth -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-help] Can't install - X does not start

2009-08-23 Thread Einar Lielmanis
> ..The install cd boots into a console, and never starts the > window manager. I have tried logging in as "jack", but typing in > "startx" or "gdm" gives no results. .. Hmm, docs say that 3870 (and 3870 x 2) are/should be supported out of the box. I guess there should be something interesting (p

[osol-help] Can't install - X does not start

2009-08-23 Thread Anonymous
I'm trying to install opensolaris on my computer, with pretty poor results. The install cd boots into a console, and never starts the window manager. I have tried logging in as "jack", but typing in "startx" or "gdm" gives no results. I'd really like to give opensolaris a try on my PC, so doe