I hope that this is the appropriate forum to ask this. Please let me know if not.
I've just installed OpenSolaris on an HP Proliant ML110 G5 which uses an on-board Matrox MGA G200e chip. Booting from the build 93 CD resulted in a text console log-in prompt, as GDM failed to start. Following the steps at http://blogs.sun.com/sch/entry/indiana_vesa_if_you_need allowed me to start the Xorg server and install the OS using the GUI installer. Running the Device Driver Utility reported that it was using the "vga-text" driver for the Matrox chip, which worked well, giving me a decent resolution (it looked like 1280x1024). When I booted the newly installed image, X (GDM) again failed to start. I followed the procedure in the blog again, generating an xorg.conf.new file, which I copied to /etc/X11/. When I run the command below, as per the blog, X starts and all is well (although there is no way to log out and killing the X server leaves me with a blank screen and seemingly no way back to the text console). /usr/X11/bin/xinit /usr/bin/dbus-launch gnome-session -- /usr/X11/bin/Xorg -config xorg.conf.new My understanding is that this command starts the X server directly in a session, bypassing GDM, so perhaps this points to a problem with GDM. However, on boot the X server still fails to start automatically, logging the following in the messages file: Sep 2 19:25:30 repo gdm-binary[593]: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] WARNING: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Sep 2 19:25:33 repo gdm-binary[619]: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] WARNING: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Sep 2 19:25:33 repo gdm-binary[566]: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] WARNING: Failed to start X server several times in a short time period; disabling display :0 The GDM service log just shows it starting and exiting: [ Sep 2 19:25:08 Enabled. ] [ Sep 2 19:25:25 Executing start method ("/usr/sbin/gdm"). ] [ Sep 2 19:25:25 Method "start" exited with status 0. ] I've attached the xorg.conf.new file generated by "Xorg -configure", which works when starting the session directly, as above. Does anyone know what the problem might be that is preventing X/GDM from starting on boot? As it is possible for X to use the on-board chip, I'd like to use it rather than installing another card (which would have to be PCI, due to the system's lack of a PCIE 16x slot). I'm not looking for anything fancy, e.g. Compiz, as it will just be a little home server, but would like to be able to use admin tools, such as vpanels, as they arrive. Thanks, Craig -- This message posted from opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: xorg.conf.new Type: application/octet-stream Size: 4782 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/attachments/20080902/2c971bc7/attachment.obj>
