W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > Just installed SXCE 59 on a nVidia/Athlon64 system. (I know there are quite > a few problems, but I wanted to check this build out mainly to see whether > the Chinese locale problems have been corrected). Keep getting "video out of > range" message--& thus no screen. Booted into failsafe mode, tried to do a > svccfg but got the error message that it "couldn't match the x11-server > pattern". It looks like the VESA driver is not setting the correct mode. When the grub menu appears, hit "e" to enter edit mode. Hit "e" again to edit the "kernel" line. Add to the end of the line:
" -m milestone=single-user" Hit return and "b" to boot into single user. Now run the command: svccfg -s x11-server setprop options/server=/usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg Reboot and the NVIDIA driver should be running and hopefully the video mode is set correctly. > > Is there anyway to enter a grub boot parameter to set a workable screen > resolution? Also, what's the new grub parameter to boot into a 32-bit kernel > (the old parameter kernel/unit doesn't work on Build 59). > You shouldn't need to boot into a 32 bit kernel as long as you get the Xorg server running in 32 bit mmode. FWIW, a 64 bit NVIDIA driver will ship starting with build 61. If you want to run in 64 bit mode until b51 ships (and you don't have a NV18GL board) you can download 1.0-9755 from NVIDIA's web site. BTW, the syntax for booting a 32 bit kernel for b59 is: kernel /platform/i86pc/kernel/unix module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive
