I've tried to install this on my OpenSolaris 2008.11 machine, but experienced some issues. I followed the instructions given below for an OpenSolaris machine to do the install.
1) When first rebooting, the gdm greeter did not appear. I had to ssh in to the machine and restart gdm in order for the greeter to properly show up. 2) When trying to log in through gdm, there were some odd input issues. When the greeter first appeared, keyboard focus would be locked on the Options button, and neither tab nor mouse clicks would move the focus to the Username entry box. After clicking OK and having that login rejected, I could then enter my username and password. 3) After logging in through the greeter, the Gnome session would not start. 4) After clicking the Options button, selecting Failsafe Gnome and clicking OK to dismiss that dialog, I could not get keyboard focus back on the Username field, and the OK/Start Again buttons were each disabled since there was no input in Username. 5) I finally gave up on gdm, disabled it and ran X from an ssh connection to the box. X appeared to start fine, so I started gnome-session on that display. Gnome-session appeared to run fine, but there was no hardware excelleration (which I believe is to be expected for my Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP card. 6) While running the manual X session, I was still experiencing odd keyboard issues. I would only intermittently be able to type into a gnome-terminal, though clicking and dragging with the mouse continued to function. 7) I received the following error in my Xorg.0.log file: (EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/X11/lib/X11/xkb/rules/base That file indeed does not exist, but I'm not sure how it's being configured, or if I should just be linking one of the rules files that do exist to that path. I hope this information is helpful. I'm not sure what else to include, but feel free to ask questions. On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > I've made updated test binary packages available for our upcoming integration > of Xorg 1.5 / Mesa 7.2 and all the associated driver updates for Nevada at: > > Internal/NFS: > /net/xserver.sfbay/export/space/alanc/Xorg-1.5/build-12-23-08/ > > External/http: > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/x/downloads/Xorg-1.5/build-12-23-08/ > > This will probably be the final test build made available before we integrate, > as we are targeting nv_107 in January. I've gotten very little feedback on > these - even if you had no problems, I'd appreciate a note if you've tried > them > at all. (I've especially noticed not a peep from those who are always on > e-mail or IRC with complaints about how they want all the latest versions or > how long our team is taking to port these. I'm wondering if all the work > put into making the project gate & builds publicly available is worth it for > only 2 or 3 testers.) > > Please note that like most of Sun's US employees, the Sun X team is all out > until January 5 for Sun's Winter holidays, so won't be responding too quickly > if you do report problems. > > Changes since the previous build: > - Resynced with master X gate as of nv_106, including: > 6787752 Upgrade libXfont to 1.3.4 > 6786726 mkfontscale missing bzip2 support (upgrade to 1.0.6) > 6785726 libpciaccess needs to use the correct BAR index on solaris > > - Updates to new driver releases from X.Org: > xf86-input-mutouch 1.2.0 -> 1.2.1 > xf86-input-vmmouse 12.6.2 -> 12.6.3 > xf86-video-apm 1.2.0 -> 1.2.1 > xf86-video-ark 0.7.0 -> 0.7.1 > xf86-video-ast 0.81.0 -> 0.87.0 > xf86-video-chips 1.2.0 -> 1.2.1 > xf86-video-glint 1.2.1 -> 1.2.2 > xf86-video-neomagic 1.2.1 -> 1.2.2 > xf86-video-radeonhd 1.2.3 -> 1.2.4 > xf86-video-s3 0.6.0 -> 0.6.1 > xf86-video-s3virge 1.10.1 -> 1.10.2 > xf86-video-sis 0.10.0 -> 0.10.1 > xf86-video-tdfx 1.4.0 -> 1.4.1 > xf86-video-trident 1.3.0 -> 1.3.1 > xf86-video-tseng 1.2.0 -> 1.2.1 > xf86-video-vesa 2.0.0 -> 2.1.0 > > - Disable PCI bus probe on SPARC Xorg startup to workaround extremely > long (multi-minute) pciaccess bus probe times. > > > Installation: > > 1) If you grabbed a tarball, download and untar it & cd into the resulting > directory. If you are accessing the unpacked files directly over NFS, > cd into the appropriate directory. > > 2) If on Nevada/SXCE: > run ./upgrade-Xorg as root > > If on Indiana/OpenSolaris 2008.11: > pfexec beadm create xorg-1.5 > pfexec beadm mount xorg-1.5 /mnt > pfexec ./upgrade-Xorg -R /mnt > pfexec beadm umount xorg-1.5 > pfexec beadm activate xorg-1.5 > pfexec reboot > > This will create a new boot environment/ZFS clone/grub entry, so > you can easily get back to the pre-existing environment. Note > that the upgrade-Xorg script does not currently uninstall the > original Xorg IPS packages, so IPS & SVR4 will both think they > own the packages, and the new BE will likely be un-upgradable and > you'll have to boot back to your previous BE to do any further IPS > upgrades. > > If anyone who wants to make it easier to test on 2008.* wants to > improve it, please help! (There's also a unfinished -u option > to uninstall these and restore the original packages which also > needs help.) Making zfs clones/snapshots on Nevada systems with > ZFS roots would also be good. > > > IMPORTANT NOTES - *READ BEFORE INSTALLING*: > > - Besides the Xorg packages from the X gate, these also include updated > versions of SUNWhwdata, SUNWhal & SUNWhalr from the ON gate, which provide > updated pci.ids files (integrated to ON for nv_103), 64-bit libhal > (integrated to ON for nv_104), and hald/config updates (not yet in ON) > needed for Xorg 1.5's use of HAL to discover input devices. If you bfu > or otherwise upgrade your ON bits, and stomp on these, expect Xorg to fail. > > - Xorg on SPARC will not work with any driver except the included wsfb (which > only works on m64 graphics in 8-bit mode) unless you get updated matching > driver packages from the SPARC graphics team, since this release breaks > API/ABI. OpenGL on SPARC will also not work unless you get updated > matching Xorg OpenGL modules from the SPARC graphics team due to the ABI > break. You should still be able to test on SPARC the other Xservers > (Xephyr, Xvnc, Xvfb), and associated programs (like scanpci, now added > on SPARC). > > - If you do not have an xorg.conf or your xorg.conf specifies no > input devices, Xorg now asks HAL for input devices. Configuration of > things like keyboard layout for these is now done in > /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi > - for more info on these, see these pages, but remember evdev is Linux > only, we use "kbd" & "mouse" drivers on Solaris: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input#Input%20Configuration%20with%20HAL > http://who-t.blogspot.com/2008/07/input-configuration-in-nutshell.html > > - These do not support virtual consoles - you must choose between these test > binaries and the Xorg 1.3+virtual consoles test binaries - sorry. > > - Trusted Extensions support is currently broken, and I am working with > the TX team to fix their code to work Xorg 1.5. > > - Support for the LG3D extension used by Project Looking Glass is disabled. > The upstream code no longer seems to be updated to build against new Xorg > releases, so we're planning on dropping this as unmaintained. > > For the adventurous/helpful, the sources to the project gate used to generate > these binaries can be found at: > ssh://anon at hg.opensolaris.org/hg/fox/fox-7-4-merge > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/fox/fox-7-4-merge/ > > The 2008-12-23 build corresponds to the gate as of > changeset e06ca9ef67c0fe27cb5ecaf7cdade53c9e84c284 > which includes resyncing with the Nevada X consolidation gate > as of our nv_106 build. > > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > > > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org >
