Flashing grey display

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Hello I'm a solaris 10 newbie. I have installed it but I think I messed up the graphics card/display settings. It boots but into a flashing grey screen. How can I get in an alter the display parameters? I have a 30" Dell monitor 2560X1600 60Khz and an Nvidia 8800GTX. The motherboard is an ASUS Striker extreme ( Nvidia 680i chipset ) Does Solaris work on very new hardware. Thanks in advance and apologies for my lameness

 

[Annihilannic]

Nice kit you have there. Is it on a network... i.e. can you ssh in to it? Ctrl-Alt-Backspace kills the X server... but it seems to start again before you can do anything...

Annihilannic.

 

[Annihilannic]

I know, reboot, interrupt GRUB, edit the 'kernel' line and add '-s' on the end to boot to single-user mode, and then log in and edit xorg.conf (or whatever) to your heart's delight.

Annihilannic.

 

[RADCOM]

Thanks Annihilannic cost me an arm and a leg plus my sons university tuition fees lol. It's water cooled with 5 disks plus 5 disk stripe on LSi Scsi No xorgconf that I could find.I think I'm going to have to re-install. Got this from my guru:-
on *nix systems, the setup is held in the file
>> /etc/X11/*xorg.conf *so i
>> guess, if you hold down either ALT-CTRL F1 or ALT F1
>> down you should get
>> a terminal console.. if that doesn't work try CTRL
>> ALT F2 or F3 or F4
>> CTRL ALT F7 should be your Graphical display
>>
>> If you get your console prompt, login and do
>>
>> cd /etc/X11
>> ls
>> and see if there is an xorg.conf
>>
>> if ther is you can view it using
>>
>> more xorg.conf
>>
>> to edit it, i prefer nano, but if its not working
>> use vi
>>
>> if you can get a copy of this file to me, i can edit
>> it for you...
>>
>> alternativly, there should be a file which you can
>> run as super user
>>
>> 1. As su, run /usr/X11/bin/xorgconfig. Answer the
>> questions as appropriate
>> and the program will create an xorg.conf in
>> /etc/X11.
>> 2. Run kdmconfig and change from the xsun server
>>
>>
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>> to xorg server.
>> 3. Download the NVidia driver for Solaris from their
>> website
>> 4. Read the README and run the file as per
>> instructions
>> 5. Run /usr/X11/bin/scanpci and check the pci id of
>> your NVidia card.
>> 6. run the command
>> update_drv -a -i '"pcixxxx,xxx"' nvidia
>> where the xxxs are filled by the values you got from
>> scanpci command.
>> Don't forget the quotes ' and ". One thing to note
>> here,scanpci gave me
>> a PCI ID for my GeForce 5200 as 0x10de 0x0322.
>> Entering it as
>> '"pci10de,0322"' failed. I had to go into
>> /etc/driver_aliases and drop
>> the 0 in 0322. Finicky eh?
>> 7.Edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file anc change the
>> entry that reads "nv"
>> to "nvidia"
>> 8. Finally as root run the following command
>> # reboot -- -r
>>
>> If this doesn't work, i can't remember if Solaris
>> uses dpkg/Apt but if
>> it does run
>>
>> sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
>>
>> If -phigh doesn't give you one that works then use
>> -plow. You'll just
>> need to enter more info.

 

[Annihilannic]

It sounds like he's mixing in some Linux stuff with Solaris there, but I could be mistaken.

on *nix systems, the setup is held in the file
>> /etc/X11/*xorg.conf *so i
>> guess, if you hold down either ALT-CTRL F1 or ALT F1
>> down you should get
>> a terminal console.. if that doesn't work try CTRL
>> ALT F2 or F3 or F4
>> CTRL ALT F7 should be your Graphical display

I tried this myself but Solaris x86 doesn't appear to have virtual consoles the same way Linux does.

Annihilannic.