[desktop-discuss] Xorg problems on Dell p.c.

[Stuart Kreitman]

Justin Conover wrote:

>A friend of mine at work wants to get into solaris, so I handed him my bld_46 DVD and it installed just fine, except when X comes up, the monitor goes blank and shuts off.
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>>From booting into windoes that is there, the video chipset is.
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>Intel 829459
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I don't recognize that number. from Solaris try /usr/X11/bin/scanpci

>NEC 700+ monitor
>1280x1024
>Hor 31-70
>Vert 55-120
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>Solaris used to give you the ability to login before JDS fires up, but that doesn't seem to work anymore, I type in root and passwd and it still goes to X (and blows up)
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>Ctrl + Alt + Backspace doesn't bring the monitor back to life either.
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please send or post /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Also, try kdmconfig, choose Xsun, and choose different Intel drivers.

>I was going to do a manual config and choose vesa or something for the driver but I'm stuck on how I would do that.  Booting in to failsafe I mount it to the default /a then xorgconfig has no idea were a lot of libs /usr and other stuff it needs to work.  Can you mount in failsafe as the dir / ?  Virtual Console would be great at this point!
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>Any suggestions?
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>Alan Coopersmith around :)
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I'm Not Alan. How's that for a nickname?


Stuart