[indiana-discuss] b107 Graphical Login issue

James Legg mail at jameslegg.co.uk
Wed Feb 25 02:10:28 PST 2009


I had an issue with my /etc/X11/xorg.conf because I had made some 
changes to suit Nvidia TwinView which broke gdm for me, moving it 
sideways allowed gdm to launch correctly. But the systems you describe 
where the same.

-James

Amit k. Saha wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Greg Palmer
> <GregoryLPalmer at netscape.net> wrote:
>   
>> Amit k. Saha wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On booting the b107, I was automatically moved into console login, and
>>> after  that, I did a 'svcadm clear nwam' (according to the work around
>>> suggested) and then did a 'startx', where errors were thrown.
>>> Apparently, it could be a problem with my NVidia (Quadro ) card.
>>>
>>> 'gdm' started. But, I do not get the graphical environment
>>>       
>> Hello Amit,
>>
>>  I've had to do the svcadm clear nwam trick on my Ultra 20. The boot
>> automatically resumed though. The first time it did, I wasn't expecting it
>> and had enabled gdm which resulted in two sessions which worked poorly. I
>> had to restart the machine to regain control. When I just did the clear and
>> let OpenSolaris do the rest it worked fine. It did take a while to start X
>> though. I have a Nvidia Quadro FX 3450 in this machine and it works fine
>> with 107.
>>     
>
> Thanks Greg, I did wait a bit longer this time and things worked
> perfect. I got the Live desktop too :-) Yay!
>
> Best,
> Amit
>   
>> Regards,
>>  Greg
>>
>>     
>
>
>
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