[ug-bosug] problem with graphic card

[Anil Gulecha]

On 3/13/07, Ganesh Hiregoudar <Ganesh.Hiregoudar at sun.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Paulo, Nicole and Ruzbeh are our campus ambassadors from Brazil.
>
> I think this is generic graphic card problem. Could you please help them.
>
> <<snip>>
> computer science department at our university and had the chance to
> install sun`s OS on some of the machines at the labs that the students
> use in the university. The gave us 30 machines to install one of the
> systems. We spoke to some of our teachers and decided that the
> OpenSolaris distro Nexenta was the best choice since the gnome,
> ubuntu-like interface was very user friendly and would eventually become
> an attractive to the students and a good first impression. Well, we
> started making up the matrix, which would be then ghosted on the the
> other 30 machines. But we faced some problems and we've trying to solve
> some of them, we have even sent some emails to mentors and teachers and
> professors, but there isn't much documentation on the system and
> possible troubleshoots. I'm sending this email to see if there's anyway
> you can help us. We had a problem with the video card driver. We weren't
> able to configure the video to be higher than 640x480, and all the pcs
> in the lab have the same video card. I believe it's a Intel i810 video
> card.


Hi,

This almost certainly is an xorg.conf issue. I seen this crop up in many
installs (Of Solaris Express, but should be the same on nexenta)

The workaround I try is to boot from BeleniX (on the starter kit), and
copying the /etc/x11/xorg.conf to the same location on the HD partition
containing opensolaris. This has worked all the times I've tried.

On another note, i'd recommend Solaris Express over Nexenta, as there is
more documentation/support for the later and it evolves actively. It also
uses Gnome, and with the ubuntu theme should look exactly like Ubuntu.

Regards
Anil
http://blogs.sun.com/anilg
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