[OpenIndiana-New-developers] Frozen Blank Screen

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Greg Suarez <gpsuarez2512 at gmail.com> [2011-03-11 03:31]:
> I'm new to OpenIndiana and SunOS, since not having used SunOS since 2001,
> and I'm trying out OpenIndiana to get back into the Solaris world.
> I installed OpenIndiana oi_148a and what I'm experiencing is that when when
> the screen blanks out (screensaver) I can can't get the desktop back unless
> I restart gdm.

oi_148a was an experimental respin which has unfortunately been
placed in the same public directory as the regular oi_148
development release. Could you use the oi_148 live media from
http://openindiana.org/download/ and see if this bug is present
there as well? If not, you're hitting a known bug
(http://www.illumos.org/issues/759).

> Also a newb question... how do I drop down to the terminal from the login
> screen?

If you mean the text console, you can use "svcadm disable gdm" to
disable the graphical login manager.

> P.S. if this is not the right list to be mailing these newb questions please
> direct me to the correct place.  thanks

Support questions are generally better asked on
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org where the broader community
hangs out. Bugs should be reported at
http://bugs.openindiana.org/ (please use the search function to
ensure that it is not an already known bug).
This list is primarily aimed at people interested in becoming
contributors to the project.
-- 
Guido Berhoerster