[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

[Alex Lam S.L.]

After sipping through the instructures for the virtual console, I
think I'll stay away from it for now, as I can use SSH to do pretty
much the same investigations.


Alex.


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Jake <jak3kaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 27, 2011, at 7:39 AM, "Alex Lam S.L." <alexlamsl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> After performing "sudo pkg image-update", which only seems to have
>> downloaded the nvidia packages (because that's the only thing being
>> different?), I restarted the server which boots into "openindiana-1".
>>
>> And then I couldn't type into the login form at all.
>>
>> So I powered off the server and power it on again - I can log in, but
>> then the desktop locks up straight away.
>>
>> Power cycled again, and it seems to be working at the moment (I'm
>> typing this email on it). I googled and use the following command to
>> check the version of nvidia driver:
>>
>> $ modinfo | grep -i nvidia
>> 87 fffffffff7d14000 a44008  62   1  nvidia (nvidia %I% Jun  8 2011 17:21:57)
>>
>>
>> Does that look right?
>>
>>
>> Alex.
>>
>>
> Yes that's the right driver.
>
>
> Do you have virtual consoles setup?  If you did, you could do ctrl-alt-F2 and check some stuff.
>
> Jake
>>
>
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