[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 2017/10 lightdm under VBox 5.1.28

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 2017/10 lightdm under VBox...:

> On 11/ 2/17 09:10 AM, John D Groenveld wrote:
>> In message <87d150elb7.fsf at local.lan>, Harry Putnam writes:
>>> Sorry about dumbo question, but can you mention briefly how this
>>> switching is done?
>> 
>> Change vboxvideo to vesa in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

For anyone that's following John's excellent advice, keep in mind that
you probably need to make that substitution in multiple places in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.

> Or if you don't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf yet:
>  cp /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.vesa /etc/X11/xorg.conf

The OI guest that I updated from 2017.04 to 2017.10 does not have any
example files in /usr/lib/X11.  Perhaps I neglected to install some
package?

Tim
-- 
Tim Mooney                                             Tim.Mooney at ndsu.edu
Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure                  701-231-1076 (Voice)
Room 242-J6, Quentin Burdick Building                  701-231-8541 (Fax)
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164