[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI new user questions - 2

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 11.12.20 um 03:43 schrieb Gary Mills:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:56:42PM +0000, Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>
>> Gary Mills,How far the boot process goes? Well, I booted into BIOS
>> and it boots until X11, which will not start.
> At that point, it is actually running a version of OI, coming from the
> USB image.
>
>> Here is the Xorg.0.log
>> file. I tried another keyboard, and also I tried it in USB2 and USB3
>> ports. But still it doesnt work to boot X11. It seems to be an error
>> with the keyboard? I dont get it, I have a Sun keyboard. And I tried
>> another cheap keyboard.
> I have two systems with Sun keyboards running OI.  They are both USB
> keyboards.  Something is wrong with your keyboard, though.  The log
> file below indicates that.  Do you have a BIOS setting that says
> something about a legacy keyboard?  You may have to change that.
>
>> I have a Geforce GTX 1070 Ti gpu, so I instead used VESA driver.
>> And ACPI.
> According to the log file below, it is an NVIDIA card.  That should be
> supported.  Normally you are better off not to specify the VESA
> driver, but let Xorg figure it out.
>
The graphics card is probably too new for our old NVIDIA driver.
You should download a recent driver from here:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/solaris-display-archive/
and simply run the downloaded file as root. It should install all
necessary files then.

Andreas