[OpenIndiana-discuss] How is IvyBridge support on recent IO?

[Stephan Althaus]

Hello Chris!

Maybe you could check if the system is accepting connections via ssh..

When i remember correctly, there is still no console available in UEFI 
boot mode. .(?)

Regards,
Stephan


On 01/11/21 11:24, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
> Am 11.01.21 um 09:35 schrieb Chris:
>> Hello,
>> I recently attempted to an install of OI 20201031 on an
>> Intel i5 IvyBridge. Everything worked up until the console
>> switched to graphics/Xorg. Where the screen simply turned
>> black and disk activity stopped shoerly there after.
>> Tapping anything on the keyboard did not seem to have any
>> affect. That is; no disk activity, nor change on the
>> acreen as a result. Is IvyBridge still
>> supported/(correctly)detected?
>>
>> Thank you for all your time, and consideration.
>>
>> --Chris
>>
> Hi,
>
> from my point of view it shouldn't fail like this, albeit I haven't
> checked any Ivy Brigde generation cpu yet. I only successfully used
> Intel graphics on my e3-1245v3 (Haswell) and e3-1275v5 (Skylake,
> not really sure whether I really tested it (my memory my fail me) as I
> am using NVIDIA P6x0 cards on these machines).
> My general recommendation is to use the text install media because this
> is the best supported version (live media is still working but lacking
> some things already as nobody cares for them).
> After a successful installation from text media you can run "pkg install
> mate_install && pkg uninstall mate_install" which brings you X11 and
> Mate desktop.
> Of course you'll need to add more apps to get a better desktop 
> experience.
> When your machine hangs on starting X11 you should try to connect via
> ssh and look for errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/adm/messages.
>
> Regards
> Andreas
>
>
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