Found out a few interesting things lately about my older installation attempts of Solaris for x86/intel... First off Solaris 8: I attempted installing solaris 8 on my main pc which didn't work out too well. It didn't seem to like the ethernet card at all. I found some drivers for it (Linksys LNE100TX) from a thirdparty site that worked, but the network was still hell to configure imo. Next came the graphics, which i couldn't get to work even after installing the porting kit from sun.

Solaris 8 on the laptop was another story. It installed fine but it still didn't like the graphics card nor the LCD I had. networkign was fine on DCHP but on a 192.168 setup there were problems to be had.

Recently I purchased Solaris 9 for intel and tried to install it on my main PC again thinking the new found hardware support would help and possibly get X running. Well this time it wouldn't even install, which was really odd. I can't remember the exact error but it was when I selected the install medium (CDROM) it would spit out an error of some sorts and something would segfault every time. I tried booting with a bootdisk that was reccomended from the sun solaris forums, but that was still a no go. I didn't experiment with it anymore after that.

Next I tried the installation of 9 on my laptop, the same one as before. It installed fine, network worked fine and to my suprise I got the X up as well. Specs on this machine were: Sager 2850 Laptop, 601MHz, 384MB Ram, 10GB drive, ATI Rage XL Pro LT I think...something on those lines, floppy, and cdrom. it ran quite nicely, and I even managed to install gnome...woo...

I havn't experimented much else with this config on my pc as I havn't really had the time to. Anyone else have any comments on this or had somewhat similar problems?

Hi,

I also had similar problems. The h/w that i have at home is a AMD Athlon 2000+XP processor, on an ASUS board A7N266-VM with Nvidia chipset. Solaris 8 installed fine... but GUI wont work...... finally downloaded porting kit from sun, and X worked. The issue is that X is working with the vesa drivers, not with the NVIDIA ones. This is funny. The driver name is "nvidia rivaTNT/geForce2" or something like it.

Although things are working fine..... but i still would like the X to run using the nvidia drivers not vesa....

-Subhasis

Hmm, after reading these posts I guess X is hard to setup and have it running. I've installed Solaris 8 on my pc and it works just although I had to install a driver for my realtek NIC. Didn't setup X as my solaris box was used as a server than a desktop. Perhaps I should try messing around with X...I'll let you know if I come across the same problems as you guys..

-twantrd

I think many of the graphic issues are disappearing with Solaris 10, due to the inclusion of the Xorg server.