Hello,

I recently installed Solaris 10 on my pc, install went fine, but I am having trouble setting the monitor refresh rate. It's always stuck at a god awful 60 hz, there's no way to change it it seems, and I have tried to remedy the problem using several methods. First I went into the control panel to change the refresh rate, but the option says "0 hz" and I can't change it. Next, I used kdmconfig to set the video device, monitor size, etc., but it didn't work. (I modified xSun with kdmconfig) The resolution changed to my specifications, but the refresh rate didn't. After that, I went back into the console and used the /usr/X11/bin/xorgconfig setup method, but again, the refresh rate didn't change. How can I change the refresh rate from this unbearable 60 hz setting?

man fbconfig

fbconfig is SPARC specific.

Anymore ideas?

Isn't the x86 version "xdmconfig" or "kdmconfig" or something like that? Not real sure, I'm mostly SPARC platform where it's fbconfig/m64config depending on model.

Perhaps if you give more clues.
What graphic card ? driver ?

Of course. My graphics card is a ATI Radeon X1600 Pro, drivers are ver 7.5 (for windows). I'll list the rest of the specs too:

Amd Athlon 64 3200+
Asus A8N5X mobo with nforce4 chipset
20 GB IDE HD
160 GB SATA HD (solaris is on this one)
1024 MB RAM
21 in crt monitor
Sony DVD Drive
plextor external dvd burner

Ive heard that ATI graphic card and Solaris is no good combination. Nvidia would be prefered. Maybe there is some information here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221174

Well there's nothing wrong with the graphics on Solaris, and the installer had no trouble detecting the graphics card as an ATI board with 256 MB memory, it's just that I'm having trouble finding a way to set the refresh rate above 60 hz.

ATI is well known not to share its H/W specifications, even under NDA.
Given the fact ATI neither release a proprietary driver for Solaris, you are using an open source driver based on some kind of reverse engineering. It's no surprise if some feature like refresh rate doesn't work as you like.

We just can hope things change now that AMD has bought ATI.

I hope so too. As much as I like AMD (their processors up through the 90's through the present day were much better offerings than Intel in my opinion, though Core 2 looks real nice) I hope they cut the crap and let ATI open up their drivers like NVIDIA. I guess this bird's just not going to fly. Thank you all for your time, effort, and patience.

Aren't a lot of the built-in Sun hardware graphics made by ATI? I'd think the support would be pretty good due to that.

AFAIK, all Sun Workstations graphics cards for the x86 architecture are based on Nvidia Quadro chipsets.

There are indeed ATI cards (XVR series) but they are only supported on the UltraSPARC architecture.