I cannot get solaris-desktop to work on my laptop. I'm using Solaris 11.4 x86
 

I have an HP Elitebook 840 laptop.

I installed solaris-desktop.

I entered:

pkg info -r solaris-desktop

pkg install solaris-desktop

Then I rebooted.

Solaris didn't boot with graphics. It stayed in text mode or command line.

I tried startx and gdm as a user and root.

The errors I get are gdm saying not owner. Xorg gives me unable to connect. No screens found.

I'm working from memory. I tried a fresh install twice. There was no way to save logs. I had to install another operating system to get to you.

Xorg was unable to connect to the screen. It might be a permissions thing. I also think it might be a driver issue.

Regardless I have no idea how to fix this.

Please help.

Bruce

Welcome to LQ, bdeg.

I'm no Solaris man, but someone had better try to help you.

Xorg says 'no screens found'. That's a video problem. It usually writes a log, Xorg.0.log, every time you run it. Previous files are renamed or deleted. So search for it. If you have some version of locate
updatedb (which needs root) makes or updates a database
locate Xorg.0.log should find the file.

You can read it with 'cat /path/to/Xorg.0.log |grep EE' which gives you the errors - the juicy bits.

Otherwise, If you can, pastebin it and send the link. If you can make sense of it, great. Keep us informed.

My error screens
 

https://bdeg1007.github.io/student/11.jpg
https://bdeg1007.github.io/student/12.jpg
https://bdeg1007.github.io/student/13.jpg
https://bdeg1007.github.io/student/14.jpg

Sorry I am the original poster getting back to you late. Life intruded.

Welcome back to LQ!

6 months down the line and still no progress?

Follow the same suggestion provided above and paste the output using the code tags please.

Or alternatively send another pic (Not ideal but if its your only means so be it)

Back again. Finally got a screenshot.
 

Hello again,

Can anyone help me? I am posting two screenshots of the aforementioned command I ran.

https://bdeg1007.github.io/student/98.jpg
https://bdeg1007.github.io/student/99.jpg

Are you able to post the output of the following ...

I see you have provided the model of your laptop but its best to be sure what hardware you are running.

snapci results
 

https://bdeg1007.github.io/student/T.jpg
https://bdeg1007.github.io/student/O.jpg

It definitional seems like its related to video issues as @business_kid previously mentioned. From what I have possibly established is that your system is loading the Nvidia driver where as according to the information you provided it appears your system uses the Intel HD5500 graphics, if I am not mistaken. I am not too familiar with Solaris and from what I gathered it appears there is not much promising documentation.

You can possibly use the following links as a guideline:
https://www.unix.com/solaris/194971-...working-2.html
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/n...rting-x.50004/

Its worth a shot

Have you managed to come right with this issue?

I had a similar issue with FreeBSD which also uses the pkg manager. You could try installing the drm-kmod package and setting the driver to intel

Then set the driver in /etc/rc.conf


Worth a shot

No solution
 

I tried to get the desktop to work. I learned some things but I couldn't solve the original problem.

Thanks for all who tried to help. It is quite a bit different than linux and there isn't much documentation.

I'll give it a go in a couple of weeks again to see if I can get it straight. :study:

Waiting in anticipation for the good news