New Solaris on an MBP???

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peterwor

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Has anyone gotten either the newest Solaris (6 06) or at least 10 to run on a MacBook Pro?
I get it installed but the mousr driver never seems to work. I'm using a Apple mighty mouse and no driver in Solaris I try works.
Has anyone gotten this to run with a mighty moues or even the built in trackpad mouse?

TIA,
Peter
 
I did. 6_06 works fine for me. Both 1_06 and 6_06 do have strange way to lockup when left idle for a while. Not sure if it is Solaris problem or Parallels.
Parallels guys you have any input on this idle/lock issue.

Beside this lockup when idle for 20 min or so everything else works fine. I also have Sun C++ tools installed on it as well.
 
Hi Peter,

I had the same problem on my 20" imac. I couldn't get the mouse working at all during installation. So instead I performed a text based installation (I tihnk it was option 4 - text based console installation), and once that was complete, setup networking and ftp'ed my old xorg.conf file. After logging in/out it now works fine.

I've not had this problem with Solaris 10 01/06 or any of the numerous Nevada builds I've tried, but the workaround above should work !

I'm still trying to find an xorg file that works at 1440x900 or 1680x1050, the last one I tried, it rebooted my imac !

Regards

Richard
 
Richard,
Thanks for the tip, unfortunately I don't have an old conf file to xfer over. I've tried the text setup and unfortunately I am not getting anywhere. I have no way to navigate the steup program to reconfigure.
Looks like I'm SOL! Too bad I guess...

Thanks,
Peter
 
I installed S10 update 2 (or, Solaris 10 6/06) today in Parallels. I got this xorg.conf from a coworker - it works for me. Comment lines stripped.

Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
Load "bitstream"
Load "type1"
Load "IA"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/sun/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/F3bitmaps/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2" # PS/2 Mouse
Option "Device" "/dev/kdmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "My Monitor"
HorizSync 31.5 - 64.3
VertRefresh 50-100
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Standard VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
Driver "vga"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "* Generic VESA compatible"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "* Generic VESA compatible"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultDepth 1

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
 
thank you for posting your xorg.conf. I got that much working before. Did you managed to run @ 1680x1050? I do not see it in your config file?
 
Display 1650 x 1050 on MBP-17 Using xorg

Check out other forum threads:
1. "Solaris on MacBookPro"
http://forums.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=249&highlight=solaris

2. "1600x1050 Fullscreen Resolution?"
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=883&highlight=solaris

3. "1680x1050 in beta5 + xorg"
http://forums.parallels.com/thread1142.html

Based on the information from these threads, I was able to config my MBP-17 to display at 1650x1050. Worked on both Solaris 10 1/06 and 1/06.

**Importantly, during the installation, you must answer YES when prompted to look at the card database and the choose "0 --> Generic Vesa compatible option" - see first thread for more info.
 
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