Hello,
Firstly I will outline my situation so you know what I can manage. I am
a blind user of opensolaris (blind to the extent I can only make out
approximate light level from the computer screen but little in any
detail, eg. I can see the difference of a black screen just before GDM
is started, the standard gnome background and when gnome has
applications open, I cannot read any of the text independently, I use
orca in that department).
In recent build of opensolaris (b130 onwards, this includes b133) I
noticed that X never seems to load, to me the screen appears black
(NOTE: I may not be detecting text error messages). Now I was aware of
problems with intel graphics and yes the computer I am talking about is
a laptop with intel graphics (not quite sure on the intel graphics card
model, the laptop is a dell inspiron 510m). Now mostly my looking at dev
builds has been on LiveCDs but I realised that if I installed I could
create boot environments and look at the logs from a working BE. So I
installed b129 and updated in a separate BE. Now when I mount the b133
BE and look at /var/log/xorg.log (capitalisation not guaranteed, I used
tab completion when opening the file so I know it exists) I only find
the xorg release information and nothing more. This compares to quite a
lot of output in the b129 log which has many messages explaining what
its doing.
Does this sound like it may be the intel graphics issue? Is there any
other way I can get the output to try and be more specific about what
the problem is (why I stated at the beginning my situation)?
Michael Whapples
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