Praveen Kunjapur <Praveen.Kunjapur@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 27, 9:00?pm, Cydrome Leader <prese...@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:
>
>> It's probably switching into CDE and your monitor cannot handle the
>> settings it's using.
>>
>> does it flash a login prompt just before "sleeping"?
>
> yes.


Ok, that's the problem then. I'm not at a sun machine, so this is from
memory.

you can try to login really fast, then wait a minute before it drops back
to a shell in text mode. This may not work.

OR

boot single user mode. In the grub boot menu, hit e or something like that
then edit the line with kernel config stuff

add a

-s

after the "boot".

after you get a prompt, you'll want to disable the dtlogin screen

run

/usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -d

or

svcadm disable cde-login

then reboot. init 6 is fine.

Something has to be wrong with your graphics settings that confuse your
monitor and make it shut off.