"Logan Shaw" <lshaw-usenet@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
news:kG2cb.89870$jV1.77516@twister.austin.rr.com.. .
> Boll Weevil wrote:
> > If you install Solaris 9 x86, the porting kit is included in the main
> > install. You don't need the porting kit with S9.
>
> Does that mean one could, say, install Solaris 9 on a system with
> a GeForce 4 in it (or something else that a sorta-recent XFree86
> release runs on) and have it "just work", preferably through the
> normal kdmconfig way? Or is there still extra hassle involved
> in making things work?
>
> The reason I'm asking is that I have this great dual-processor
> Athlon system that would love to have Solaris on it. (Well,
> if I could ever figure out why the time-of-day stuff seems
> so screwed up -- the Solaris install complains that the battery
> may be dead (which it's not), and then when it gets to the
> point where I should set the date, it just goes into a loop
> where it beeps constantly.)
>
> - Logan
>

Logan:

I know little about the GeForce 4 (I dont own one), but I do know that
installation
of the Solaris Video Porting Kit certainly made the ability to get the CDE
running a
real reality.

Most of the Solaris 9 install on the system I installed it on was very easy
and was a
text mode type install.

Stuart