Monday, October 24, 2005

Mounting first slice on sunblade 150 when booting to single user mode from boot cdrom -s

The question about how to mount the first slice under solaris 8 after booting from CD using the boot cdrom -s. This was loosley based on the information available on Adding a Second hard drive to sunblade 100/150(Here).

creating a mount point. Most of the stuff is mounted under /tmp/ so I decided I would create a directory under /tmp/.

mkdir -p /tmp/disk
mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /tmp/disk

the file system type is case sensitive.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Multiple Monitors Nvidia Drivers Intel 915GAG

RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4 Update 1
Three Video Cards: One integrated and Two GeForce 2MX PCI cards. PCI-Express cards are just so expensive :((

For the life of me I couldn't both video cards to be detected the second one would always show up as:
(WW) Nvidia: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:6:0:1) found
I tried all kinds of configurations, the utility from RedHat system-config-display was essentially useless.

After much trails and
I found that Xorg -configure will correctly detect all of the cards, and then you can make use of cheesy tools like system-config-display to correctly set the monitors their refresh rates and the desired color depth.