Hi everyone,
I just upgraded from 11.1 to 11.3 and now x-windows doesnt work.
Initially it wouldn't do anything, so I followed these steps from the "What's New in 11.3" document:
Updated NVIDIA Drivers
The NVIDIA Graphics legacy driver has now been updated to version 346.35, and supports the newer family of NVIDIA GPUs. Support for older NVIDIA cards is provided by the R340 or R304 legacy drivers.The drivers are available in the repository as driver/graphics/nvidiaR340 and driver/graphics/nvidiaR304 packages.
To install the R340 legacy driver, use the following command:
$ sudo pkg install --reject driver/graphics/nvidia driver/graphics/nvidiaR340
To install the R304 legacy driver, use the following command:
$ sudo pkg install --reject driver/graphics/nvidia driver/graphics/nvidiaR304
After that, when I start gdm, I see the nvidia logo, the background comes up, I get a mouse pointer that I can move around, but the login dialog never comes up. I'm basically left staring at a blank solaris background and a mouse-pointer, but am never able to login at all.
I have no idea where to look to solve this, so if anyone out there has any ideas, they would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks to you all in advance,
-Michael