Hi all, after the intel installation of Solaris 8 without problems the system comes up and I get the login frame and can login without problems. After about 30 sec. the PC seems to stop because nothing happend. I can see on screen just the solaris advert. After 2 min. the sreen becomes black and after another 2 min I get on the left side the cde help menue and on right side the file manager. That's all. No cde is shown on screen and if I close these two windows I have a blank black screen. The only chance I have is to open a terminal window in the menue of the file manager for to shutdown the system. I already installed Solaris 8 on two absolute total diffrent PC's (one is a AMD Athlon 1 GHz, IDE and AGP VGA, the other PC is a K6-550, SCSI and a PCI VGA card) - but still on BOTH PC's the SAME fault (behave). Is somebody having an idea what could be the fault? I become mad already... Thanks. -Karsten

Did you try login as root? was it the same problem? if login as root is okay, then your home directory is not properly configured. QLi

Hello User, I found probably the reason, but at first I'd like to answer the question of response No. 1. Yes, at the moment I log in always as root because I've no idea how to create a new user. This will be the next step. It seems if solaris have problems with [communication?]hardware the whole system has a problem. I reinstalled the system without network connection and it works perfect now! I belive that solaris is not supporting my pnp network card. Although I havn't found them in the supportet hw list. I got in touch with the manufacturer for help and I got some instructions already. After I test them out I'll let you know the result. So for the future: if solaris is making problems it could be a part of the hardware. By the way: Linux is not making such problems. If there is a [pci or other]card not working, it'll start and I can work anyway. I can't understand that a network card has such impact for the WHOLE system instead simply to show an alert window. -Karsten

i used to get the same errors in linux. I did some research and I found out there was a problem with the window manager. As far as I know most unix systems have some sort of window manager so they can get a graphical environment up and running. Try to look at the config file for the window manager, it might solve the problem. If not you can try investigating the refresh rate of your monitor to see if it's compatible with the config.Best of luck.