On SPARC, Solaris 11 Express supports the following video cards:
XVR-50 (onboard graphics on some SPARC servers)
XVR-100 (PCI board)
XVR-300 (PCIe board)
XVR-2500 (PCIe board)
AST2100/2200 (Service Processor/Remote KVM)
The bootable text install CD for SPARC doesn't install X or Gnome.
To get a GUI working, the easiest way is to bring in the babel install - remember in Solaris 11 Express pfexec has been depricated, so you have to use sudo now:
After installing, to enable graphical login:
The directions to get a GUI going with a text install will also work on an x86 machine so you don't need to do a complete reinstall there if you didn't install the machine with one to begin with.
XVR-50 (onboard graphics on some SPARC servers)
XVR-100 (PCI board)
XVR-300 (PCIe board)
XVR-2500 (PCIe board)
AST2100/2200 (Service Processor/Remote KVM)
The bootable text install CD for SPARC doesn't install X or Gnome.
To get a GUI working, the easiest way is to bring in the babel install - remember in Solaris 11 Express pfexec has been depricated, so you have to use sudo now:
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sudo pkg install babel_install
After installing, to enable graphical login:
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sudo svcadm enable gdm
The directions to get a GUI going with a text install will also work on an x86 machine so you don't need to do a complete reinstall there if you didn't install the machine with one to begin with.