SPARC M8 and SPARC M7 Servers Administration Guide

Enable a Local Display Monitor

If you have purchased and installed a graphics card in your SPARC M8-8 server, perform the following procedure to enable the X server to provide display services to the monitor. By default, the SPARC M8-8 server is configured to use Xvnc as the X server. This procedure shows how to override the Xvnc server and enable the Xorg server which must be used to display to a monitor.

1. Log in to Oracle Solaris and switch to the root role or other administrator role by using the su command.
2. Use the following command to disable the Xvnc server and enable the Xorg server.

   # svccfg -s application/x11/x11-server setprop options/vncplatform_override = boolean: true

3. Restart the display manager service.

   # svcadm restart gdm

4. (Optional) List the value of the property.

   # svcprop -p options/vncplatform_override svc:/application/x11/x11-server