X Server on Sunfire with no graphics card

From: Jayan Kandathil (jayank_at_rogers.com)
Date: 06/30/03 

Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 04:22:52 GMT

Hello:

I have a Sunfire v480 with no graphics card. Solaris 9 (04/03) is running
on it. Trying to run VNC Server generates errors like these in the VNC log:
xrdb: Interrupted system call
xrdb: Can't open display 'ap-sun1:1'
xsetroot: unable to open display 'ap-sun1:1'
twm: unable to open display "ap-sun1:1"
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: ap-sun1:1

Can someone please give me some directions? I am a Solaris newbie from the
Windows world. I need to install and run Oracle 9i on this machine. If
it's any help, the ps -ef output looks like this:

ap-sun1# ps -ef
     UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
    root 0 0 0 Jun 26 ? 0:01 sched
    root 1 0 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /etc/init -
    root 2 0 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 pageout
    root 3 0 1 Jun 26 ? 84:17 fsflush
    root 425 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/saf/sac -t 300
    root 240 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /bin/sh ./ssdgrptd exec
    root 428 425 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/saf/ttymon
    root 49 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/sysevent/syseventd
    root 54 1 0 Jun 26 ? 10:26 /usr/lib/picl/picld
    root 106 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpcbind
    root 129 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd -s
  daemon 147 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/nfs/statd
    root 153 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/autofs/automountd
    root 188 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/lpsched
    root 150 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/nfs/lockd
    root 165 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd
    root 216 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/ssserver
    root 183 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd
    root 168 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
    root 455 402 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 mibiisa -r -p 32790
    root 332 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/sadm/lib/smc/bin/smcboot
    root 224 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:04 /usr/sbin/ssmon
    root 335 332 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/sadm/lib/smc/bin/smcboot
    root 434 240 0 Jun 26 ? 14:23 /usr/java/jre/bin/java -jar
ssdgrptd.jar
    root 314 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/utmpd
    root 288 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/power/powerd
    root 334 332 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/sadm/lib/smc/bin/smcboot
    root 402 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx -y -c
/etc/snmp/conf
    root 413 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/dmi/snmpXdmid -s
ap-sun1
    root 1108 1106 0 00:09:12 pts/1 0:00 -sh
    root 376 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/nfs/mountd
    root 378 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:01 /usr/lib/nfs/nfsd
    root 431 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
    root 426 1 0 Jun 26 console 0:00 /usr/lib/saf/ttymon -g -h -p
ap-sun1 console login: -T sun -d /dev/console -l
    root 418 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/vold
    root 412 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/dmi/dmispd
    root 401 1 0 Jun 26 ? 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dtlogin -daemon
    root 1130 1112 0 00:17:08 pts/1 0:00 ps -ef
    root 1106 129 0 00:09:12 ? 0:00 in.telnetd
    root 1112 1108 0 00:09:22 pts/1 0:00 csh

Thanks very much.

- Jayan

Jayan Kandathil
Ottawa, Canada