Installation guide

x86 Conﬁguring Peripherals

The kdmconfig program is used to conﬁgure the mouse, graphics adapter, and

monitor on an x86 system. If an OWconfig ﬁle already exists, kdmconfig will

extract any usable information from it. In addition, this updated version of

kdmconfig will also retrieve information left in the devinfo tree by the devconf

program, and use that information to automatically identify devices. Any attribute

values, such as manufacturer or model information, returned by probes for a given

device (unless it is “Unknown”) take precedence over the value received for the

same attribute from the OWconfig ﬁle.

If all attribute values in the Conﬁrm Conﬁguration screen are obtained (none are

“Unknown”), the default choice is Save and Exit Conﬁguration. If information is

needed, the program selects the ﬁrst Unknown device as the default conﬁguration

selection. You can override the default selection by either selecting another device

you want to conﬁgure or by selecting Save and Exit Conﬁguration instead. When

you exit, kdmconfig checks for Unknown devices and warns you about potential

problems with the X Window System if values are missing. After reading the

warnings, you can either continue with the conﬁguration or exit the program and

conﬁgure the devices later.

The changes regarding the sequence of screens for conﬁguring individual devices are

You can now choose one of the ports (COM1 to COM4, /dev/tty00 to

/dev/tty03, respectively) when conﬁguring a serial mouse.

When conﬁguring a Graphics Card/Monitor, users are now always presented with

the choice of monitors following the selection of the graphics card, and the choices

on other screens that follow (such as resolution and the like) depend on both card

and monitor selections.

The program is similar to the previous version with regard to the character user

interface and the function keys used to navigate within the program.

For addition information regarding the kdmconfig program, see the

kdmconfig(1M) man page.

Optional 8–Bit Locales

The installation window in the English Solaris 2.6 CD offers several English language

locales. To use 8-bit characters, install through one of the en_XX options. The locale

used in the installation becomes the default system locale.

Note - The C locale was installed by default in the base English releases prior to this

release.

3-10 Information Library for Solaris 2.6 (Intel Platform Edition) ♦ August 1997