I’ve cut over to my new Ultra20-M2

Last night I finished (mostly) my migration of data and services from the Sun-owned Ultra 20 (thankyou to Scott for letting me hang on to it this long), sys-unconfig’d it, recabled both the old and new boxes, and powered-on.

It mostly all worked. I have a web (apache httpd 2.2.3 + tomcat 5.5.17)+bind zone to which I’ll add SUNWjet next week, and the global zone is where I do my work.

The biggest annoyance (apart from forgetting to pull across my tomcat SMF service script) was that I had to rejig my XOrg.conf file for the NVidia FX560 card. I’d forgotten that this card can drive both its dual digital outputs properly — unlike the nvs-285 in the old box — and the modelines were different.

I wasn’t able to get both monitors’ configs figured out properly last night using the digital inputs only, so I had to go back to using the DVI-VGA converters and the analog monitor inputs instead. At the moment I’ve got a both monitors mostly working, but my LG L1950-H has some colour integrity issues, mainly in terms of hue and intensity.

Since I was up until 0200 this morning I don’t think I’ll play with the settings again tonight — J has expressed concern that I’m not getting enough sleep. Oh, and when I stumble into bed at that hour I tend to wake her up, too.