Live Install - Monitor "Out of Range"

Brand new to Solaris, and fairly new to *nix.
Tried installing from the Live CD, and my monitor goes "out of range" when the GUI boots. Likewise, did the text installer, installed "slim_install" and enabled gdm and the same same thing occurred. I am able to boot from the Live CD with the VESA driver, but curious how to troubleshoot and resolve the issue without using VESA.
Video is Intel i915.
What would be the best avenue to t/s? Is there a config file I can use to specify the default video settings? Or is this a driver issue?

Just adding 1 to the kernel boot line is enough to boot in single user mode.
Try removing kdm from rc.conf and instead edit /etc/inittab where you can change the default run level from 3 to 5
id:5:initdefault:
and run kdm rather than xdm
x:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon
If you get stuck in future, add 3 to the end of your boot line - you'll be in multi-user text mode but with network running so you can download packages, browse the forum with links. I recommend downloading the (text mode) mc file manager which also provides mcedit.

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