<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Hi Ken,</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">A few patches from Oracle missing and a small licensing issue from Nvidia on the redistribution by third parties policy if you use the one from Nvidia's website.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Actually, the policy has not been challenged as far as I know - dealing with including the native driver from the Nvida website versus Oracle's modified version.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Check with Illumos team as they handle dev<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>ice drivers.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">~ Ken Mays</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> oi-dev@openindiana.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Saturday, May 21, 2011 10:18 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [oi-dev] nVidia GPU Driver Update for Upcoming Release??<BR></FONT><BR>Howdy:<BR><BR>On 148b test box here my nVidia drivers are at rev. 256.44, wh/nVidia<BR>released August of last year and a bit glitchy. Current drivers are at<BR>rev 270.41.19 and per nVidia fix at least the following bugs:<BR><BR> * Fixed a bug
in the VDPAU presentation queue that could cause 1<BR> second hangs when transitioning from blit-based display to<BR> overlay- based display. This would most commonly happen when<BR> disabling a compositing manager.<BR> * Fixed a bug that could cause crashes when capturing SDI video.<BR> * Fixed a corner-case in which the OpenGL driver could leak<BR> resources in applications utilizing fork()<BR><BR><BR>Full reference here:<BR><BR><http://www.nvidia.com/object/solaris-display-270.41.19-driver.html><BR><BR><BR>Are there any plans in place for driver update prior to the upcoming<BR>release? I'm running a Quadro 600 and recently surveyed several Linux<BR>distros, none of which had working drivers available in their package<BR>repositories. I'm not a developer/programmer but it would seem
that<BR>updating to the 270 stuff would be pretty low hanging fruit and help OI<BR>make more favorable first impression on the desktop.<BR><BR>Thanks for your consideration.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Ken Gunderson <<A href="mailto:kgunders@teamcool.net" ymailto="mailto:kgunders@teamcool.net">kgunders@teamcool.net</A>><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>oi-dev mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org" ymailto="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org">oi-dev@openindiana.org</A><BR>http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev<BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>