[oi-dev] nVidia GPU Driver Update for Upcoming Release??

[ken mays]

Hi Ken,
 
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.
 
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.
 
Check with Illumos team as they handle device drivers.
 
~ Ken Mays
 

From: Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net>
To: oi-dev at openindiana.org
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 10:18 PM
Subject: [oi-dev] nVidia GPU Driver Update for Upcoming Release??

Howdy:

On 148b test box here my nVidia drivers are at rev. 256.44, wh/nVidia
released August of last year and a bit glitchy.  Current drivers are at
rev 270.41.19 and per nVidia fix at least the following bugs:

      * Fixed a bug in the VDPAU presentation queue that could cause 1
        second hangs when transitioning from blit-based display to
        overlay- based display. This would most commonly happen when
        disabling a compositing manager.
      * Fixed a bug that could cause crashes when capturing SDI video.
      * Fixed a corner-case in which the OpenGL driver could leak
        resources in applications utilizing fork()


Full reference here:

<http://www.nvidia.com/object/solaris-display-270.41.19-driver.html>


Are there any plans in place for driver update prior to the upcoming
release?  I'm running a Quadro 600 and recently surveyed several Linux
distros, none of which had working drivers available in their package
repositories.  I'm not a developer/programmer but it would seem that
updating to the 270 stuff would be pretty low hanging fruit and help OI
make more favorable first impression on the desktop.

Thanks for your consideration.

-- 
Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net>


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