[oi-dev] Change in video driver ABI

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Jean-Pierre André <
jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Jean-Pierre André wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I upgraded a Hipster installation from April 2016
>> to the latest state (by starting a pkg update).
>>
>> I apparently could not boot beyond the single user mode, but
>> the real reason appears to lie in a change in the video driver
>> ABI. The Xorg log shows :
>>
>> [   311.868] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
>> [   311.868]    compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
>> [   311.868]    Module class: X.Org Server Extension
>> [   311.868] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module  304.125  Mon Dec  1 21:04:29 PST 2014
>> [   312.362] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
>> [   312.435] (II) Loading /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/a
>> md64/nvidia_drv.so
>> [   312.525] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
>> [   312.526]    compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
>> [   312.526]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>> [   312.529] ================ WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
>> ================
>> [   312.529] This server has a video driver ABI version of 20.0 that is
>> not
>> supported by this NVIDIA driver.  Please check
>> http://www.nvidia.com/ for driver updates or downgrade to an X
>> server with a supported driver ABI.
>> [   312.529]
>> =================================================================
>> [   312.529] (EE) NVIDIA: Use the -ignoreABI option to override this
>> check.
>>
>> This is with an Nvidia video "GeForce 6150 LE" not supported
>> by former nvidia drivers shipped with OpenIndiana, so I had
>> to use a legacy driver for Solaris. The one I was using is
>> NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.125, and on the Nvidia site there is
>> a newer NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.135.run which I have not tried
>> yet.
>>
>
> Update : I see the following comment for NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.135
> "Added support for X.Org xserver ABI 23 (xorg-server 1.19)"
>
> Is that the new ABI used by Xorg on OpenIndiana ?


One always needs to update to a driver version supported by the current
Xorg.
We updated to 1.18 (ABI == 20) and soon we will update to 1.19 (ABI == 23),
so you should install the driver you mention.

Kind regards

Aurélien



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>> Are the recent changes in the video ABI in line with the
>> changes to Solaris ?
>>
>> Jean-Pierre
>>
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