[oi-dev] Change in video driver ABI

[Jean-Pierre André]

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/amd64/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.

Are the recent changes in the video ABI in line with the
changes to Solaris ?

Jean-Pierre