[oi-dev] Change in video driver ABI

[Jean-Pierre André]

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/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.

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 ?


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