[oi-dev] Change in video driver ABI

[Jean-Pierre André]

Aurélien Larcher wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:48 AM, Jean-Pierre André
> <jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr <mailto:jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr>> wrote:
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>     Aurélien Larcher wrote:
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>         On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Jean-Pierre André
>         <jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr
>         <mailto:jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr>
>         <mailto:jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr
>         <mailto:jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr>>> wrote:
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>              Jean-Pierre André wrote:
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>     [...]
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>              Update : I see the following comment for
>         NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.135
>              "Added support for X.Org xserver ABI 23 (xorg-server 1.19)"
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>              Is that the new ABI used by Xorg on OpenIndiana ?
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>         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.
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>     Ok, thanks. In the Nvidia changelog, I see that
>     NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.131 has support for ABI 20,
>     so I am to try this one.
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> The support is backward compatible, so the latest will work as well.
>

So I tried :
- NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.131
- NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.132
- NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.135

The first couple of them use ABI 20, and the last one
uses ABI 23.

They run successfully with the initial BE, and they all
fail the same way with the updated BE. When switching to
graphics mode, I get a black screen with a winking cursor
on the top left. The keyboard and mouse are probably not
working (but I can connect through ssh to find out what
is going on).

There are a lot of differences in the Xorg.log. Below are
the main the differences for NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.135
running on the working BE and on the updated BE (so the
driver is the same, but Xorg is different).

I have put all the differences on
http://jp-andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/Xorg.5jun.zip

A lot of missing initializations, such as

< [] Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
< [] Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
< [] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
< [] Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
< [] Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(and 22 more similar lines)

Missing report about module tsol (it was expected to fail,
but the point here is the loading was not even tried).

< [] Loading extension SolarisIA
< [] (II) LoadModule: "xtsol"
< [] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module xtsol
< [] (II) UnloadModule: "xtsol"
< [] (II) Unloading xtsol
< [] (EE) Failed to load module "xtsol" (module does not exist, 0)

EDID information not taken into account :

< [] (**) NVIDIA(0): Using HorizSync/VertRefresh ranges from the EDID 
for display
< [] (**) NVIDIA(0):     device IQT L70S (CRT-0) (Using EDID frequencies 
has been
< [] (**) NVIDIA(0):     enabled on all display devices.)

This looks much like some package is missing.

Jean-Pierre

>
>     Jean-Pierre
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>
>         Kind regards
>
>         Aurélien