[oi-dev] Change in video driver ABI

[Gary Mills]

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 05:38:06PM +0200, Jean-Pierre André wrote:
> Gary Mills wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 09:24:26AM +0200, Jean-Pierre André wrote:
> >>Yesterday I upgraded a Hipster installation from April 2016
> >>to the latest state (by starting a pkg update).
> >
> >I had a similar problem, and have partially solved it.  I had an AMD
> >Athlon system with an NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE video card.  It was
> >running OI Hipster installed from the 20160421 ISO.  I had installed
> >NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.132 to get it to recognize the video card.
> >When I upgraded to the current Hipster in a new BE, the BE failed to
> >boot.
> >
> >I couldn't find a way to uninstall the Nvidia software I had
> >installed, but I was able to boot an old BE that I made before I
> >installed the software.  It was using the VESA driver for that video
> >card, but otherwise everything ran normally.
> 
> Uninstalling the driver should be straightforward :
> the install script first only does a "pkgrm" to remove
> the former version (before doing a "pkgadd" to install
> the requested one).

No, because those are System V package commands.  They still could
have damaged the previous intallation of an IPS package.

> >Then I replaced the video card with a new low-end one that seemed
> >current.  It was an Nvidia card with a GT730 GPU.  The cost was less
> >than $100.  Hipster recognized that card.  It described my monitor
> >correctly and set the resolution to the monitor's default.  The Nvidia
> >X Server Settings GUI worked.
> 
> So you are also back to square one. I took a simpler
> approach by restoring the whole system from a backup.
> My understanding is that irreversible changes have been
> made somewhere (dead symlinks have been found, so some
> newly required feature is probably not available in older
> drivers).

I'm not quite back to square one.  I now have a stable standard system
with a modern video card.  The OS upgrade should proceed correctly
now.  If not, there's a bug in the new Hipster version.

> And I have to give up upgrading.

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