[OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia driver

[russell]

  Hi,

Openindiana started to report many errors relating to my Nvidia 8600GTS 
graphics card, so I replaced it with an Nvidia GT200 card. I also took 
this as an opportunity to re-organise my disk storage by utiltising 
different controllers.

After swapping the card and re-installing OpenIndiana, performing a 
normal install, the screen when blank and then my computer rebooted 
after 10-15 minutes. If at boot I selected the vesa display, I could 
access the display and the installation proceeded normally.

After getting a working system, I then attempted to install the latest 
Nvidia driver which also caused the screen to blank. I tried booting to 
single user by adding -s to the kernel line in grub, this failed to work 
the screen also went blank.

Eventually I just re-installed OpenIndiana (my OS and DATA are 
completely seperate) and then tried the Nvidia driver which has been 
tested to work with OpenIndiana according to the Wiki. Again, the screen 
goes blank it is not possible to boot in single user.

As a suggestion, as part of the standard installation of OpenIndiana, 
can an additional text only boot option be provided as standard.

Can you please include a the latest Nvidia driver in build 148.