[OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia driver

[Michael Schuster]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 19:40, russell <stream at willows7.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>  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

you need to check which cards the driver you're installing actually
supports (maybe you did that, but you don't say so explicitly) at
download - not every driver from Nvidia supports every card out there.

HTH
Michael
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regards/mit freundlichen Grüssen
Michael Schuster