[OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia driver

[Guy Woolley]

  I had the same problem and ended up changing from the "Vesa" driver to 
"nv"

The Nvidia driver for Opensolaris is unfortunately buggy - see
https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=15751

It's unknown when it will be fixed, but nothing really to do with OI147.

Cheers

Guy


On 12/14/10 06:40 PM, russell 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 
> 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.
>
>
>
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