[OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia driver

[Guy Woolley]

  Two further comments added to bug 15751 today - no change.

On 12/14/10 07:11 PM, Guy Woolley wrote:
>  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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