[OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia Driver update

[ken mays]

Hi Gordon,

You may want to make Garrett D' Amore aware of this. A possible respin of OI_148 may be proposed if the fix and be added in a reasonable amount of time.

~ Ken Mays


--- On Fri, 12/17/10, Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia Driver update
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Cc: "russell" <stream at willows7.myzen.co.uk>
> Date: Friday, December 17, 2010, 10:52 AM
> Thanks for the tip about this. 
> I've created an illumos issue for it:
> http://www.illumos.org/issues/534
> 
> BTW, this is in bugster as:
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7001754
> 
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:50 AM, ken mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Russell,
> >
> > Tracking: defect.opensolaris.org -> 15751
> >
> > The bug exists in the gfx 'private' VM code at the
> kernel level - so the current Nvidia driver update (i.e.
> 260.19.29) won't resolve this issue for specific Nvidia
> graphic card screen blanking or erractic bus error issues
> > using ONNV_134 through ONNV_155 (i.e. not fixed yet in
> kernel builds from Oracle nor recent Illumos team's
> modifications).
> >
> > This is also mentioned in the Nvidia forums on
> 11-21-2010:
> >
> > Ref: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=0c68b32f827e126370f72b94897f7449&t=157223
> >
> [...]
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