[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 147 doesn't get screen size right

Jonathan Adams t12nslookup at gmail.com
Mon Nov 8 14:25:03 UTC 2010


I know that this thread has finished, but a user called "seeger"
posted on the laptop-discuss:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=135165&tstart=0

apparently NVidia have just released upgraded versions of their driver
that fix multiple issues on on b134

Jon

On 29 October 2010 09:14, Michael <michaelsprivate at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 20:36, Charles Seeger <seeger at cise.ufl.edu> wrote:
>> +------ Guido Berhoerster wrote (Thu, 14-Oct-2010, 14:15 +0200):
>> | * Michael <michaelsprivate at gmail.com> [2010-10-14 14:02]:
>> | > it seems all I have from nvidia is the driver that came w. osol 134 -
>> | > could that be the case (even then, I can't remember seeing this with
>> | > any build of osol)?
>> |
>> | Yes, OpenIndiana does not provide newer versions of the closed
>> | Nvidia driver.
>>
>> Sorry if all this is well known.
>> NVidia has Solaris drivers for download, but Sun/Oracle ships
>> modified versions.  For instance, see:
>>
>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2010-September/004651.html
>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2010-September/004652.html
>>
>> http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=131239
>>
>> ftp://download.nvidia.com/solaris/
>>
>> Hopefully, updated Oracle-modified NVidia drivers will ship with
>> the next Solaris Express, but those probably will come with limits
>> on redistribution.
>
> I tried copying the contents of the complete nvidia package (the one
> that contains kernel/drv/nvidia) from build 150 into an oi boot env,
> but that didn't change the behaviour.
>
> Michael
> --
> regards/mit freundlichen Grüssen
> Michael Schuster
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