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

[Michael]

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
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Michael Schuster