[OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia GT430

[ken mays]

Hello,

Please remove the default video driver and use this for development and testing:

ftp://download.nvidia.com/solaris/270.41.03/NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-270.41.03.run

~ Ken Mays



--- On Thu, 4/14/11, Frank Middleton <f.middleton at apogeect.com> wrote:

> From: Frank Middleton <f.middleton at apogeect.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia GT430
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Cc: "Jeff Goldrich" <jeff.muzza at gmail.com>
> Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 8:06 PM
> On 04/12/11 22:30, Jeff Goldrich
> wrote:
> > This graphics card is 'verified' to work on OI 148 but
> exactly how remains a
> > mystery to me. My GTX 460 installs fine however my
> Galaxy GT 430 is not
> 
> Which Nvidia driver version are you using? I found the
> GTX460 to be
> so unstable with the stock driver that it was useless. It
> works much
> better with the 270.26 "beta" version. I wonder if the
> GT430 might
> also work with 270.26. If you are not using 270.26 and want
> to upgrade,
> remember to pkg uninstall the existing driver first (or you
> might destroy
> /sbin and make your system unbootable).
> 
> Even with 270.26, I'm running into Osol bug id 5748 only
> too often. I was
> wondering if you had experienced this bug when using the
> GTX460...
> https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5748
> 
> Cheers -- Frank
> 
> 
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