[OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

[Guy Woolley]

  Ken,
        Have you seen this bug report ?
> https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=15751

I haven't tried the 256.44 driver but my GEForce 220 certainly hasn't 
worked on OI (or earlier Opensolaris)
with earlier Nvidia drivers for it - John Martin's Comments seem to 
suggest that neither Oracle nor Nvidia are very interested in a  problem 
in a fairly cheap consumer graphics card that works fine with popular OS 
(it works fine for me under WinXP - I have a dual boot PC). I expect Ken 
Mays knows better than I about the current situation.



Best of luck

Guy

On 02/10/11 07:30 AM, Edward Martinez wrote:
> On 02/09/11 21:52, Ken Gunderson wrote:
>> Hello People:
>>
>> I need a new graphics card for an older system (PCIE-1.0). I don't game,
>> do graphics, rendering, etc. so don't need high end - just a good
>> workstation unit that supports OpenGL, good color accuracy, and draws
>> square squares :)  Occasional DVD's are probably about the most GPU
>> intensive use the system sees. Noisy fans and failed fan bearings are a
>> drag, so passive cooling is a plus, but not always a must as long as the
>> card doesn't make the box sound like a hovercraft.
>>
>> So I thought I'd consult that newly created HCL wiki and was pleased to
>> note the Quadro 600 is "officially supported".  The Quadro 600's price
>> point is attractive but otherwise I don't know much about it, as it's
>> relatively new unit. So I've a question for Mr. Mays; is the 600 your
>> daily driver, and if so, how do you like it?.
>>
>> Also, the nVidia 256.44 driver's support many, many cards, yet only 4
>> models are listed.  I'm curios why this might be?  Shouldn't pretty much
>> any of the cards supported by those drivers work?  Or is this list just
>> a sample of stuff that's actually been tested by the OI community?
>>
>> I'm not very familiar with nVidia's line and welcome suggestions.
>>
>> Thanks bunches.
>>
>     Hello,
>
>     I just order an nvidia Geforce GT 220 to use with OI, the onboard 
> video is to weak for me, and it's listed on nvidia 's 256,44 driver  
> supported
>     list. I will let you know if it works soon:-)
>
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>  http://www.nvidia.com/object/solaris-display-256.44-driver.html
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