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

[ken mays]

To Ken Gunderson,

The Quadro 600 works fine.

If you want a basic low-cost graphics card, you can use the GeForce GT 430 or NVIDIA 9600 GT which is available in most stores today for about $50-$80 USD. I suggest the Nvidia 9600 GT if you're a casual 3D user (i.e. gaming or otherwise), or the GT 430 if you need something more 'low profile'...

I'll update the HCL to reflect 'cheaper' cards.


To Guy, 

Colin Ellis is reviewing the issues with DRI/DMA support for the Illumos team. A patch fix is available through Oracle's X team for the reported bug/CR 7001754 (not officially committed yet to resolve bug so I'll say 'no' for the record).

Sidenote: I've tested the Nvidia drivers up to v260.19.36 with OI 148.
With the default drivers included, you can go as high-end as the Quadro 6000.

~ Ken Mays







--- On Thu, 2/10/11, Guy Woolley <guy.woolley at btinternet.com> wrote:

> From: Guy Woolley <guy.woolley at btinternet.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice
> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Date: Thursday, February 10, 2011, 3:57 AM
>  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:-)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5296653&SRCCODE=WEBLET03ORDER&
> cm_mmc=Email-_-WebletMain-_-WEBLET03ORDER-_-Deals
> > 
> >  http://www.nvidia.com/object/solaris-display-256.44-driver.html
> > 
> 
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