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

[Guy Woolley]

  You just need to look at /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change "vesa" to "nv" 
- that should do it. My Xorg.conf file reads simply.


Section "Device"
     Identifier  "Card0"
     Driver      "nv"
EndSection

I have a 27" monitor that needs 1920 x 1080. Vesa looks terrible for me 
as it doesn't get past 1280x 1024 (if I remember rightly). It's a shame 
as this card is a) cheap and b) looks pretty good when it does its stuff 
under WinXP.

The other downside is that most of the Screensavers shipped with OI 
don't work for me.

Best of luck

Guy

On 02/14/11 09:47 AM, Edward M wrote:
> On 02/12/11 00:23, Guy Woolley wrote:
>> Edward,
>>               The system dies at the point you would expect Gnome to 
>> fire up - that's the effect of the kernel bug. But you can start OI 
>> if you choose the VESA option, and from there you can switch to the 
>> NV driver which comes with OI, which is what I've done. Illumos are 
>> aware of the problem and it's being reviewed by Colin Ellis for them. 
>
>
>   Hi,
>   Thanks for the info. I guess I continue using this card with OI 
> after all in VESA mode and later i'll try switching to NV.
>