[OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA driver update

[Andrey N. Oktyabrski]

On 01.06.11 23:42, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
>> Is it possible to replace the nvidia driver packages 256.44 by the 270.41
>> (from the NVIDIA site) in the openindiana.org IPS repository?
>
> Yes and I am using 270.41.06 but you need to do something like the
> following to install the new driver:
>
> $ pfexec beadm list
> $ pfexec beadm create oi-nvidia
> $ pfexec beadm mount oi-nvidia /mnt
> $ pfexec pkg -R /mnt uninstall -r driver/graphics/nvidia
> $ pfexec /bin/sh NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-270.41.06.run --extract-only
> $ cd NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-270.41.06
> $ pfexec pkgadd -R /mnt -d . NVDAgraphics NVDAgraphicsr
> $ pfexec bootadm update-archive -R /mnt
> $ pfexec beadm unmount -f oi-nvidia
> $ pfexec beadm activate oi-nvidia
> $ pfexec reboot -p

Thank you, I'll try this.

Anyway, "pkg image-update" is much more right way :-)