[OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA driver update

[Ken Gunderson]

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 23:56 +0400, Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote:
> 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 :-)

I brought this up on oi-dev recently and was informed that nvidia
drivers will be updated for 151 release.


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Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net>