[OpenIndiana-discuss] Making OI work on Lenovo thinkpad T520 (few issues)

[Milan Jurik]

Hi Sunay,

On 04.05.2012 04:03, Sunay Tripathi wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I just replaced my old thinkpad with a new one using the
> latest OI bits and ran into few issues. The bundled Nvidia
> driver wouldn't bring up the display with liveCD. Seems
> like Nvidia has just released a driver for Quadro4000
> driver (the actual card on laptop is Quadro 4200M Optimus)
> so I installed the machine by doing a
> % ssh -X laptop
> % /usr/bin/gui-install
>
> Once the machine was installed, I did put in the new driver
> but X still doesn't come up. I know many people are running
> with T520 (is there some BIOS setting that need to be changed).
> Any suggestion would be much appreciated.
>

I have no T520, but - what's in Xorg.log?

> The e1000g0 works fine but my Centrino N-6300 keeps failing
> as well related to https://www.illumos.org/issues/2207. Does
> anyone has a workaround on that?
>

port needed support from BSD driver needed :-(

> Thanks a much appreciated.
> Sunay
>

Best regards,

Milan