[OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE GPU not supported on hipster

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 09/29/16 01:48 PM, Gary Mills wrote:
> Perhaps it would be better to have all the nvidia drivers installed
> under different names, nvidia304_drv.so for example.  I see that
> Nvidia has several legacy drivers, not just one.

My understanding is that cannot work with the way the Nvidia drivers
are currently written, which is why we package them separately and
only install one at a time.

> I see from the log that Xorg loads its NVIDIA driver from
> /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/amd64/nvidia_drv.so and its VESA driver
> from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/amd64/vesa_drv.so .  These drivers
> must in turn load the system drivers.  For example, VESA driver must
> load /kernel/drv/amd64/vgatext .

Nope - the kernel loads those early in boot long before Xorg is loaded,
and Xorg uses information from the kernel about which it loaded to help
select which Xorg driver module to load to work with it.

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