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

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:48 PM, Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 07:18:26PM +0300, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
>> On 09/29/16 07:00 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
>>
>> >Out of curiosity what are the constraints tied to such kernel modules?
>> >What makes it different from pre-install/post-install stages with
>> >Virtualbox for instance?
>>
>> Kernel modules will be part of boot archive. So I'm not sure links
>> will work here. Moreover, different modules have different set of
>> supported pci ids. IPS will not handle this. I mean, it can, but
>> this means these packages will be exclusive, you can't install them
>> simultaneously.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 .
>
> I don't know how Xorg determines which video drivers to load, but
> perhaps it could load more of them, one for each NVIDIA driver.
>
> As an alternative, perhaps an NVIDIA wrapper could try each of the
> real drivers in turn until it found one that worked for the installed
> GPU.

One should be careful though, there is a patch in Xorg to select
"nvidia" over the rest if present.
You can check the nvidia-autoconfig patch.



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