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

[Gary Mills]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 02:03:58PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 09/29/16 01:48 PM, Gary Mills wrote:
> >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.

Yes, I discovered that while I was downgrading the nvidia software.
Xorg's NVIDIA driver is a client of the kernel driver.  The two are
quite different in size, and likely in content too.

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-Gary Mills-		-refurb-		-Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-