[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing Newer Driver from NVIDIA Site

[Jim Klimov]

On November 29, 2018 7:42:10 PM UTC, Stephan Althaus <Stephan.Althaus at Duedinghausen.eu> wrote:
>Hi
>is anyone using different nvidia drivers than version 340.x??
>
>i am trying to use a newer driver for my nvidia card (M2000M),
>the older drivers that support my card fail because they don't support 
>Xorg ABI 23,
>the younger versions won't start with the errors
>Nov 29 09:30:27 dell nvidia: [ID 702911 kern.notice] NOTICE: NVRM: 
>failed to copy vbios to system memory.
>Nov 29 09:30:27 dell nvidia: [ID 702911 kern.notice] NOTICE: NVRM: 
>RmInitAdapter failed! (0x30:0xffff:654)
>Nov 29 09:30:27 dell nvidia: [ID 702911 kern.notice] NOTICE: NVRM: 
>nv_open: rm_init_adapter(0x00000100) failed
>(all logs and system info see attachment)
>
>..while following the instructions here:
>https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Nvidia+Graphics
>
>Tried OI from 05/2018, current OI and one GCC-NEXT, all the same..
>
>Maybe there's some ACPI thing, or some other driver occupying the card?
>
>(discrete graphics on a laptop - intel gpu build in cpu)
>
>Any hints are welcome!
>
>Greetings,
>Stephan
>
>P.S. vesa does work, but does not recognize my external monitor..
>
>On 13.04.18 09:25, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am using exactly this version of thedriver without any problem. BTW
>the driveris developed for Solaris 10 and it istotally compatible with
>Illumos. When and if they switch to Solaris 11, thenit would be
>difficult to use it.
>> AS
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There is a dormant PR on oi-userland where I proposed a number of packages tracking different major versions of nvidia drivers (they all have non-overlapping hardware support). The common nvidia package there becomes a metapackage of sorts, just requiring that at least one actual driver pkg is installed (defaults to 340 as vefore). The branch for that PR probably should be brushed up to current driver versions, but otherwise one can check it out and build private packages as any other for OI. Experiments recommended in a separate BE that you can scrap if broken ;)

I did test it as far as being able to (co-)install various mixes and matches of drivers, with setting any one as preferred by a config for nvidia-selector.

Unfortunately, graphics never worked on my laptop, where apparently my mix of Intel and discrete NVidia (aka Optimus setup) is not supported by any driver I tried; word is the Bumblebee project from other OSes could address that if ported, or BIOS changes that I can't do on a corporate laptop.

Jim

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