[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing Newer Driver from NVIDIA Site

Thu Nov 29 21:43:26 UTC 2018

Hi

By checking if NVIDIA advertises it as such. It's a marketing term from
Nvidia. See [0] for some stuff that linux can do. There seem to be X.org
configs you can write to only use the nvidia card. You will need to
check what works.

There should also be an option in the BIOS to disable one of the Cards.
If you are lucky you can disable the intel one.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus

Greetings
Till
On 11/29/18 09:30 PM, Stephan Althaus wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> How can i determine if my system is "optimus"
> My Card is a quadro m2000m, not a geforce ...
> 
> a) my ubuntu installation on this machine does not have the
> bumblebee-packages installed
> b )The Xorg.0.log when using VESA is saying that it uses the nvidia card
> .. so i hope this is _not_ an optimus thing.
> 
> [   283.548] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
> [   283.548] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/amd64/vesa_drv.so
> [   283.549] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> [   283.549]     compiled for 1.19.5, module version = 2.3.4
> [   283.549]     Module class: X.Org Video Driver
> [   283.549]     ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0
> [   283.549] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
> [   283.549] (++) using VT number 7
> 
> [   283.559] (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card
> support
> [   283.559] (II) Loading sub module "vbe"
> [   283.559] (II) LoadModule: "vbe"
> [   283.560] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/amd64/libvbe.so
> [   283.560] (II) Module vbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> [   283.560]     compiled for 1.19.6, module version = 1.1.0
> [   283.560]     ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0
> [   283.560] (II) Loading sub module "int10"
> [   283.560] (II) LoadModule: "int10"
> [   283.560] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/amd64/libint10.so
> [   283.560] (II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> [   283.560]     compiled for 1.19.6, module version = 1.0.0
> [   283.560]     ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0
> [   283.560] (II) VESA(0): initializing int10
> [   283.564] (II) VESA(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
> [   283.812] (II) VESA(0): VESA BIOS detected
> [   283.812] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0
> [   283.812] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 16384 kB
> [   283.812] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM: NVIDIA
> [   283.812] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 130.7
> [   283.812] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
> [   283.812] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: GM107 Board - 27040010
> [   283.812] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: Chip Rev
> [   284.262] (==) VESA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
> [   284.262] (==) VESA(0): RGB weight 888
> [   284.262] (==) VESA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> [   284.262] (==) VESA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> [   284.262] (II) Loading sub module "ddc"
> [   284.262] (II) LoadModule: "ddc"
> [   284.262] (II) Module "ddc" already built-in
> [   284.268] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC supported
> [   284.268] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC Level none
> [   284.268] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC transfer in appr. 0 sec.
> [   284.334] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC read failed
> [   284.336] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE PanelID read failed
> [   284.336] (II) VESA(0): Searching for matching VESA mode(s):
> 
> 
> On 29.11.18 20:59, Till Wegmüller wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> With discrete cards it can get complicated. There is a special
>> application that i need to be able to use my Discrete card. Called
>> Bumblebee. But I don't know if it runs on OI. My Laptop is still Arch
>> linux. Intel is mostly the main Card handling all the Outputs in my
>> case. So you will probably need the intel graphics driver to work.
>> Unless you have some other variant where the Nvidia Graphics Card
>> actually runs the outputs. My dekstop runs an GTX960 with an 340.107
>> driver. The one from the repo. But thats a dedicated graphics card.
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps
>> Greetings
>> Till
>>
>> On 11/29/18 08:42 PM, Stephan Althaus 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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