[OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia Geforce 1650 and Driver Updates

[Stephan Althaus]

Hello!

Just a side-note..

i am using NVidia 455.38 for some time now, no problems here. I have 
NVidia Quadro M1200 on Intel(r) Xeon(r) CPU E3-1535M v6

Stephan


On 12/29/20 16:45, russell wrote:
> Hi
>
> Since replacing my Geforce 750TI with a Geforce 1650 OC card, I have 
> found a some information.
>
> 1. The Nvidia Solaris x86 Driver download 
> NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-455.28.run is the best driver to use with the 
> Geforce 1650 OC.
>
> 2. Any driver after NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-455.28.run like 
> NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-455.38.run and NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-455.45.01.run 
> cause a CPU panic along with a core dump during installation.
>     I have found that it pays to create a clone of the current active 
> boot environment and testing the driver in the clone, this allows easy 
> recovery by selecting the original boot environment and deleting the 
> clone.
>
>     Has anyone tried these drivers? I believe Nvidia have included 
> security fixes for Intel CPUs which maybe the cause of the problem (I 
> have Dual Opteron 2435)
>
> 3. Since upgrading to OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.10 Version 
> illumos-8b1df8bf71, the problem I have with my computer rebooting 
> after failing to start Lightdm has improved generally compared to 
> earlier releases.
>
>    Dec 19 - 2 reboots
>    Dec 20 - 3 reboots
>    Dec 21 - 2 reboots
>    Dec 22 - 3 reboots
>    Dec 23 - 3 reboots
>    Dec 24 - 32 reboots (almost 2 hours of reboots)
>    Dec 25 - 1 reboot
>    Dec 26 - 1 reboot
>    Dec 27 - 6 reboots
>    Dec 28 - 2 reboots
>    Dec 29 - 7 reboots
>
>    Unfortunately Dec 24 was the exception not sure why
>
>
> Regards
>
> Russell
>
>
>
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