[OpenIndiana-discuss] nvidia problem

[Predrag Zecevic]

On 04.03.2021 10:29, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> On Thursday, March 4, 2021, 10:40:56 AM GMT+2, Stephan Althaus <stephan.althaus at duedinghausen.eu> wrote:
> 
> 
>>> Hi Apostolos,
>>>
>>> You might need to replace OI nvidia driver with one from their site
>>> [1], [2]
>>>
> 
> OK but as I have wrote in my original message I
> need to remove the xorg-something package but this
> package is a prerequisite for the install_mate
> package! SO i have to delete mate and then xorg
> to insatll the new nvidia driver but then I will
> not be able to install mate!!! This is a real problem!
> 
> A.S.
Hi Apostolos,

I did it long time ago, and found this in my notes (I am still using 
mate desktop). Not sure if this will work now:

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predrag_zecevic at solarix /nobackup/tmp$ pfexec beadm create oi_190821.nv396
Created successfully
predrag_zecevic at solarix /nobackup/tmp$ pfexec beadm mount 
oi_190821.nv396 /mnt/be
Mounted successfully on: '/mnt/be'
predrag_zecevic at solarix /nobackup/tmp$ pfexec pkg -R /mnt/be uninstall 
-r driver/graphics/nvidia
Creating Plan (Solver setup): -
pkg uninstall: Unable to remove 
'driver/graphics/nvidia at 0.340.107-2018.0.0.1' due to the following 
packages that depend on it:
   x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video at 0.5.11-2018.0.0.1
predrag_zecevic at solarix /nobackup/tmp$ pfexec pkg -R /mnt/be uninstall 
-r driver/graphics/nvidia x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video
Packages to remove: 2
Services to change: 2

PHASE                                          ITEMS
Removing old actions                         233/233
Updating package state database                 Done
Updating package cache                           2/2
Updating image state                            Done
Creating fast lookup database                   Done
Reading search index                            Done
Updating search index                            2/2
Updating package cache                           3/3
predrag_zecevic at solarix /nobackup/tmp$ pfexec /bin/sh 
NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-396.24.run --extract-only
predrag_zecevic at solarix /nobackup/tmp$ cd NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-396.24
predrag_zecevic at solarix /nobackup/tmp/NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-396.24$ pfexec 
pkgadd -R /mnt/be -d . NVDAgraphics NVDAgraphicsr

Processing package instance <NVDAgraphics> from 
</nobackup/tmp/NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-396.24>
...
## Executing postinstall script.
Reboot client to install driver.
Reboot client to install driver.

Installation of <NVDAgraphicsr> was successful.
predrag_zecevic at solarix /nobackup/tmp/NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-396.24$ pfexec 
bootadm update-archive -R /mnt/be
WARNING: ELF file /mnt/be/kernel/drv/nvidia is 32-bit and will be excluded
WARNING: ELF file /mnt/be/kernel/drv/nvidia_modeset is 32-bit and will 
be excluded
Creating boot_archive for /mnt/be
updating /mnt/be/platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive (CPIO)
predrag_zecevic at solarix /nobackup/tmp/NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-396.24$ pfexec 
beadm unmount -f /mnt/be
Unmounted successfully
predrag_zecevic at solarix /nobackup/tmp/NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-396.24$ pfexec 
beadm activate oi_190821.nv396
Activated successfully
predrag_zecevic at solarix /nobackup/tmp/NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-396.24$ pfexec 
reboot -p
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HTH
Regards.

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