[OpenIndiana-discuss] nvidia problem

[Stephan Althaus]

On 03/04/21 10:39 AM, Predrag Zecevic wrote:
> 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:
>
> ---8<------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> ---8<------------------------------------------------------
>
> HTH
> Regards.
>
>>
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Yes,
and you might be able to install mate without the package "install_mate"

i have these installed:

$ pkg list|grep mate|awk '{print $1}'
desktop/mate/caja
desktop/mate/caja/caja-extensions
desktop/mate/control-center
*desktop/mate/marco*
desktop/mate/mate-applets
desktop/mate/mate-backgrounds
desktop/mate/mate-calc
desktop/mate/mate-dictionary
desktop/mate/mate-disk-usage-analyzer
desktop/mate/mate-icon-theme
desktop/mate/mate-media
desktop/mate/mate-notification-daemon
desktop/mate/mate-panel
desktop/mate/mate-power-manager
desktop/mate/mate-screenshot
desktop/mate/mate-search-tool
desktop/mate/mate-session-manager
desktop/mate/mate-settings-daemon
desktop/mate/mate-system-log
desktop/mate/mate-themes
desktop/mate/mate-user-guide
desktop/system-monitor/mate-system-monitor
library/desktop/mate/libmatekbd
library/desktop/mate/libmatemixer
library/desktop/mate/libmateweather
*library/desktop/mate/mate-desktop*
library/desktop/mate/mate-menus
terminal/mate-terminal


Hope this helps

Stephan