[OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated NVIDIA drivers

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:40 PM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
<openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

>  I don't know why I should expect anything different given that gparted
> dumps core in 2020.10 and doesn't recognize a Windows 7 Pro and Debian 9.3
> installation on a 2 TB disk in 2017.10.
>
> Still not detecting the card and installing the correct driver seems
> rather lame.
>

Nice way to thank someone who just spent a few evenings trying to help you.



>
> "scanpci -v" produces this for the graphics card in my Z400:
>
> pci bus 0x000f cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x0638
>  NVIDIA Corporation G94GL [Quadro FX 1800]
>  CardVendor 0x10de card 0x062c (NVIDIA Corporation, Card unknown)
>  STATUS 0x0010 COMMAND 0x0047
>  CLASS 0x03 0x00 0x00 REVISION 0xa1
>  BIST 0x00 HEADER 0x00 LATENCY 0x00 CACHE 0x00
>  BASE0 0xf6000000 SIZE 16777216 MEM
>  BASE1 0x00000000e0000000 SIZE 268435456 MEM64 PREFETCHABLE
>  BASE3 0x00000000f4000000 SIZE 33554432 MEM64
>  BASE5 0x0000e000 SIZE 128 I/O
>  MAX_LAT 0x00 MIN_GNT 0x00 INT_PIN 0x01 INT_LINE 0x03
>
> I don't see a lot of difficulty to writing a shell script that takes the
> output of scanpci and spits out the appropriate nVidia driver number. If
> the install system is sane enough that such a solution will work, I'll
> write and maintain it.
>
> I am proposing:
>
> GRAPHIC_DRIVER=`/sbin/ `
>
> If that is not a viable solution for some reason, then I'm not likely to
> keep using OI. I've repeatedly volunteered to help over the last 8-10
> years. I've never ever received useful replies. In most cases, not even a
> useless reply. Mostly I just see whining about the limited number of people
> providing support.
>
> I estimate that "nvidia_driver_to_use" would take 3-4 hours to write. Wall
> time longer if I need to contact nVidia for device and driver mappings. If
> you demand that I spend 2-3 days analyzing the horribly borked install
> process, it's just not going to happen.
>
> I might do that, but only if I get replies.
>
> Reg
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