[OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated NVIDIA drivers

[Stephan Althaus]

On 03/12/21 10:39 PM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss 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.
>
> "scanpci -v" produces this for the graphics card in my Z400:
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> 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:
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> GRAPHIC_DRIVER=`/sbin/ `
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> 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.
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> 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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Hello!

The current state was one single step forward to at least *have* more 
than one single driver version. Let us the next steps follow up.

A script to find a drinver at source level would be doing something like

*$ find ~/src/oi-userland/components/openindiana/ -name 
"driver-graphics-nvidia*.p5m" -exec grep -iH 638 {}  \;*
/home1/home/steven/src/oi/hoewweken/oi-userland/components/openindiana/*nvidia-340*/driver-graphics-nvidia.p5m: 
alias="pci10de,638" \

or

*$ find ~/src/oi-userland/components/openindiana/ -name 
"driver-graphics-nvidia*.p5m" -exec grep -iH 13b6 {}  \;*
/home1/home/steven/src/oi/hoewweken/oi-userland/components/openindiana/*nvidia-390*/driver-graphics-nvidia-390.p5m: 
alias="pci10de,13b6" \
/home1/home/steven/src/oi/hoewweken/oi-userland/components/openindiana/*nvidia-460*/driver-graphics-nvidia-460.p5m: 
alias="pci10de,13b6" \

.. and extract the appopriate driver version from the filenames given.

An other idea would be to create a map (pciid,drivername) at build time 
for an install script.

But i don't know how to integrate this into the build system nor at 
packaging level. At least up to know. And i am of the opinion that 
learning never stops, anyway :-)

Greetings,

Stephan