[OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated NVIDIA drivers

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 3/14/21 9:33 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 3/13/21 4:32 PM, John D Groenveld wrote:
>> In message <d3964437-8497-64ca-13ab-c059aa735197 at oracle.com>, Alan Coopersmith 
>> writes:
>>> There is no way to script this inside IPS packages - instead your script
>>> would have to be outside the packaging system and run pkg commands to
>>> install/uninstall the packages as neto.
>>
>> Did Oracle consider using a mediator to set the system's nVidia version
>> branch?
>> <URL:http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/manifest/0/driver%2Fgraphics%2FnvidiaR304@0.304.137.0%2C5.11-11.4.0.0.1.1.0%3A20180226T183047Z> 
>>
>> <URL:http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/manifest/0/driver%2Fgraphics%2FnvidiaR340@0.340.104.0%2C5.11-11.4.0.0.1.1.0%3A20180226T183049Z> 
>>
> 
> Considered and rejected as nvidia's design doesn't allow multiple versions to be
> installed on the system at the same time to mediate between.

Also, IPS mediator support is limited to changing symlinks - it doesn't support
changing the /etc/driver_aliases entries needed when switching between versions
of the nvidia driver to reflect the different subsets of hardware devices they
support.

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