[OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated NVIDIA drivers

[Stephan Althaus]

On 03/15/21 09:22 AM, Predrag Zecevic wrote:
> On 12.03.2021 21:27, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As some may already have noticed we have added newer NVIDIA drivers
>> (driver/graphics/nvidia-390 and driver/graphics/nvidia-460) recently
>> which should support newer graphic card models from NVIDIA. Nvidia-390
>> is now our default driver and will automatically be installed after a
>> pkg update. If you have an older graphics card, like eg. NV295, you will
>> need to downgrade to nvidia-340 after the next update. Additionally, we
>> have now the latest nvidia-460 driver which is 64-bit only. The process
>> of switching between driver versions is a little bit cumbersome still,
>> eg. if you want to switch to one of the other driver versions (340 in
>> the following example) you'll have to:
>>
>> 1. pfexec uninstall nvidia nvidia-390 xorg-video  (this creates
>> automatically a new BE)
>> 2. pfexec reboot  (reboot into the newly created BE)
>> 3. pfexec install nvidia-340  (it is likely that you need to reboot 
>> again)
>>
>> The procedure to switch to the latest version is quite similar to the
>> aforementioned steps.
>>
>> I would like to thank Stephan Althaus who has done most of the tests,
>> fixed little things and contributed the latest driver.
>> As the next OI Hipster release is scheduled for end of April we don't
>> provide new boot images yet.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andreas
>>
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Many thanks for (both) work and info!
>
> Is there any documentation regarding these steps available?
>
> Also, at least for me, would be interesting to have docs how to get 
> rid of manually installed NVIDIA packages (from 
> https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/solaris-display-archive/, I 
> had to use to get my desktop system working)?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> With best regards.
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Hi!


To remove the NVIDIA drivers that are not shipped with OI but come from 
their website:

*$ *pkginfo|grep NVDA
system      NVDAgraphics              NVIDIA Graphics System Software
system      NVDAgraphicsr             NVIDIA Graphics System Device Driver


with the root role

*# *pkgrm NVDAgraphics NVDAgraphicsr


*# pkg install xorg-video nvidia-NNN
*


Greetings,

Stephan