[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fresh install of OpenIndiana - can not upgrade nvidia from nvidia-390 to nvidia-460

[Stephan Althaus]

On 03/23/21 11:12 AM, russell wrote:
> Hi
>
> My dual opteron motherboard finally died, so I had to build a new 
> workstation based on a Ryzen 5 5600X.
> Once the workstation was built, I started the Openindiana install, 
> downloading the 2020 October text based iso.
> Very happy with the installation, no problems there as I wanted to 
> create a mirrorred boot pair of SSDs.
> After completing the Openindiana install on the mirrored pair, I 
> performed a pkg refresh, then a pkg update creating a new BE.
> After completing the update and I performed pkg install mate_install 
> it worked fine, though I have noticed a couple of things.
>
> 1) when performing a pkg install/update the create plan can take a 
> very, very long time compared to the Dual Opteron 2435 workstation.
>      Things that took seconds or worse a few minutes can now take 
> hours...(literally being left over night)
>
> 2) When I attempted to replace the Nvidia-390 driver with the 
> Nvidia-460 driver, by removing the Nvidia-390 driver it has a 
> dependency on nvidia pkg, attempting to remove nvidia pkg results in a 
> warning that the mate install depends on pkg nvidia.
>
> How can upgrade to the Nvidia-460 driver?
>
> Regards
>
> Russell
>
>
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On 03/19/21 09:07 PM, John D Groenveld wrote:

> Try
> # beadm create nvidia-460
> # beadm mount nvidia-460 /tmp/nvidia-460
> # pkg -R /tmp/nvidia-460 uninstall xorg-video nvidia nvidia-390
> # pkg -R /tmp/nvidia-460 install nvidia-460
> # beadm activate nvidia-460
> # init 6
>
> John
> groenveld at acm.org
>
> _

Hello!

Thanks to John to point out this possibility of changing the nvidia 
driver version and avoid intermediate reboots.