[OpenIndiana-discuss] resolved - sort of, now a reproduce-able bug was Re: A KVM switch broke my server?! Lightdm is panic'ing the kernel

[Carl Brewer]

On 7/09/2021 1:25 am, stes at PANDORA.BE wrote:
> It's good news that you solved the problem.
>
> Can you please submit the hardware components to the HCL (OpenIndiana Hardware Compatibility List) ?


The GUI DDU doesn't work, it doesn't submit the list, and I'm not sure 
what format to send what it should send, to Aurelian.

If you know what commands I need to run from the shell to generate the 
right output, I would love to do it.


>
> Perhaps also with some BIOS info in the "Notes and/or specific usage instructions";
> there are several systems and components with specific BIOS suggestions/hints ...
>
> In my case with the i3-10100 and Dell BIOS, when I press F12 to go into the "One-time boot menu" and BIOS setup,
> there is a Settings -> Video and it has two menus :
>
>     1) Multi-Display
>     2) Primary Display
>
> Under 2) Primary Display there is a choice
>
>     1) Auto
>     2) Intel HD
>     3) NVIDIA HD
>
> That selects the video card for the BIOS although it seems that both cards are always presented to the OpenIndiana OS.
>
> As far as I understand your case (without integrated graphics),
> you always had a possibility to see the BIOS settings on your NVIDIA card,


yes, and as much poking around as I did, there did not seem to be 
anything in the BIOS that let me change any graphics settings.


> it was only the X11/lightdm at the OpenIndiana level that had an issue.
yes
>
> In other words, the BIOS was always sort of using the NVIDIA card as its "primary display".

yes


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