[OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia driver causes immediate kernel panic with NVS 510

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 01.05.22 um 18:24 schrieb James Madgwick:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with Nvidia. I don't think there's much that can be
> done about it, but I thought it would be worth mentioning in case
> anyone else has experienced this before and in case anyone is looking
> for a workaround in future.
>
> I did a fresh installation of 2021.10 on an Z77 system which has an
> Nvidia Quadro NVS 510 GPU. I initially tried the GUI version but fell
> back to the text version because the GUI rebooted straight after the
> language selection (this was the panic).
>
> After installation, I realised the problem was with the Nvidia driver.
> A few seconds after X is launched, there's a kernel panic. It gets as
> far as a showing a white square in the top left of the screen.
> Xorg.0.log is empty. The version of the Nvidia driver installed by
> default apparently support this GPU (Kepler).
>
> I worked around the issue by creating an xorg.conf which specifies the
> 'vesa' driver and not 'nvidia' (as used by default). This works and
> MATE starts and works as expected (although with 800x600) - the problem
> seems to be with the nvidia module.
>
> I imagine the way forward would be to report the problem to Nvidia
> seeing as the driver is closed source. I doubt they would be interested
> though due to the age of this GPU (Kepler consumer GeForce is now
> unsupported).
>
> James Madgwick
>
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Maybe https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/solaris-display-archive/
will help you.
Looking at what we have now as alternative NVIDIA drivers, both -460 and
-470 should support your graphics card.
You may want to experiment with the alternatives. There is some
documentation on how to switch to a different NVIDIA driver on OI.

Andreas