[OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver
Rainer Heilke
rheilke at dragonhearth.com
Tue May 7 19:15:13 UTC 2024
I'm getting the feeling this isn't possible. To wit:
Xorg.0.log doesn't exist (which seems odd...)
.
dmesg shows:
May 7 04:22:25 omar pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device:
lockstat0
May 7 04:22:25 omar genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] lockstat0 is
/pseudo/lockstat at 0
May 7 04:22:25 omar pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: lofi0
May 7 04:22:25 omar genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] lofi0 is
/pseudo/lofi at 0
May 7 04:22:25 omar pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device:
nvidia255
May 7 04:22:25 omar genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] nvidia255 is
/pseudo/nvidia at 255
May 7 04:22:25 omar nvidia_modeset: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Loading
NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 470.239.06 Sat
Feb 3 05:55:09 UTC 2024
May 7 04:22:25 omar pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device:
profile0
May 7 04:22:25 omar genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] profile0 is
/pseudo/profile at 0
Watching it boot, it loads the NVidia and nvidia_modeset drivers, and
then unloads them again.
root at omar:~# dmesg | grep -i load
May 7 04:20:53 omar nvidia_modeset: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Loading
NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 470.239.06 Sat
Feb 3 05:55:09 UTC 2024
May 7 04:20:56 omar nvidia_modeset: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Unloading
root at omar:~# find / -name intel\* -print
/kernel/drv/intel_nhm.conf
/kernel/drv/amd64/intel_nhm
/kernel/drv/amd64/intel_nhmex
/kernel/drv/amd64/intel_nb5000
/kernel/drv/intel_nhmex.conf
/kernel/drv/intel_nb5000.conf
find: stat() error /proc/181/lwp/10: No such file or directory
find: stat() error /proc/561/lwp/24: No such file or directory
/platform/i86pc/amd64/archive_cache/kernel/drv/intel_nhm.conf
/platform/i86pc/amd64/archive_cache/kernel/drv/amd64/intel_nb5000
/platform/i86pc/amd64/archive_cache/kernel/drv/amd64/intel_nhm
/platform/i86pc/amd64/archive_cache/kernel/drv/amd64/intel_nhmex
/platform/i86pc/amd64/archive_cache/kernel/drv/intel_nb5000.conf
/platform/i86pc/amd64/archive_cache/kernel/drv/intel_nhmex.conf
/usr/include/drm/intel_bufmgr.h
/usr/include/drm/intel_aub.h
/usr/include/drm/intel_debug.h
/usr/platform/i86pc/lib/fm/eft/intel.eft
/usr/share/vim/vim91/compiler/intel.vim
root at omar:~# find / -name nvidia\* -print
/dev/nvidia-modeset
/dev/nvidia0
/dev/nvidia1
/dev/nvidia10
/dev/nvidia11
/dev/nvidia12
/dev/nvidia13
/dev/nvidia14
/dev/nvidia15
/dev/nvidia2
/dev/nvidia3
/dev/nvidia4
/dev/nvidia5
/dev/nvidia6
/dev/nvidia7
/dev/nvidia8
/dev/nvidia9
/dev/nvidiactl
/kernel/drv/amd64/nvidia_modeset
/kernel/drv/amd64/nvidia
/kernel/drv/nvidia_modeset.conf
/kernel/drv/nvidia.conf
/system/object/nvidia
/system/object/nvidia_modeset
find: stat() error /proc/181/lwp/10: No such file or directory
find: stat() error /proc/561/lwp/24: No such file or directory
/lib/opengl/ogl_select/nvidia_vendor_select
/platform/i86pc/amd64/archive_cache/kernel/drv/amd64/nvidia_modeset
/platform/i86pc/amd64/archive_cache/kernel/drv/amd64/nvidia
/platform/i86pc/amd64/archive_cache/kernel/drv/nvidia_modeset.conf
/platform/i86pc/amd64/archive_cache/kernel/drv/nvidia.conf
/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/nvidia-settings.m.bm
/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/nvidia-settings.l.bm
/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/nvidia-settings.t.pm
/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/nvidia-settings.l_m.bm
/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/nvidia-settings.m_m.bm
/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/nvidia-settings.m.pm
/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/nvidia-settings.l.pm
/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/nvidia-settings.t_m.bm
/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/nvidia-settings.t.bm
/usr/dt/appconfig/types/C/nvidia-settings.dt
/usr/dt/appconfig/appmanager/C/Desktop_Apps/nvidia-settings
/usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/amd64/nvidia_drv.so
/usr/bin/amd64/nvidia-smi
/usr/bin/amd64/nvidia-debugdump
/usr/bin/amd64/nvidia-settings
/usr/bin/amd64/nvidia-xconfig
/usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig
/usr/bin/nvidia-settings
/usr/bin/nvidia-SunOS-bug-report.sh
/usr/share/nvidia
/usr/share/nvidia/nvidia-application-profiles-key-documentation
/usr/share/nvidia/nvidia-application-profiles-rc
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA/html/nvidiasettings.html
/usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop
/usr/share/man/man1/nvidia-settings.1
/usr/share/man/man1/nvidia-xconfig.1
/usr/share/man/man1/nvidia-smi.1
/usr/share/icons/NVIDIA/nvidia-settings.png
/usr/share/control-center-2.0/capplets/nvidia-settings.s10.desktop
/devices/pseudo/nvidia at 255
/devices/pseudo/nvidia at 255:nvidiactl
/devices/pseudo/nvidia_modeset at 0
/devices/pseudo/nvidia_modeset at 0:ctl
root at omar:~#
So, I would need to somehow tell the installer to ignore what it thinks
the video card is, and create the OS with Intel devices/drivers/etc.
To answer your question, this Gigabyte Brix is about 6 years old.
I'm finding the lack of the Xorg log and the fact that it ignores the
file I created at Alan's suggestion to be odd and disturbing. This was
normal under FreeBSD.
Rainer
------ Original Message ------
>From "Alan Coopersmith" <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
To "Rainer Heilke" <rheilke at dragonhearth.com>; "Discussion list for
OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
Date 2024-05-07 10:55:02 AM
Subject Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver
>/var/log/Xorg.0.log should have information on what config files the X server
>read, what devices it actually found, and what decisions it made on which
>driver to use for them.
>
>It would have to be a very old motherboard to have an Intel graphics chip
>that's not part of an Intel CPU - they merged them into a single unit years
>ago. But X won't assume an nvidia card based on the CPU, only on the PCI
>device ids it finds that match nvidia's vendor id.
>
> -alan-
>
>On 5/6/24 18:59, Rainer Heilke wrote:
>>Hi.
>>xrandr called it an Intel graphics card. The intel_drv.so driver worked solidly under FreeBSD. I think X keeps thinking it's an NVidia card because it's an AMD CPU. But Gigabyte seems to have used an intel chip on the motherboard. The NVideo driver hasn't worked under any flavour of Unix/Linux I've tried.
>>Rainer
>>
>>
>>------ Original Message ------
>> From "Rainer Heilke" <rheilke at dragonhearth.com>
>>To "Alan Coopersmith" <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>; "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
>>Date 2024-05-06 6:29:09 PM
>>Subject Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver
>>
>>>------ Original Message ------
>>>From "Alan Coopersmith" <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
>>>To "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>; "Rainer Heilke" <rheilke at dragonhearth.com>
>>>Date 2024-05-06 6:17:15 PM
>>>Subject Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver
>>>
>>>>On 5/6/24 18:10, Rainer Heilke wrote:
>>>>>Greetings.
>>>>>Which file is Hipster using to define the video driver to use? X is trying to use the NVidia driver, which fails. Under FreeBSD, the Intel driver worked, so I'm hoping it will here as well. But none of the files I've found that mention the NVidia driver seem to actually be an Xorg config file.
>>>>
>>>>Like Xorg on all other platforms, it will use /etc/X11/xorg.conf if it exists,
>>>>or config snippets in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ but the default configuration
>>>>doesn't use a config file, but lets Xorg check for available video devices
>>>>and uses its internal mapping of PCI vendor ids to drivers to decide which
>>>>drivers to use for those.
>>>>
>>>>-- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>>>> Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris
>>>>
>>>Hi.
>>>That make sense, thanks. It also explains why I can't find a config file to edit.
>>>So, is there an "official" way to override the driver X is using? Do I need to hack together a config file to do this?
>>>Thanks again,
>>>Rainer
>>>
>>>>
>>>
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>
>-- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
> Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris
>
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