[OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

Till Wegmueller toasterson at gmail.com
Tue May 7 19:48:50 UTC 2024 

Hi, Rainer

 From which ISO/USB image did you install? If you have installed from 
the text versions you have not installed any Xorg or gui at all. You 
will need to install mate_install package with pkg.

-Till

On 07.05.2024 21:15, Rainer Heilke wrote:
> 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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