[OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

Rainer Heilke rheilke at dragonhearth.com
Tue May 7 19:56:28 UTC 2024 

I used the GUI disk, but now that you ask, it dropped down to text-only 
as well, and so I think maybe it only ran what the text installer would 
have done.
  The lights are coming on... NOW things are making more sense!
Rainer


------ Original Message ------
>From "Till Wegmueller" <toasterson at gmail.com>
To openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
Date 2024-05-07 12:48:50 PM
Subject Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

>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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