[OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 5/7/24 12:15, Rainer Heilke wrote:
> I'm getting the feeling this isn't possible.  To wit:
> Xorg.0.log doesn't exist (which seems odd...)

That suggests nothing is even trying to run X11, which could be because it
wasn't installed, as Till suggested.

> dmesg shows:
> 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

That's the kernel, not Xorg, and it's normal for it to load the driver,
let the driver search for hardware it can support, and then unload when
it doesn't find any.

	-alan-