[OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

[Udo Grabowski (IMKASF)]

On 03-02-2025 18:42, Rolf M. Dietze wrote:
> Hi,
> this thread is actually very welcome to me.
> 
> I had 2 issues that refrained me from using OI as a regular
> desktop system, that was the rather old firefox, but as far
> as I know, Carsten Grzemba made this problem vanish, thanks
> for that, it was a key issue. And a lot of driver problems
> with older Nvidia boards, sorry we are still on old hardware
> here:)
 > ...

Firefox and Thunderbird are up to date (but you won't be too happy
with older gear as firefox is now a memory hog). For the NVIDIA cards,
there's a palette of old and new drivers that should cover all existing
cards:

driver/graphics/nvidia-340     340.108-2022.0.0.1
driver/graphics/nvidia-390     390.157-2022.0.0.0
driver/graphics/nvidia-470     470.256.2-2024.0.0.0
driver/graphics/nvidia-535     535.183.1-2024.0.0.0

You just have to use the text-installer and switch to the
appropriate driver on the actual installation before booting
the first time. Here we use each of those drivers ...
the nvidia drivers may should get a mediator to simplify this process.


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