[OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

[Till Wegmueller]

The nvidia thing is an interesting mention I wonder how much libglvnd 
will improve that situation with versions. It helps a lot with different 
vendors and would replace ogl-select

-Till

On 03.02.25 18:53, Udo Grabowski (IMKASF) wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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