[OpenIndiana-discuss] Video cards (or not)

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 3/9/25 um 12:25 schrieb theophile.dudreuilh--- via openindiana-discuss:
>   Thank you Andreas,
>
> I’m also writing this from a PC running OpenIndiana (Dell Precision 7520, i7-7920HQ, with Quadro P3000, previously using a P4000 on a Precision 7720), and it is definitely not the NVIDIA card that’s working—nothing I've tried makes it functional.
> Neither the NVIDIA P600 nor the P620 have ever worked with OpenIndiana on any machine I tested, from older HP Z440s to more recent setups, across all my tests.
> However, I've never encountered any issues with Solaris or FreeBSD.
>
> On OpenIndiana, it systematically fails for various reasons (memory mapping errors, unrecognized cards, firmware incompatibilities, etc.).
> So, thanks a lot for these valuable examples with the HP Z6 G4, Andreas!It would indeed be great if we had a reliable list of working setups with NVIDIA somewhere for OI.
>
>      Le dimanche 9 mars 2025 à 12:05:50 UTC+1, Andreas Wacknitz via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> a écrit :
>
>   Am 09.03.25 um 11:55 schrieb theophile.dudreuilh--- via openindiana-discuss:
>>    Hello,
>> I would like to contribute to this discussion by sharing my personal experience regarding the use of NVIDIA graphics cards on illumos distributions, specifically OpenIndiana and OmniOSce.
>>
>> Over the past three years, I have tested approximately twenty NVIDIA graphics cards that were supposedly compatible according to the NVIDIA Solaris drivers ported to OpenIndiana, as indicated in their documentation once installed. Unfortunately, none of these supposedly compatible cards have ever functioned, despite working perfectly under Solaris.
>> I would greatly appreciate it if someone could provide a concrete and VERIFIED example of at least ONE NVIDIA graphics card that genuinely works on illumos.
>> Based on all my attempts thus far, it appears clear that there is no genuine support for NVIDIA GPUs on illumos.
>> This conclusion aligns with feedback I've previously received from other developers several months ago.
>> Regarding the GT 1030 specifically, I also conducted thorough tests on three different motherboards (all officially compatible with this GPU) without any success.
>> Additionally, I should point out that the GT 1030 does not appear in the official driver lists currently available for OpenIndiana/Solaris.
>> To date, the only "modern" graphics solutions I've successfully operated on illumos have been the integrated graphics units from Intel processors (HD Graphics).
>> Therefore, if anyone in the community has genuinely managed to get an NVIDIA graphics card working (and not just the integrated Intel HD Graphics from the CPU), please speak up!

My HP Z6 (W-3235) is not my only system running OI. At the moment I have
another Z4G4 (W-2245) with the RTX 5000, and two older Fujitsu W530 with
Quadro P600 and P620 (both have Xeon E3-1245v3). The HP's have replaced
my Fujitsu W550 (E3-1245v5, Quadro P2200) and Dell Precision 3630
(E-2274G, RTX 2000).

All of them work perfectly fine on OI with driver version up to 470.
Newer driver versions, eg. 550, seem to have problems as firefox gets
really slow with them. BTW I am using my HP's as my secondary
workstations on a daily basis. My primary workstation is an Apple iMac
27" just because I need some software that is not supported by OI and
its monitor is superior to everything else I have (additionally I have a
nice Logitech mechanical keyboard that uses Bluetooth LE which is not
supported by illumos (only my previous Dell workstation was able to let
me use it under illumos for unknown reasons (probably because Dell's
BIOS was able to provide an emulation)).

Andreas


>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Théophile.
>> (majekla)
>>
>>        Le dimanche 9 mars 2025 à 10:53:56 UTC+1, Paul Floyd via openindiana-discuss<openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> a écrit :
>>
>>    Hi
> I am using NVIDIA Quadro P600, P620, RTX4000 (Turing), and RTX5000
> (Turing) in my workstations.
> In the past also had Quadro 600, K600 and K620, P2000, and P2200 (which
> have been replaced only because I got newer cards).
>
> So there must be something on your side that prevents the NVIDIA cards
> from working on OI.
>
> I have written this on my HP Z6G4 with an RTX 4000 with thunderbird 128.8.0.
>
>
> Andreas
>
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