[OpenIndiana-discuss] Video cards (or not)

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Nvidia geforce gtx 1060 is always a fall back option for me

On Sun, 9 Mar 2025, 12:02 Andreas Wacknitz via openindiana-discuss, <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

>
> 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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