[OpenIndiana-discuss] using Nvidia RTX 5060 with recent OI

[Stephan Althaus]

On 5/26/26 07:39, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] using Nvidia RTX 5060 with 
> recent...:
>
>> Your Mail made me checking on my HP Z4 G4 and Z6 G4 workstations with 
>> NVIDIA graphics cards.
>> My Z4 G4 has an RTX 5000 Turing generation (so 3 generations older 
>> than your RTX 5060) while
>> my Z6 G4 has an RTX 4000 Turing. Both machines have our default 470 
>> NVIDIA driver installed.
>>
>> While my Z4 G4 still works fine with the latest illumos-gate:
>> ╰─➤  uname -a
>> SunOS goliath 5.11 illumos-08292a06bd i86pc i386 i86pc
>>
>> my Z6 G4 starts to have problems with X11 starting with
>> ╰─➤  uname -a
>> SunOS colossus 5.11 illumos-f2934b008e i86pc i386 i86pc
>> from May 19th, 2026.
>>
>> The last working boot environment is
>> ╰─➤  uname -a
>> SunOS colossus 5.11 illumos-5425aa59e8 i86pc i386 i86pc
>> from May 14th, 2026.
>>
>>
>> So I suspect one of the illumos-gate changes to be problematic for 
>> this machine:
>
> Thanks for the response Andreas, I appreciate it.
>
> So it sounds like at least the Nvidia GPU issue I'm running into may
> be a recent problem that will likely require some debugging with the
> Illumos folks.
>
> The problem for me is that I'm trying to answer the question "will this
> specific Dell hardware configuration my coworkers ordered work well for
> OI for me", and it's a bit time-sensitive because my workplace's fiscal
> end of year is coming up soon.  If I'm going to be able to order another
> copy of this hardware for my use, I need to figure out all of the
> unsupported hardware and decide how critical each item is for my 
> purposes.
>
> I know an older version of the Live media won't work for testing, because
> it uses older nvidia drivers that don't support this card.
>
> Tonight I tried the 2025.10 text installer, but I was completely stymied
> trying to install nvidia drivers or convert it from text to workstation
> via mate_install.
>
> I understand hipster's rolling release model and why that's really the
> only option with our number of contributors.  For testing, though, I
> thought I would be able to do something like:
>
>     install from text_install 2025.10
>     pkg list | grep userland-incorp
>
> to get the version of userland-incorporation for the 2025.10 install 
> (it was
> 0.5.11-2025.0.0.31598), and then
>
>     pkg contents -m userland-incorporation | egrep nvidia
>
> and then install the exact version of the nvidia (580) drivers that
> the current userland-incorporation has as a version lock:
>
> depend facet.version-lock.driver/graphics/nvidia=true 
> fmri=driver/graphics/nvidia at 580.95.5-2025.0.0.0 type=incorporate
>
> However, that was still blocked.
>
> I eventually tried removing userland-incorporation (and entire), but I
> still wasn't able to make any progress getting a recent driver installed
> without doing a full update.
>
> Unless someone has some idea for how to convert a pre-2026.04 text 
> install
> to the 580 drivers, it looks like I'm blocked for now.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim

Hello!

The recommended way is to pkg update the system first.

In the past i installed the Solaris driver from nvidia, but that was 
years ago...

https://download.nvidia.com/solaris/580.159.04/

This is a shell snipplet to get the idea:

pfexec beadm list
pfexec beadm create oi-nvidia-$1
pfexec beadm mount oi-nvidia-$1 /mnt
pfexec pkg -R /mnt uninstall -r driver/graphics/nvidia
pfexec /bin/sh NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-580.159.04.run --extract-only
cd NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-580.159.04
pfexec pkgadd -R /mnt -d . NVDAgraphics NVDAgraphicsr
pfexec bootadm update-archive -R /mnt
pfexec beadm unmount -f oi-nvidia-$1
pfexec beadm activate oi-nvidia-$1
pfexec reboot -p

No guarantees for shure, its highly experimental.

Regards,

Stephan