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

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 26.05.26 um 07:39 schrieb Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss:
> 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
Using 2025.10 will not work; you'll need to use a 2026.04 install image 
because I have cleaned the repository after the release. So package 
versions installed and referenced by older installation images might be 
unavailable. 2026.04 should be fine, though. You only need to freeze the 
osnet-incorporation packge by
pfexec pkg freeze osnet-incorporation
This will make sure that you don't accidentially upgrade to a newer 
illumos-userland version.
If you are brave you might update to the osnet-incorporation of May 
12th, which is fine for my Z6.

I already have tried to isolate the problematic PR from illumos-gate but 
reverting neither
18103 ena: validate device-supplied register offsets and descriptor indices
nor
18108 libtopo reports the wrong errno on enumeration failure
fixed the situation for my Z6 and I don't know how to create a working 
patch for
18106 Update AMD microcode to 20251202
which is binary.

Regards,
Andreas