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

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] using Nvidia RTX 5060 with recent...:

> 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.

That confirms what I suspected when I started trying to interact with
2025.10.  I could see missing versions of userland-incorporation.

> 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.

Ah, good idea.  I've now

 	- reinstalled 2026.04 text install
 	- done the

 		pkg freeze osnet-incorporation

 	- installed and removed mate_install

 		pkg install mate_install
 		reboot
 		pkg uninstall mate_install

 	- installed nvidia-580

 		pkg uninstall xorg-video nvidia-470
 		pkg install nvidia-580
 		reboot

However, I am currently blocked from reinstalling xorg-video.  Every
time I try with nvidia-580 installed already, I get

Planning: Checking for conflicting actions ... Done (0.468s)
            Packages to install:  2
        Create boot environment: No
Create backup boot environment: No
           Rebuild boot archive: No

Changed packages:
openindiana.org
   driver/graphics/nvidia-470
     None -> 470.256.2-2024.0.0.0
   x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video
     None -> 1-2024.0.0.0

pkg install: The following packages all deliver driver actions to nvidia:

   pkg://openindiana.org/driver/graphics/nvidia-580@580.159.3,5.11-2026.0.0.0:20260429T164248Z
   pkg://openindiana.org/driver/graphics/nvidia-470@470.256.2,5.11-2024.0.0.0:20240605T164150Z

These packages cannot be installed together. Any non-conflicting subset
of the above packages can be installed.




and many additional conflicts.

When I run

 	pkg contents -m xorg-video

I see as the last line:

depend fmri=driver/graphics/nvidia-390 fmri=driver/graphics/nvidia-340 fmri=driver/graphics/nvidia-470 fmri=driver/graphics/nvidia type=require-any

It looks like the meta-packages/xorg-video/xorg-video.p5m
probably needs a few updates and xorg-video needs a component rebuild.  Do
you want *all* the missing nvidia-XXX options added and a pull request
submitted for that, or is it faster for you to just tackle it?

Since the unversioned (in the component name) fmri=driver/graphics/nvidia
*is* listed, the @595 driver would still be an option, but that's probably
my only option.

> If you are brave you might update to the osnet-incorporation of May 12th, 
> which is fine for my Z6.

Tomorrow I'll probably try the 595 drivers and updating just to an
osnet-incorporation version from approximately May 12th, since I'm blocked
on any of the nvidia-5XX drivers.

> 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.

Am I reading the commit incorrectly, or is it actually an update to
20260416 *from* 20251202?

Thanks for the suggestions and the pkg freeze idea.  I'll report back if
the nvidia at 595 drivers from the frozen install work, but right now I'm
not very hopeful.

Tim
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