Yep...I can confirm this as I have one of the HP branded Quadro's from this machine myself
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 03:04, John Martin <John.M.Martin at sun.com> wrote: > Glenn Lagasse wrote: > >> As for dropping to console login, that indicates that either we don't >> support the graphics card you have (we support NVIDIA, but not older >> NVIDIA chipsets) or it's just more image corruption holding you up. >> >> >> > That's not the expected behavior. > > If the bundled nvidia driver does not support the card installed, whether > it is > too old or too new, installation should still proceed in graphical mode > using > the nv or vesa driver. > > For the HP xw4600, the bundled nvidia driver supports all the NVIDIA > graphics cards listed at the HP U.S. web page. Note: all the cards shown > on the HP web page are from the Quadro family, not GeForce as Kevin > mentioned in his posting. If there is a GeForce card in this system, it > may > not be the original card. Regardless, support for GPUs as far back as 2000 > are supported by the legacy nvidia drivers (R96 and R173). > > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20090909/8904b7da/attachment.html>
