Jürgen Keil wrote:
> Antonello Cruz wrote:
>> Jürgen Keil wrote:
>>> Which 177.80 nvidia driver? The one included with OpenSolaris?
>>> Or the one download from nvidia's website?
>> It fails with both, the driver included with OpenSolaris and with the 
>> driver from the nvidia's website. Both are version 177.80 for Solaris
> 
> As far as I know, they are different.
I am not saying they are the same, I am saying they exhibit the same 
behavior regarding fast reboot.

> 
> Sun's version has MSI support, quiesce support,
> I think better xVM support, ... 
> 
> The link to the latest Sun version of 177.80 
> (NVDAgraphicsr package version is VERSION=177.80,
> REV=2008.11.05.10.16) can be found in this thread:
> 
>     http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=81020&tstart=0
Thanks, it seems I have an outdated version (REV=2008.10.24.13.17).

> 
>>> And how does it fail?
>> It drops to regular *slow* reboot.
> 
> Hmm, in about 30% of the fast reboots I get a warning
> that the kernel is unable to allocate 64kbytes of contiguous
> memory (needed for page tables?) and falls back to a
> regular boot.
I've never seen this, but I have 4GB of RAM...

> 
> I suspect you are using "force_fastreboot = 1" ?
Yes, actually I have to 'reboot -f'


> There are still problems with MSI interrupts with the 101
> version, esp. with GeForce 6150 GPUs.  See the thread
> I mentioned above. The REV=2008.11.05.10.16
> nvidia module is supposed to fix them...
I installed this driver (the link is missing the '.run') and now I don't 
see the text banner when I am booting up. Is this a regression?

Antonello
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