Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Alfred: specific questions about the nvidia driver and device compatibility are better addressed to xwin-discuss, so they'll be seen by John, who is both our nvidia expert and our engineering contact to nvidia.-alan- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [indiana-discuss] nVidia driver problem with b117 Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:19:31 +0800 From: Alfred Peng <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Hi, Just installed b117 (118 doesn't work similar with http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6858297) on HP dv4 laptop with nVidia G 105M graphics card.
A device alias for this G 105M is not installed by the 185.18.14 driver delivered to b117 and up through the 190.18 beta driver. Looking at the NVIDIA download page, the GPU is listed but a driver only shows up when searching for Windows, but neither Solaris nor Linux. I will get this fixed. In the meantime since the download site shows Windows support for the R185 driver you should be able to do: $ pfexec update_drv -a -i '"pci10de,6ec"' nvidia $ pfexec reboot -p I have a query into the NVIDIA for official word on support by the Solaris (and Linux) drivers.
>From DDU, it seems that the system nVidia driver doesn't work with the graphics card and "vgatext" is used: node name: display Vendor: nVidia Corporation Device: G98 [G 105M] binding name: pciclass,030000 devfs path: /p...@0,0/pci8086,2...@1/disp...@0 compatible name: (pciex10de,6ec.103c.30f7.a1)(pciex10de,6ec.103c.30f7)(pciex10de,6ec.a1)(pciex10de,6ec)(pciexclass,030000)(pciexclass,0300)(pci10de,6ec.103c.30f7.a1)(pci10de,6ec.103c.30f7)(pci10de,6ec.a1)(pci10de,6ec)(pciclass,030000)(pciclass,0300) driver name: vgatext instance: 0 driver state: Attached ddi-no-autodetach: 1 fm-errcb-capable: TRUE fm-ereport-capable: TRUE acpi-namespace: _SB_.PCI0.PVGA.EVGA video-adapter-type: svga display-type: color assigned-addresses: 82010010 reg: 10000 compatible: pciex10de,6ec.103c.30f7.a1 model: VGA compatible controller power-consumption: 1 devsel-speed: 0 interrupts: 1 subsystem-vendor-id: 103c subsystem-id: 30f7 device_type: display unit-address: 0 class-code: 30000 revision-id: a1 vendor-id: 10de device-id: 6ec scanpci shows no luck: pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x06ec nVidia Corporation Device unknown Also tried nvidia-xconfig to generate the xorg.conf and specified "nvidia" as the driver. X can't start with the error message similar with http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6822628. Tried the workaround: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2009-April/002126.html and X still doesn't work. Attached are the Xorg.0.log and also the prtdiag output. Is there an updated nVidia driver that I should take? Thanks, -Alfred
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