On September 17, 2017 5:38:06 PM GMT+02:00, "Jean-Pierre André" <jean-pierre.an...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: >Gary Mills wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 09:24:26AM +0200, Jean-Pierre André wrote: >>> Yesterday I upgraded a Hipster installation from April 2016 >>> to the latest state (by starting a pkg update). >>> >>> I apparently could not boot beyond the single user mode, but >>> the real reason appears to lie in a change in the video driver >>> ABI. >> >> I had a similar problem, and have partially solved it. I had an AMD >> Athlon system with an NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE video card. It was >> running OI Hipster installed from the 20160421 ISO. I had installed >> NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.132 to get it to recognize the video card. >> When I upgraded to the current Hipster in a new BE, the BE failed to >> boot. >> >> I couldn't find a way to uninstall the Nvidia software I had >> installed, but I was able to boot an old BE that I made before I >> installed the software. It was using the VESA driver for that video >> card, but otherwise everything ran normally. > >Uninstalling the driver should be straightforward : >the install script first only does a "pkgrm" to remove >the former version (before doing a "pkgadd" to install >the requested one). > >> >> Then I replaced the video card with a new low-end one that seemed >> current. It was an Nvidia card with a GT730 GPU. The cost was less >> than $100. Hipster recognized that card. It described my monitor >> correctly and set the resolution to the monitor's default. The >Nvidia >> X Server Settings GUI worked. >> >> That system is still running Hipster from 2016, but I'm ready to try >> the upgrade again. > >So you are also back to square one. I took a simpler >approach by restoring the whole system from a backup. >My understanding is that irreversible changes have been >made somewhere (dead symlinks have been found, so some >newly required feature is probably not available in older >drivers). > >And I have to give up upgrading. > > > >_______________________________________________ >oi-dev mailing list >oi-dev@openindiana.org >https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
Note there's https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/3458 brewing, to provide a couple of other nvidia versions (they all support different sets of cards). At least, once it's merged, it should be safer to upgrade ;) Feel free to checkout the branch and build your own packages and install them from local preferred repo - should work too. Jim -- Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Android _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
