Ken,
Have you seen this bug report ?
https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=15751
I haven't tried the 256.44 driver but my GEForce 220 certainly hasn't
worked on OI (or earlier Opensolaris)
with earlier Nvidia drivers for it - John Martin's Comments seem to
suggest that neither Oracle nor Nvidia are very interested in a problem
in a fairly cheap consumer graphics card that works fine with popular OS
(it works fine for me under WinXP - I have a dual boot PC). I expect Ken
Mays knows better than I about the current situation.
Best of luck
Guy
On 02/10/11 07:30 AM, Edward Martinez wrote:
On 02/09/11 21:52, Ken Gunderson wrote:
Hello People:
I need a new graphics card for an older system (PCIE-1.0). I don't game,
do graphics, rendering, etc. so don't need high end - just a good
workstation unit that supports OpenGL, good color accuracy, and draws
square squares :) Occasional DVD's are probably about the most GPU
intensive use the system sees. Noisy fans and failed fan bearings are a
drag, so passive cooling is a plus, but not always a must as long as the
card doesn't make the box sound like a hovercraft.
So I thought I'd consult that newly created HCL wiki and was pleased to
note the Quadro 600 is "officially supported". The Quadro 600's price
point is attractive but otherwise I don't know much about it, as it's
relatively new unit. So I've a question for Mr. Mays; is the 600 your
daily driver, and if so, how do you like it?.
Also, the nVidia 256.44 driver's support many, many cards, yet only 4
models are listed. I'm curios why this might be? Shouldn't pretty much
any of the cards supported by those drivers work? Or is this list just
a sample of stuff that's actually been tested by the OI community?
I'm not very familiar with nVidia's line and welcome suggestions.
Thanks bunches.
Hello,
I just order an nvidia Geforce GT 220 to use with OI, the onboard
video is to weak for me, and it's listed on nvidia 's 256,44 driver
supported
list. I will let you know if it works soon:-)
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5296653&SRCCODE=WEBLET03ORDER&;
cm_mmc=Email-_-WebletMain-_-WEBLET03ORDER-_-Deals
http://www.nvidia.com/object/solaris-display-256.44-driver.html
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