Yes - it's too bad; actually the GEForce 220 worked fine when I tried
Solaris 10 but I just couldn't get the internet to work with the rge0
driver (which is OK with OSOL, OI) in my machine . It's pretty obvious
that hardware for consumer PCs is very strongly directed at Windows (why
wouldn't they ?); if it works for anything else that's a bonus. The
alternative seems to be the way that was once the only way - hardware
and OS from the same manufacturer, and priced accordingly (look at Apple
Mac)
Regards
Guy
On 02/10/11 10:25 AM, Edward Martinez wrote:
On 02/10/11 00:57, Guy Woolley wrote:
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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Thanks Guy,
I guess, i will have to swap cards between my home systems.
it appears it will be tougher to buy hardware for solaris then
linux; not so long ago, i build an amd dual core and opensolaris
2009, osol_snv134, solaris 10, will not install because of a cpu bug.
However Oracle linux, and other linux distros run great on it.
now it appears a bug in the solaris kernel is causing problems with
these video cards.(geforce GT 220)
i would be bet Oracle does not give a hoot how solaris runs on my
computer as long it runs great on SUN units.
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