On 04/10/18 06:41 PM, Rasaki Temidire wrote:
Hello,
I have openindiana 2017.10 installed and updated it to the latest packages and
image but the NVIDIA driver version is 340.106 and every time I try to make an
window fullscreen, it goes across both screens. I have an NVIDIA GTX 590. I
can't find a way through the nvidia-settings program to get it to just make
fullscreen windows appear on one of the screens.
This problem doesn't exist with the version of the NVIDIA driver in FreeBSD 11.
So I downloaded the latest short branch version 387.34 directly from the
NVIDIA Solaris x64/x86 archive. When I installed it, it complained about a
requirement for SUNWgnomelibs but it installed anyhow. After I rebooted the
system, I noticed that Xorg was still loading the old 340.106 version from the
original oi install. Can someone tell me how I can force it to load the new
driver? I think the system is using the driver embedded in the kernel.
Is there already an advanced version of the NVIDIA 387.34 or newer prepackaged
in some repository for oi?
illumos is not Solaris and Solaris is not illumos, for quite some time now.
Proprietary drivers used to work (for selected subsets of Nvidia
hardware) yet it is only natural that they start to deverge more as
times goes. (and illumos/OI components change more).
Not that the task for suporting illumos that is not changing much in
driver requirements is hard for Nvidia, yet there needs to be some money
incentive for it. (Except only the incentive that comes from using
Nvidia cards)
So since drivers are from Nvidia it is Nvidia to be contacted for
support on illumos.
Best solution for an open platform is using Open drivers only and there
opennes of AMD graphics and it's drivers comes to mind. Yet one needs to
acquire much kernel-side and driver-side contributors to make it alive
and running.
Course of action could be:
- listing what Nvidia proprietary driver works with what Nvidia card
under illumos could be benefitial, say, in an article on Wiki that could
be easily written and changed, unlike other ways.
See:
https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Nvidia+Graphics
- Porting open AMD drivers to illumos and kernel work needed for it is
an job for the engineers and it needs to be funded and supported,
so some fund creation for it and other costs for the project comes in mind.
The problem I see is that OI itself suffers for the lack of community
freedom , strangled to one or two and secretive third mailing list and
operational rules that also kill initiative.
Forced not to form any meaningful broader community or initiative, but
to be cut to the shorter and shorter contributors list, and that does
not benefit OI nor broader community.
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