On Sunday, March 7, 2021, 8:58:54 PM GMT+2, Andreas Wacknitz <a.wackn...@gmx.de> wrote:
>No, that's definitely the wrong conclusion, because >- he is the only one seeing this problem at the moment >- and it is most likely a selfmade problem because he installed a >graphics card driver that is not officially distributed by OI No I have seen exactly the same problem on a freshly installed system. For some reason, I cannot install the system from the GUI media so I installed the system using the text installation media. Then I created a new BE and installed a newer version of the NVIDIA driver (the one that comes with the media does not work). Then I installed the package install_mate and then I tried to boot this new BE. But each time I try to boot the system, it reboots after trying to start mate-session/lightdm. So practically I have an unusable system. >How can we prevent from these kind of problems in the future? >He has installed a driver that is provided by NVIDIA for Solaris. It was >necessary because our official driver (from the same NVIDIA source) >is old and not suitable for modern NVIDIA graphics cards. Alas we don't >have a newer one. And that is mostly because we have too few >people involved in testing and maintaining packages. The majority >prefers to fiddle themselves or wait that somebody else will do what >they need. I understand that this a complex problem. Mainly because the driver works just fine on older machines. However in my case the problem was the following: [ 1231.908] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X [ 1231.908] (EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X [ 1231.908] (EE) NVIDIA(0): server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module. If [ 1231.908] (EE) NVIDIA(0): you continue to encounter problems, Please try [ 1231.908] (EE) NVIDIA(0): reinstalling the NVIDIA driver. [ 1231.908] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device! Perhaps something went wrong with the packaging of files. Can you check that indeed everything is OK? >We have at least one PR with a newer driver that nobody seem to care to >test. It is derived from older PR's that have been discussed and >stalled for quite some time. So, the provided alternative driver is also >already outdated. But that could be the base for more NVIDIA drivers >in the future if it will be tested and merged. But if nobody cares >enough to do that (or even work on a more sophisticated one) then the >situation won't change. Look I as using a GeForce GT 1030 and I am using NVIDIA Driver Version 415.18 with no problem. In general, I think you could "upgrade" to the 390 series. I can try to upgrade the driver in one of my old systems and see if the driver works. Regards, A.S. ---------------------- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss