So far as I know, none of the issues I raised have been fixed. Nor did any of
the proffered "help" actually solve anything. I abandoned 2020.10 as hopeless
and quit posting. I am certain I could make it work, but I don't really see
much point. It seems far more likely I should simply exchange one set of
problems for another were I to install it.
I have offered, yet again, to help fix things. Not a big fix, but a fix. If
that goes satisfactorily I'll increase my participation. It entirely depends
upon whether the developers respond or not.
I have proposed to write a script that will read the vendor and device numbers
and do a table look up to select the correct nVidia driver at install time.
Very simple semantics. It will return the current nVidia driver identifier for
that hardware and I'll update it at each release.
I spent 60 hours testing a release of SU (Seismic Unix) on multiple platforms.
I sent a well tested package to the official maintainer. He did not use it and
instead posted a release that would not compile on *any* system. At that point
I simply quit providing any support after some 10 years of work.
I want a public commitment that if I write the proposed script OI can and will
use it. And that gparted will either be fixed or removed from the distribution.
If OI is not going to be a quality product I'm not interested in being involved.
Reg
On Friday, March 12, 2021, 04:15:05 PM CST, Aurélien Larcher
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:40 PM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know why I should expect anything different given that gparted
> dumps core in 2020.10 and doesn't recognize a Windows 7 Pro and Debian 9.3
> installation on a 2 TB disk in 2017.10.
>
> Still not detecting the card and installing the correct driver seems
> rather lame.
>
Nice way to thank someone who just spent a few evenings trying to help you.
>
> "scanpci -v" produces this for the graphics card in my Z400:
>
> pci bus 0x000f cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x0638
> NVIDIA Corporation G94GL [Quadro FX 1800]
> CardVendor 0x10de card 0x062c (NVIDIA Corporation, Card unknown)
> STATUS 0x0010 COMMAND 0x0047
> CLASS 0x03 0x00 0x00 REVISION 0xa1
> BIST 0x00 HEADER 0x00 LATENCY 0x00 CACHE 0x00
> BASE0 0xf6000000 SIZE 16777216 MEM
> BASE1 0x00000000e0000000 SIZE 268435456 MEM64 PREFETCHABLE
> BASE3 0x00000000f4000000 SIZE 33554432 MEM64
> BASE5 0x0000e000 SIZE 128 I/O
> MAX_LAT 0x00 MIN_GNT 0x00 INT_PIN 0x01 INT_LINE 0x03
>
> I don't see a lot of difficulty to writing a shell script that takes the
> output of scanpci and spits out the appropriate nVidia driver number. If
> the install system is sane enough that such a solution will work, I'll
> write and maintain it.
>
> I am proposing:
>
> GRAPHIC_DRIVER=`/sbin/ `
>
> If that is not a viable solution for some reason, then I'm not likely to
> keep using OI. I've repeatedly volunteered to help over the last 8-10
> years. I've never ever received useful replies. In most cases, not even a
> useless reply. Mostly I just see whining about the limited number of people
> providing support.
>
> I estimate that "nvidia_driver_to_use" would take 3-4 hours to write. Wall
> time longer if I need to contact nVidia for device and driver mappings. If
> you demand that I spend 2-3 days analyzing the horribly borked install
> process, it's just not going to happen.
>
> I might do that, but only if I get replies.
>
> Reg
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