On 03/14/21 07:45 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
Am 14.03.21 um 19:31 schrieb Jim Klimov:
On March 14, 2021 4:33:03 PM UTC, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote:
On 3/13/21 4:32 PM, John D Groenveld wrote:
In message <d3964437-8497-64ca-13ab-c059aa735...@oracle.com>, Alan
Coopersmith writes:
There is no way to script this inside IPS packages - instead your
script
would have to be outside the packaging system and run pkg commands
to
install/uninstall the packages as neto.
Did Oracle consider using a mediator to set the system's nVidia
version
branch?

<URL:http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/manifest/0/driver%2Fgraphics%2FnvidiaR304@0.304.137.0%2C5.11-11.4.0.0.1.1.0%3A20180226T183047Z> <URL:http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/manifest/0/driver%2Fgraphics%2FnvidiaR340@0.340.104.0%2C5.11-11.4.0.0.1.1.0%3A20180226T183049Z>

Considered and rejected as nvidia's design doesn't allow multiple
versions to be
installed on the system at the same time to mediate between.

    -alan-

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I had a PR for OI that I think silently withered that used an approach similar to opengl-selector to make a web of symlinks to libs and kernel modules based on choice as configured by the user (or possibly PCI IDs?), to pick one of nvidia-XXX implementations installed into predictably named different subdirectories.

So technically such magic seems possible.

Unfortunately, the laptops I had were all with intel+nvidia "optimus" setup, so I never had a chance to test it myself and not sure anyone did for the PR. Another reason it could have withered was that OI was stuck delivering some (varied over time) driver version as a "nvidia" verbatim named package.

Oh well, at least it seems from recent posts that now OI serves not a single "nvidia" package, but indeed a few"nvidia-XXX"'es for users to pick one to install, so my shim has a chance again :)

My 2c,
Jim
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Hi Jim,

yes, I hope that we can improve the momentary situation. The creation of
the simplified variant was intended to cut the knots and create some
progress.
You are more than welcome to help us getting better with NVIDIA drivers.
Maybe you find some time to rebase your work on the actual situation.
I will try to find testers, I swear :)

Best regards,
Andreas

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Hi!

The mentioned PR was propably #3673

https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/3673

The part of installing the files of each driver version to  to subdirectories is simple, i have to read a bit if i want to understand the idea of how the linking-in of the active driver actually works...

Stephan



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