Hi, I have a problem with Nvidia. I don't think there's much that can be done about it, but I thought it would be worth mentioning in case anyone else has experienced this before and in case anyone is looking for a workaround in future.
I did a fresh installation of 2021.10 on an Z77 system which has an Nvidia Quadro NVS 510 GPU. I initially tried the GUI version but fell back to the text version because the GUI rebooted straight after the language selection (this was the panic). After installation, I realised the problem was with the Nvidia driver. A few seconds after X is launched, there's a kernel panic. It gets as far as a showing a white square in the top left of the screen. Xorg.0.log is empty. The version of the Nvidia driver installed by default apparently support this GPU (Kepler). I worked around the issue by creating an xorg.conf which specifies the 'vesa' driver and not 'nvidia' (as used by default). This works and MATE starts and works as expected (although with 800x600) - the problem seems to be with the nvidia module. I imagine the way forward would be to report the problem to Nvidia seeing as the driver is closed source. I doubt they would be interested though due to the age of this GPU (Kepler consumer GeForce is now unsupported). James Madgwick _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss