Users of older nvidia graphics cards have to use one of their legacy
drivers, instead of the current bundled one - unfortunately, the legacy
installer only knows about SVR4 packages, so fails on Indiana, though
the workaround is a simple pkg uninstall first:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=62298&tstart=0
While I understand the right long term answer is to ask nvidia to fix
their driver design so that both drivers can be installed at once and
the pci id's choose which one to load, what can we do about this in
the pkg system/repo now?
The simplest solution I can think of is to create a new IPS package
NVDAgraphics-legacy that imports the legacy version of the packages,
so that upgrades to new Nevada builds won't helpfully "upgrade" them
to a new version that won't work with their card. Can these be marked
as incompatible with NVDAgraphics so that both aren't installed at once?
(They'll install files with the same paths as each other.)
I understand constraints would eventually let us have both versions under
the NVDAgraphics name and then constrain updates to only allow new bug fix
versions of the legacy driver while not allowing upgrades to the non-legacy
driver, but how close are those to happening?
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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