Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problems after updating to latest Hipster - Nvidia versions

2021-03-13 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
As was suggested by a frequent poster of this list, I saved the core dump and "viewed" with fmadm faulty. Here is what I see: ---   -- - TIME    EVENT-ID  MSG-ID SEVERITY

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated NVIDIA drivers

2021-03-13 Thread John D Groenveld
In message , 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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated NVIDIA drivers

2021-03-13 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
System installation is very different from building or the installation of optional packages. There is a minimal set of packages that must be installed to have a working system. A portion of those packages are system HW dependent. Conceptually I describe it as follows: Base system

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated NVIDIA drivers

2021-03-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 3/13/21 4:27 AM, Stephan Althaus wrote: But i don't know how to integrate this into the build system nor at packaging level. 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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated NVIDIA drivers

2021-03-13 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
The first step is to determine what HW is present, What I am offering to do is to write a script which run at single user level will determine the model of graphics card installed. I shall also build the table for the nVidia cards so that it returns the correct driver filename. If that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated NVIDIA drivers

2021-03-13 Thread Stephan Althaus
On 03/12/21 10:39 PM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss 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