On 9 May 2011, at 20:20, Chris Ridd wrote: > > On 9 May 2011, at 20:12, John Martin wrote: > >> On 05/ 9/11 02:32 PM, Chris Ridd wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I got a new Dell workstation but the supplied Nvidia gfx card isn't being >>> recognised by S11 Express. >>> >>> I put the Xorg.0.log at<http://pastebin.com/21VeKLc9> but it looks like >>> (line 297) the card is a GF108. The "Bad V_BIOS checksum" on line 289 is >>> alarming. >>> >>> Is the card too new for the Oracle-supplied driver? Is the driver from >>> nvidia.com any more likely to work? >> >> Too new for Solaris 11 Express (driver 260.19.36). >> GF108 requires 270.41.06 or higher. >> >> Download 270.41.06 and install in a new BE using the instructions >> in comments #5, 6 and 10 of: >> >> https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=12196 > > Thanks John, I'll give that a try tomorrow!
It worked perfectly, thanks again. Hopefully the updated driver will be included in the IPS repo for later S11 releases... Chris _______________________________________________ xwin-discuss mailing list [email protected] List info: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/xwin-discuss Unsubscribe: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/options/xwin-discuss
