*I upgraded Solaris 11:*
/bash-4.1$ cat /etc/release
Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 X86
Copyright (c) 1983, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Assembled 18 October 2011
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*And to the latest Nvidia driver "195.09".*
/bash-4.1$ nvidia-settings -v
nvidia-settings: version 295.09
([email protected]) Thu Dec 22 01:34:45 PST
2011
The NVIDIA X Server Settings tool.
This program is used to configure the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver.
For more detail, please see the nvidia-settings(1) man page.
Copyright (C) 2004 - 2010 NVIDIA Corporation.
bash-4.1$/
*My Graphics Card is:*
/bash-4.1$ nvidia-settings -g
.
.
.
.
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: Quadro FX 5800/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.09/
*It appears there is some problem now with the video bios.*
/bash-4.1$ svcs -x
svc:/system/vbiosd:default (BIOS call emulation)
State: maintenance since January 2, 2012 03:24:42 PM EST
Reason: Start method exited with $SMF_EXIT_ERR_CONFIG.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS
See: vbiosd(1M)
See: /var/svc/log/system-vbiosd:default.log
Impact: This service is not running.
bash-4.1$/
*Looking at "/var/svc/log/system-vbiosd:default.log" doesn't reveal much
information.*
/bash-4.1$ cat /var/svc/log/system-vbiosd:default.log
.
.
.
.
[ Dec 30 15:28:43 Enabled. ]
[ Dec 30 15:28:44 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-vbiosd start"). ]
[ Dec 30 15:28:45 Method "start" exited with status 0. ]
[ Dec 30 20:10:12 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Dec 30 20:10:12 Executing stop method (:kill). ]
[ Jan 2 15:05:45 Enabled. ]
[ Jan 2 15:05:47 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-vbiosd start"). ]
[ Jan 2 15:05:47 Method "start" exited with status 0. ]
[ Jan 2 15:23:49 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Jan 2 15:23:49 Executing stop method (:kill). ]
[ Jan 2 15:24:40 Enabled. ]
[ Jan 2 15:24:41 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-vbiosd start"). ]
vbiosd: start-up process failed
WARNING: /usr/sbin/vbiosd failed
[ Jan 2 15:24:42 Method "start" exited with status 96. ]
bash-4.1$/
*The display still operates correctly. Should I disregard this message? Is
there a way to correct this? Should I go back the an earlier driver where
there was no problem?
Thanks for any responses.
Paul*
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