On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Brian Smith <peis...@eastlink.ca> wrote: > Enabling the nvidia drivers for my GTX465 results in X failure. How do I load > the VESA drivers to get back to my desktop and what furter feedback on my part > would be useful ? >
If you have a copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log from the failure (/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old after an X restart), could you attach it here? The problem is most likely just that our NVIDIA drivers (from 134) are too old to support your card. You may be able to just download new ones from the NVIDIA web site - make sure you 'pkg uninstall driver/graphics/nvidia' first since the downloaded drivers are in SVR4 format. Our hands may be tied at the moment because of unclear terms of redistribution for the regular driver downloads (also lacking time to repackage the drivers). I just took a moment to check the current license for the drivers: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nv_swlicense.html "2.1.2 Linux/FreeBSD/OpenSolaris Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of Section 2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux or FreeBSD operating systems, or other operating systems derived from the source code to these operating systems, may be copied and redistributed, provided that the binary files thereof are not modified in any way (except for unzipping of compressed files)." -Albert _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
