Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

2024-05-07 Thread Andreas Wacknitz via openindiana-discuss
Am 08.05.24 um 02:42 schrieb Rainer Heilke: One more question as I head out the door... Groveling around the interwebs, I ran into a possibly related thread: Could I still run into problems because this is a UEFI-only system? No, on my HP Z4 G4 X11 (nvidia) doesn't work in legacy mode but UEFI o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

2024-05-07 Thread Rainer Heilke
One more question as I head out the door... Groveling around the interwebs, I ran into a possibly related thread: Could I still run into problems because this is a UEFI-only system? Thanks, Rainer ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

2024-05-07 Thread Rainer Heilke
Yep, couldn't see the forest for the trees. That's exactly what happened; since the live DVD couldn't load X, it didn't install any X components. The lightdm service went straight into maintenance mode. The Xorg.0.log is saying: [54.149] (II) LoadModule: "intel" [54.149] (II) Loading

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

2024-05-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith via openindiana-discuss
On 5/7/24 12:15, Rainer Heilke wrote: I'm getting the feeling this isn't possible.  To wit: Xorg.0.log doesn't exist (which seems odd...) That suggests nothing is even trying to run X11, which could be because it wasn't installed, as Till suggested. dmesg shows: May  7 04:22:25 omar nvidia_mo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

2024-05-07 Thread Till Wegmueller
Ok, So with your GPU and generally VESA at least available the following is a set of checks you can do to get your bearings. Use `pkg list` to show a list of all installed packages. lightdm and x11 should be visible. `pkg list -a` shows all packages known the the system with additional filters

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

2024-05-07 Thread Till Wegmueller
Hi On 07.05.2024 21:50, Rainer Heilke wrote: I've never used this, and only now installed the package (and its dependencies, etc.) Is this what you are wanting to see? (Controller)Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620:DEVID=0x5916:CLASS=0003:[0,2,0]:vgatext:0:Attached:VENDOR=0x8086 Thanks for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

2024-05-07 Thread Rainer Heilke
I used the GUI disk, but now that you ask, it dropped down to text-only as well, and so I think maybe it only ran what the text installer would have done. The lights are coming on... NOW things are making more sense! Rainer -- Original Message -- From "Till Wegmueller" To openindia

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

2024-05-07 Thread Rainer Heilke
-- Original Message -- From "Till Wegmueller" To openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date 2024-05-07 12:07:17 PM Subject Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver Hi, nvidia and modesettings messages are not from X11 but rather from the kernel trying all drivers when It

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

2024-05-07 Thread Till Wegmueller
Hi, Rainer From which ISO/USB image did you install? If you have installed from the text versions you have not installed any Xorg or gui at all. You will need to install mate_install package with pkg. -Till On 07.05.2024 21:15, Rainer Heilke wrote: I'm getting the feeling this isn't possibl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

2024-05-07 Thread Rainer Heilke
I'm getting the feeling this isn't possible. To wit: Xorg.0.log doesn't exist (which seems odd...) . dmesg shows: May 7 04:22:25 omar pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: lockstat0 May 7 04:22:25 omar genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] lockstat0 is /pseudo/lockstat@0 May 7 04:22:25 omar

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

2024-05-07 Thread Till Wegmueller
Hi, nvidia and modesettings messages are not from X11 but rather from the kernel trying all drivers when It does not find a card. Note that we are not a FreeBSD based OS thus assumptions about the card simply working cannot be made. I am currently updating our libdrm version and then mesa an

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

2024-05-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith via openindiana-discuss
/var/log/Xorg.0.log should have information on what config files the X server read, what devices it actually found, and what decisions it made on which driver to use for them. It would have to be a very old motherboard to have an Intel graphics chip that's not part of an Intel CPU - they merged t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

2024-05-07 Thread Rainer Heilke
-- Original Message -- From "Alan Coopersmith" To "Rainer Heilke" ; "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" Date 2024-05-06 6:57:43 PM Subject Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver On 5/6/24 18:29, Rainer Heilke wrote: On 5/6/24 18:10, Rainer Heilke wrote: Greetings. Wh