Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA driver update

2011-06-02 Thread ken mays
a bug report accordingly at http://bugs.openindiana.org.   ~ Ken Mays From: Andrey N. Oktyabrski To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 3:33 PM Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA driver update Is it possible to replace the nvidia driver packages 256.44 by the 270.41

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA driver update

2011-06-02 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 23:56 +0400, Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote: > On 01.06.11 23:42, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > >> Is it possible to replace the nvidia driver packages 256.44 by the 270.41 > >> (from the NVIDIA site) in the openindiana.org IPS repository? > > > > Yes and I am using 270.41.06 but

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA driver update

2011-06-01 Thread Andrey N. Oktyabrski
On 01.06.11 23:42, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: Is it possible to replace the nvidia driver packages 256.44 by the 270.41 (from the NVIDIA site) in the openindiana.org IPS repository? Yes and I am using 270.41.06 but you need to do something like the following to install the new driver: $ pfexe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA driver update

2011-06-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
> > Is it possible to replace the nvidia driver packages 256.44 by the 270.41 > (from > the NVIDIA site) in the openindiana.org IPS repository? >   Yes and I am using 270.41.06 but you need to do something like the following to install the new driver: $ pfexec beadm list $ pfexec beadm create

[OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA driver update

2011-06-01 Thread Andrey N. Oktyabrski
Is it possible to replace the nvidia driver packages 256.44 by the 270.41 (from the NVIDIA site) in the openindiana.org IPS repository? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/ope

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia Driver update

2010-12-18 Thread russell
Hi Ken, Alas I do not but I have sent an email to see if I can borrow a card. On 12/17/10 08:57 PM, ken mays wrote: Russell, Any access to a GeForce GTX 260/280 Graphics Card to test your setup? Ken --- On Fri, 12/17/10, russell wrote: From: russell Subject: Re: Nvidia Driver update To

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia Driver update

2010-12-17 Thread ken mays
Hi Gordon, You may want to make Garrett D' Amore aware of this. A possible respin of OI_148 may be proposed if the fix and be added in a reasonable amount of time. ~ Ken Mays --- On Fri, 12/17/10, Gordon Ross wrote: > From: Gordon Ross > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nv

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia Driver update

2010-12-17 Thread Gordon Ross
Thanks for the tip about this. I've created an illumos issue for it: http://www.illumos.org/issues/534 BTW, this is in bugster as: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7001754 On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:50 AM, ken mays wrote: > Hi Russell, > > Tracking: defect.opensolaris.o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia Driver update

2010-12-17 Thread ken mays
Hi Russell, Tracking: defect.opensolaris.org -> 15751 The bug exists in the gfx 'private' VM code at the kernel level - so the current Nvidia driver update (i.e. 260.19.29) won't resolve this issue for specific Nvidia graphic card screen blanking or erractic bus error issues using ONNV_134 thro

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia Driver update

2010-12-16 Thread russell
Hi Ken, The Nvidia 8600GTS is generating to many bus errors to be used, so I tried with the installed GT200. I installed the NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-260.19.29.run driver as follows :- # init s # pkg uninstall nvidia I had to move the NVDAgraphics sideways so that the new driver could be installed