If it helps, Randy F. pointed out a change in Oracle's open-source version of drm to support "dumb" drivers in the DRM driver. In theory, that allows some user-space-only Xorg drivers to be used. Would not be hard to take that change into our drm driver if that helps things like Radeon.
Sorry I don't have time to help with this at the moment. ...nor have I much motivation, while I'm being falsely accused of theft in here... On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Gary Mills <gary_mi...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 05:38:06PM +0200, Jean-Pierre André wrote: >> Gary Mills wrote: >> >On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 09:24:26AM +0200, Jean-Pierre André wrote: >> >>Yesterday I upgraded a Hipster installation from April 2016 >> >>to the latest state (by starting a pkg update). >> > >> >I had a similar problem, and have partially solved it. I had an AMD >> >Athlon system with an NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE video card. It was >> >running OI Hipster installed from the 20160421 ISO. I had installed >> >NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.132 to get it to recognize the video card. >> >When I upgraded to the current Hipster in a new BE, the BE failed to >> >boot. >> > >> >I couldn't find a way to uninstall the Nvidia software I had >> >installed, but I was able to boot an old BE that I made before I >> >installed the software. It was using the VESA driver for that video >> >card, but otherwise everything ran normally. >> >> Uninstalling the driver should be straightforward : >> the install script first only does a "pkgrm" to remove >> the former version (before doing a "pkgadd" to install >> the requested one). > > No, because those are System V package commands. They still could > have damaged the previous intallation of an IPS package. > >> >Then I replaced the video card with a new low-end one that seemed >> >current. It was an Nvidia card with a GT730 GPU. The cost was less >> >than $100. Hipster recognized that card. It described my monitor >> >correctly and set the resolution to the monitor's default. The Nvidia >> >X Server Settings GUI worked. >> >> So you are also back to square one. I took a simpler >> approach by restoring the whole system from a backup. >> My understanding is that irreversible changes have been >> made somewhere (dead symlinks have been found, so some >> newly required feature is probably not available in older >> drivers). > > I'm not quite back to square one. I now have a stable standard system > with a modern video card. The OS upgrade should proceed correctly > now. If not, there's a bug in the new Hipster version. > >> And I have to give up upgrading. > > -- > -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev