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 you need to do something like the > > following to install the new driver: > > > > $ pfexec beadm list > > $ pfexec beadm create oi-nvidia > > $ pfexec beadm mount oi-nvidia /mnt > > $ pfexec pkg -R /mnt uninstall -r driver/graphics/nvidia > > $ pfexec /bin/sh NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-270.41.06.run --extract-only > > $ cd NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-270.41.06 > > $ pfexec pkgadd -R /mnt -d . NVDAgraphics NVDAgraphicsr > > $ pfexec bootadm update-archive -R /mnt > > $ pfexec beadm unmount -f oi-nvidia > > $ pfexec beadm activate oi-nvidia > > $ pfexec reboot -p > > Thank you, I'll try this. > > Anyway, "pkg image-update" is much more right way :-)
I brought this up on oi-dev recently and was informed that nvidia drivers will be updated for 151 release. -- Ken Gunderson <kgund...@teamcool.net> _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss