Alan Coopersmith wrote: <We're working on it. Unfortunately, nVidia's driver installs a kernel module that manages the hardware, and thus conflicts with Xsun's nvidia drivers if you tried to use it at the same time to manage the hardware directly via /dev/xsvc. At runtime, this isn't a problem - you simply always use Xorg when the nVidia driver is installed. But the system installer still uses Xsun, so engineers from the X group, x86 driver group and install teams are working to migrate the Solaris x86 installer to Xorg (including modifying the graphics configuration setup in the install to work with Xorg instead of Xsun) so that we can then integrate the nVidia driver directly into the Solaris install.>
Alan: In making my previous statement, I was basing on the fact that: When I installed Solaris 10.1 or SE on some of my machines, the video worked OK during installation. But when the installation completes and system reboots, I would lose my video. After more carefully reading your post again, I believe the problem is much more involved than simply replacing the Xsun nVidia driver with nVidia's own proprietary driver, or vice versa (as the ATI script would do). Since I don't have any Solaris system installed at this moment, and will not have one for a long while, I don't think we will be trying to handle this issue. Regarding the nVidia driver issue, this is one of the key reasons we decided to ignore Fedora (or Red Hat) & to go with SuSE as the basis of our contemplated demo. I suppose most people in this forum know why. OTOH, SuSE is definitely not for newbies. Once we decided to go with SuSE, we might just as well keep Solaris as the other option. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
