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 apparently could not boot beyond the single user mode, but > the real reason appears to lie in a change in the video driver > ABI.
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. 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. That system is still running Hipster from 2016, but I'm ready to try the upgrade again. -- -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
