Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] geforce 6600 troubles

2023-05-17 Thread Goetz T. Fischer
after trying lots of xorg.conf settings i gave up and bought a geforce 210 which is supposed to work according to the hcl. however, it does only work properly under specific circumstances. the key is the monitor. if that doesn't supply edid data it's not much better than what i got from the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] geforce 6600 troubles

2023-05-15 Thread Goetz T. Fischer
i also tried the driver from solaris 10 but it crashed: [ 112.047] (II) LoadModule: "glx" [ 112.048] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/amd64/libglx.so [ 112.090] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" [ 112.090]compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0 [ 112.090]

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] geforce 6600 troubles

2023-05-15 Thread Goetz T. Fischer
much thanks for the quick reply! i repeated the procedure as described in the indiana docs and here is what i found in messages: # fgrep -i nvidi messages May 16 05:02:21 indi genunix: [ID 308332 kern.info] root on rpool1/ROOT/oi-nvidia fstype zfs May 16 05:02:23 indi pcieb: [ID 586369

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] geforce 6600 troubles

2023-05-15 Thread Till Wegmüller
The only thing I can think of is pkgrecv ing the solaris driver from the Solaris 10 install and using that as compat solution. The errors shown are just lightdm complaining we are using consolekit and not systemd. Which we wont use so it will keep complaining. Your 6600 card seems a bit

[OpenIndiana-discuss] geforce 6600 troubles

2023-05-14 Thread Goetz T. Fischer
hello everyone, i ran into a curious issue with a geforce 6600. since it's not supported by the shipped nvidia drivers, i installed version 304.137 as described there: http://docs.openindiana.org/dev/graphics-stack/#nvidia the procedure worked fine but the driver didn't although the 6600 is