Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia card installed.. now lightdm fails

2020-09-02 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Hi Robert, Thanks, I managed to get it sorted by using another graphics card. /tony On Wed, 2020-09-02 at 12:31 +0100, bscuk2 wrote: > Hello, > > This is a problem I encountered installing a driver update for a > EVEA > GTX1060.I tried a number of drivers before getting success with >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia card installed.. now lightdm fails

2020-09-02 Thread bscuk2
Hello, This is a problem I encountered installing a driver update for a EVEA GTX1060.I tried a number of drivers before getting success with 396.24.You may check the version of xorg video compatibility with the driver. A number of bugs and work rounds are listed in the Nvidia support forum.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia card installed.. now lightdm fails

2020-08-25 Thread Tony Brian Albers
I ended up copying the libEGL.so.1 and a few others from the 340.108 driver into /usr/X11/lib/NVIDIA and making a few symlinks. Then I hit reboot and ran for cover. But it works. Lightdm is happy, and X is using the nvidia driver. I had to turn compiz off though, probably because the graphics

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia card installed.. now lightdm fails

2020-08-25 Thread Till Wegmüller
Hi Could be that you need libEGL.so.1 from mesa then x.org can run without opengl but lightdm can't Greetings Till On 25.08.20 10:08, Tony Brian Albers wrote: > Ok, so I investigated further. > > It seems that the NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.137 package bundle does not > include libEGL.so.1, but

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia card installed.. now lightdm fails

2020-08-25 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Ok, so I investigated further. It seems that the NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.137 package bundle does not include libEGL.so.1, but versions 390.138 and 340.108 do. But since X is actually working, is this an issue with lightdm? /tony On Tue, 2020-08-25 at 06:36 +, Tony Brian Albers wrote: >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia card installed.. now lightdm fails

2020-08-25 Thread Till Wegmüller
Hi Tony We use the SMF service ogl-select (OpenGL Select) to switch between the mesa and nvidia implementations of OpenGL libraries. Nvidia due to it's proprietary nature had to reimplement all GPL libraries aswell. If you have a 32bit nvidia driver you will be missing the required 64bit OpenGL

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia card installed.. now lightdm fails

2020-08-25 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Good morning, So I managed to find an old nvidia card, and I got the nvidia driver installed. I followed the notes here: https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Nvidia+Graphics But to uninstall driver/graphics/nvidia, I also had to remove xorg- video (meta package). During the 'bootadm update-archive