Peter Arnold wrote: > > My first problem is that if I set the bios to search PCI for video cards, it > finds an nVidia but will not completely boot. It gets through grub, tells me > it's booting solaris version blah (about 3 lines) then hangs. The little > underscore "cursor" seems to progressively jump down the console screen but > nothing else. I cannot get any response from the console not can I ssh to it, > ping it or otherwise get any response. I get similar if I try and boot from > cdrom > Since the nvidia graphics driver is not on the miniroot when booting from the CDROM, having it still hang points toward a resource conflict. Is there an option in the SBIOS to disable the i965 onboard graphics (instead of just shuffling the order)?
> > # ls -sla /dev/ | egrep 'fb|vidia|disp' > 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Apr 29 08:13 fb -> /devices/pci > at 0,0/display at 2:text-0 > 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 23 12:45 fb0 -> fbs/text-0 > 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Apr 23 12:45 fb1 -> fbs/nvidia0 > 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Apr 23 12:45 fb2 -> fbs/nvidia1 > 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Apr 23 12:45 fbs > 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Apr 22 10:04 nvidia0 -> > fbs/nvidia0 > 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Apr 22 10:04 nvidia1 -> > fbs/nvidia1 > 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Apr 22 10:04 nvidia2 -> > fbs/nvidia2 > 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Apr 22 10:04 nvidia3 -> > fbs/nvidia3 > 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Apr 22 10:04 nvidia4 -> > fbs/nvidia4 > 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Apr 22 10:04 nvidia5 -> > fbs/nvidia5 > 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Apr 22 10:04 nvidia6 -> > fbs/nvidia6 > 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Apr 22 10:04 nvidia7 -> > fbs/nvidia7 > 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 38 Apr 22 10:04 nvidiactl -> > ../devices/pseudo/nvidia at 255:nvidiactl > 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Apr 23 12:14 origfbstuff > 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Apr 23 12:24 origfbstuff2 > 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Apr 21 17:41 vt00 -> fb > # > > Why so many nvidia# ? > > There should be only two /dev/fbs/nvidia# (0,1) created by devfs which matches your hardware. The /dev/nvidia# (0-7) symlinks are created at NVDAgraphicsr package install time to provide device names compatible with Linux/FreeBSD (common source tools).
