Dear Edward: The plain and simple reason why the miniroot employs nv and not nvidia is that the nvidia driver kit is just too big, it doesn't fit! Otherwise, I would have preferred to put the nvidia kit in there. So, we have the disadvantage of differing support levels between miniroot install phase and full runtime phase which is in violation of the intention of identical performance at both phases. Its ironic that some Nvidia gpus (our preferred gpu) let this flaw be noticed.
On the other hand, the relatively recent miniroot project of moving from Xsun to Xorg enabled inclusion of nvidia in the OS install package (it previously had to be downloaded and installed in a separate step after main installation) and also, delivers all the autoconfiguration and modern gpu goodness of Xorg for so many other gpus. Over all many, many more laptops and systems are working because of it. Stuart Kreitman Edward O'Callaghan wrote: > Dear list, > > After my IRC chat over at #opensolaris (check logs for 25/12/07). > I would like to ask why the Solaris installer choices to use nv as the > default driver irrelevant of the series of the card. > I have the understanding that some older nvidia cards are not support > by the nvidia driver but are by nv, however some newer cards the case > is the other way around. > Could the installer not default to the nvidia to be consistent with > the after install experience that cde-login/Xorg defaults to (nvidia > driver) and choice to use nv driver if the card is detected to be a > older series ? > > This way we don't end up with the two common questions; > "Well if the installer detected my card right why is Xorg not starting > after the install?" > and > "Why does the installer have to be done in text mode but after the > system is up, Xorg detects everything fine?" > > What are your views? > > Thanks for your time, > Edward O'Callaghan. > > -- > All Documents adhered to the ISO/IEC 26300 standard file format for > electronic office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, > presentations and word processing documents from this email address. > The author does not take responsibility of the recipients inability to > read international standards and who use proprietary products such as > MS Office. > See: http://www.openoffice.org/ > Edward O'Callaghan. > -- > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EdwardOcallaghan > http://moonshine.opn4.org/ > http://www.pcbsd.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org >
