On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:40 PM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know why I should expect anything different given that gparted > dumps core in 2020.10 and doesn't recognize a Windows 7 Pro and Debian 9.3 > installation on a 2 TB disk in 2017.10. > > Still not detecting the card and installing the correct driver seems > rather lame. > Nice way to thank someone who just spent a few evenings trying to help you. > > "scanpci -v" produces this for the graphics card in my Z400: > > pci bus 0x000f cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x0638 > NVIDIA Corporation G94GL [Quadro FX 1800] > CardVendor 0x10de card 0x062c (NVIDIA Corporation, Card unknown) > STATUS 0x0010 COMMAND 0x0047 > CLASS 0x03 0x00 0x00 REVISION 0xa1 > BIST 0x00 HEADER 0x00 LATENCY 0x00 CACHE 0x00 > BASE0 0xf6000000 SIZE 16777216 MEM > BASE1 0x00000000e0000000 SIZE 268435456 MEM64 PREFETCHABLE > BASE3 0x00000000f4000000 SIZE 33554432 MEM64 > BASE5 0x0000e000 SIZE 128 I/O > MAX_LAT 0x00 MIN_GNT 0x00 INT_PIN 0x01 INT_LINE 0x03 > > I don't see a lot of difficulty to writing a shell script that takes the > output of scanpci and spits out the appropriate nVidia driver number. If > the install system is sane enough that such a solution will work, I'll > write and maintain it. > > I am proposing: > > GRAPHIC_DRIVER=`/sbin/ ` > > If that is not a viable solution for some reason, then I'm not likely to > keep using OI. I've repeatedly volunteered to help over the last 8-10 > years. I've never ever received useful replies. In most cases, not even a > useless reply. Mostly I just see whining about the limited number of people > providing support. > > I estimate that "nvidia_driver_to_use" would take 3-4 hours to write. Wall > time longer if I need to contact nVidia for device and driver mappings. If > you demand that I spend 2-3 days analyzing the horribly borked install > process, it's just not going to happen. > > I might do that, but only if I get replies. > > Reg > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
