Nvidia geforce gtx 1060 is always a fall back option for me On Sun, 9 Mar 2025, 12:02 Andreas Wacknitz via openindiana-discuss, < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Am 3/9/25 um 12:25 schrieb theophile.dudreuilh--- via openindiana-discuss: > > Thank you Andreas, > > > > I’m also writing this from a PC running OpenIndiana (Dell Precision > 7520, i7-7920HQ, with Quadro P3000, previously using a P4000 on a Precision > 7720), and it is definitely not the NVIDIA card that’s working—nothing I've > tried makes it functional. > > Neither the NVIDIA P600 nor the P620 have ever worked with OpenIndiana > on any machine I tested, from older HP Z440s to more recent setups, across > all my tests. > > However, I've never encountered any issues with Solaris or FreeBSD. > > > > On OpenIndiana, it systematically fails for various reasons (memory > mapping errors, unrecognized cards, firmware incompatibilities, etc.). > > So, thanks a lot for these valuable examples with the HP Z6 G4, > Andreas!It would indeed be great if we had a reliable list of working > setups with NVIDIA somewhere for OI. > > > > Le dimanche 9 mars 2025 à 12:05:50 UTC+1, Andreas Wacknitz via > openindiana-discuss <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > > Am 09.03.25 um 11:55 schrieb theophile.dudreuilh--- via > openindiana-discuss: > >> Hello, > >> I would like to contribute to this discussion by sharing my personal > experience regarding the use of NVIDIA graphics cards on illumos > distributions, specifically OpenIndiana and OmniOSce. > >> > >> Over the past three years, I have tested approximately twenty NVIDIA > graphics cards that were supposedly compatible according to the NVIDIA > Solaris drivers ported to OpenIndiana, as indicated in their documentation > once installed. Unfortunately, none of these supposedly compatible cards > have ever functioned, despite working perfectly under Solaris. > >> I would greatly appreciate it if someone could provide a concrete and > VERIFIED example of at least ONE NVIDIA graphics card that genuinely works > on illumos. > >> Based on all my attempts thus far, it appears clear that there is no > genuine support for NVIDIA GPUs on illumos. > >> This conclusion aligns with feedback I've previously received from > other developers several months ago. > >> Regarding the GT 1030 specifically, I also conducted thorough tests on > three different motherboards (all officially compatible with this GPU) > without any success. > >> Additionally, I should point out that the GT 1030 does not appear in > the official driver lists currently available for OpenIndiana/Solaris. > >> To date, the only "modern" graphics solutions I've successfully > operated on illumos have been the integrated graphics units from Intel > processors (HD Graphics). > >> Therefore, if anyone in the community has genuinely managed to get an > NVIDIA graphics card working (and not just the integrated Intel HD Graphics > from the CPU), please speak up! > > My HP Z6 (W-3235) is not my only system running OI. At the moment I have > another Z4G4 (W-2245) with the RTX 5000, and two older Fujitsu W530 with > Quadro P600 and P620 (both have Xeon E3-1245v3). The HP's have replaced > my Fujitsu W550 (E3-1245v5, Quadro P2200) and Dell Precision 3630 > (E-2274G, RTX 2000). > > All of them work perfectly fine on OI with driver version up to 470. > Newer driver versions, eg. 550, seem to have problems as firefox gets > really slow with them. BTW I am using my HP's as my secondary > workstations on a daily basis. My primary workstation is an Apple iMac > 27" just because I need some software that is not supported by OI and > its monitor is superior to everything else I have (additionally I have a > nice Logitech mechanical keyboard that uses Bluetooth LE which is not > supported by illumos (only my previous Dell workstation was able to let > me use it under illumos for unknown reasons (probably because Dell's > BIOS was able to provide an emulation)). > > Andreas > > > >> > >> > >> Best regards, > >> Théophile. > >> (majekla) > >> > >> Le dimanche 9 mars 2025 à 10:53:56 UTC+1, Paul Floyd via > openindiana-discuss<[email protected]> a écrit : > >> > >> Hi > > I am using NVIDIA Quadro P600, P620, RTX4000 (Turing), and RTX5000 > > (Turing) in my workstations. > > In the past also had Quadro 600, K600 and K620, P2000, and P2200 (which > > have been replaced only because I got newer cards). > > > > So there must be something on your side that prevents the NVIDIA cards > > from working on OI. > > > > I have written this on my HP Z6G4 with an RTX 4000 with thunderbird > 128.8.0. > > > > > > Andreas > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
