In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] using Nvidia RTX 5060 with recent...:
Your Mail made me checking on my HP Z4 G4 and Z6 G4 workstations with NVIDIA
graphics cards.
My Z4 G4 has an RTX 5000 Turing generation (so 3 generations older than your
RTX 5060) while
my Z6 G4 has an RTX 4000 Turing. Both machines have our default 470 NVIDIA
driver installed.
While my Z4 G4 still works fine with the latest illumos-gate:
╰─➤ uname -a
SunOS goliath 5.11 illumos-08292a06bd i86pc i386 i86pc
my Z6 G4 starts to have problems with X11 starting with
╰─➤ uname -a
SunOS colossus 5.11 illumos-f2934b008e i86pc i386 i86pc
from May 19th, 2026.
The last working boot environment is
╰─➤ uname -a
SunOS colossus 5.11 illumos-5425aa59e8 i86pc i386 i86pc
from May 14th, 2026.
So I suspect one of the illumos-gate changes to be problematic for this
machine:
Thanks for the response Andreas, I appreciate it.
So it sounds like at least the Nvidia GPU issue I'm running into may
be a recent problem that will likely require some debugging with the
Illumos folks.
The problem for me is that I'm trying to answer the question "will this
specific Dell hardware configuration my coworkers ordered work well for
OI for me", and it's a bit time-sensitive because my workplace's fiscal
end of year is coming up soon. If I'm going to be able to order another
copy of this hardware for my use, I need to figure out all of the
unsupported hardware and decide how critical each item is for my purposes.
I know an older version of the Live media won't work for testing, because
it uses older nvidia drivers that don't support this card.
Tonight I tried the 2025.10 text installer, but I was completely stymied
trying to install nvidia drivers or convert it from text to workstation
via mate_install.
I understand hipster's rolling release model and why that's really the
only option with our number of contributors. For testing, though, I
thought I would be able to do something like:
install from text_install 2025.10
pkg list | grep userland-incorp
to get the version of userland-incorporation for the 2025.10 install (it was
0.5.11-2025.0.0.31598), and then
pkg contents -m userland-incorporation | egrep nvidia
and then install the exact version of the nvidia (580) drivers that
the current userland-incorporation has as a version lock:
depend facet.version-lock.driver/graphics/nvidia=true
fmri=driver/graphics/[email protected] type=incorporate
However, that was still blocked.
I eventually tried removing userland-incorporation (and entire), but I
still wasn't able to make any progress getting a recent driver installed
without doing a full update.
Unless someone has some idea for how to convert a pre-2026.04 text install
to the 580 drivers, it looks like I'm blocked for now.
Thanks,
Tim
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Tim Mooney [email protected]
Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure /
Division of Information Technology / 701-231-1076 (Voice)
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164
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