8800GT on Solaris?

[tripwirecc]

When I try to start Xorg, it fails and tells me in the log files that it failed to load the GLX module. I've installed 100.14.23, too, and I still get that issue.

[zander]

The 100.14.23 NVIDIA Solaris graphics driver does not support the GeForce 8800GT. An updated Solaris graphics driver capable of driving this GPU should become available in the next few weeks.

[tripwirecc]

Few weeks?!?!

Sigh, I guess there's no way that one can play the newest games and use an alternative OS as their main system.

[tripwirecc]

Both the Linux and FreeBSD drivers posts list explicitely 8800GT support, the Solaris ones don't. Should I be concerned?

[tripwirecc]

You've got to be ****ting me. It still fails to initialize, even with the new drivers. Now I can probably wait another two months to get remotely support for that device, considering the slow pace these drivers are released.

[tripwirecc]

Now that my fit is over, I've put the card back in and pulled an Xorg.log, if that's even of any use.

Most obvious thing in there would be this:

(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation unknown chipset (0x0611) rev 162, Mem @ 0xd2000000/24, 0xc0000000/28, 0xd0000000/25, I/O @ 0x8000/7

I'm downloading Solaris snv_76 now and installing it tonight, but I don't expect change from this, since this driver is supposed to work with Solaris 10, too.

[zander]

The 169.04 NVIDIA Solaris graphics driver is expected to be able to drive the GeForce 8800GT, even though it officially supports Quadro products, only. Please run the nvidia-solaris-bug-report.sh script after the X startup problem has reproduced and attach the resulting log file.

[tripwirecc]

Will do.

I'm just done upgrading from snv_72 to snv_76 though. If it suddenly works, it might as well be because something changed between the builds.

[tripwirecc]

Here you go.

What's bothering me is that it says "Unknown chipset". Note: The 7800GT works just fine with the driver and xorg.conf.

Also, I have an EVGA 8800GT Superclocked. Some guy over in the Linux forum, who has the same card, claims that he has the same or similar problem.

[zander]

Does it work if you issue these two commands as 'root':

# update_drv -a -i '"pci10de,611"'
# reboot -- -r

?

[tripwirecc]

Needed to add the driver name to update_drv, but it worked!

Thanks for your help! :V

(I should put this away in a text file for the next upgrade, in case I run into the same issue again.)

[zander]

That's good to hear. There's some documentation on this in the Solaris graphics driver README, but it only covers the symptoms of this problem after an initial installation. I'll make a note to improve the documentation.