NVIDIA drivers with Solaris 10 x86

From: Benjamin DeMora (Benjamin.DeMora@vivista.sungard.com)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2006 - 04:36:52 EDT


I've got a desktop machine with Solaris 10 x86 (01/06 release)
installed, with an NVIDIA Geforce XFX5200 graphics card installed.

I have configured it to use Xorg instead of Xsun - and it works fine and
dandy, no problems with that...

Until I install the NVIDIA proprietary drivers for Solaris and try to
use them.

The "nv" driver (Solaris default) work fine (if a little slow and choppy
on the graphics!) but as soon as I download the
NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-1.0-8762.run graphics driver and install it using "sh
NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-1.0-8762.run", then change the driver in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf to "nvidia", X no longer wants to load at all.

in fact it locks the machine locally (even the keyboard interrupt gets
frozen - CAPS lock light no longer lights up on keyboard!)

I have tried this a number of times (going as far as reinstalling the OS
a few times!) and nothing seems to work.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

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Benjamin J de Mora
UNIX Systems Engineer
Systems Management
SunGard Vivista

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