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(EN) NVIDIA GeForce on Solaris 10 x86

Support platform of graphics driver of nvidia for Solaris 10 x86 are Quadro series. This driver also work on NVIDIA GeForce platform well. But, you have to update driver information to use NVIDIA's driver on Solaris 10 x86 with GeForce series.

The way to update driver information and install NVIDIA's driver is as follows.

First, install driver and reboot. You can download NVIDIA's driver from NVIDIA : http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html.
After install graphics driver (execute download file), copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, if your environment does not have /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
On default environment, you can use SXGA(1280x1024). If you want to use UXGA, you should execute /etc/X11/bin/xorgconfig to make new xorg.conf, and edit it after that.

After install driver, logon root user on Solaris 10 console mode.

Execute "/usr/X11/bin/scanpci" and get GeForce card information. The following example is case of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200.
Use vendor ID 0x10de and device ID 0x0322 to update driver information.

# /usr/X11/bin/scanpci
...
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1f function 0x05: vendor 0x8086 device 0x24d5
 Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller

pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x0322
 nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]

pci bus 0x0002 cardnum 0x01 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x1019
 Intel Corp. 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (LOM)
...

Execute "update_drv" to update driver infomation (/etc/driver_aliases) as follows.
Device name is as pciXXXX,YYY. XXXX is a vender ID and YYY is device ID. You don't have to write the first " 0 " of device ID.

# update_drv -a -i '"pci10de,322"' nvidia

Finally, execute " reboot " command with re-configuration option.

# reboot -- -r

Posted at 10:36午前 8 15, 2005 by Yasuhiro Fujitsuki in Linux & Solaris(EN)  |  投稿されたコメント[1]