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pageicon Thursday Jun 02, 2005

Nvidia Drivers available for Solaris on x86 and x64

Further to my not that I gave a brief demo of looking glass at SOSUG on Tuesday night, I just checked the nVIDIA drivers download page.

screen shot from nVIDIA driver downloads

There is a bit more information at http://www.nvidia.com/object/solaris_display_1.0-7664.html, including a link to a discussion board on the driver.

The driver is supported for Quadro cards, but also simply works for many of the GeForce ones (like what's in my notebook. It should also be noted that it will only work with Solaris 10 and anything newer (e.g. Solaris Express and Open Solaris).

Well, simply works is a little bit of an over simplification.

You'll need to add the device name into /etc/driver_aliases if you are not using a supported card.

I'll try to get some instructions up in the next day or so (unless someone beats me to it).

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Posted at 01:41PM Jun 02, 2005 by Alan Hargreaves in Solaris  |  Comments[8]

Comments:

Glad I checked Sunblog today! I just installed it. Maybe because I am using a "supported" platform (W2100z w/ NV280), after "sh *.run" and "reboot -- -r", the driver is installed automatically after the reboot. Yes, only two commands and one reboot, no editting any file. I was a little worried because the readme/guide is so long :-) Thanks, Tao

Posted by Tao on June 02, 2005 at 02:44 PM EST #

The classic Hannibal Smith quote from the A-Team seems appropriate...

I love it when a plan comes together

Alan.

Posted by Alan Hargreaves on June 02, 2005 at 02:53 PM EST #

Hi, Is there any opengl acceleration supported for "common" NVIDIA card like Geforce 2, 3, 4 and 6x00 ? I am waiting the linux binary compatibility to test Unreal Tournament 2004 linux binary on solaris 10 :-) They are already working with FreeBSD and NVIDIA drivers + linux emulation.

Posted by Damien Petrilli on June 02, 2005 at 05:29 PM EST #

I am running on a GeForce 4 4400 Go

I hope to post something tomorrow with the instructtionas there is somes stuff that you have to do extra with the non-supported drivers.

Just remember, they support Quadrom the other might work but are not supported.

Alan.

Posted by Alan Hargreaves on June 02, 2005 at 05:36 PM EST #

OK, thanks for your answer, I will test that this week :-)

Posted by Damien Petrilli on June 02, 2005 at 07:09 PM EST #

This is great. I've been looking forward to this since the NVIDIA announcement late last year!

Now, if drivers for the nForce platform ethernet chipsets get integrated into Solaris, everything will be just peachy...

-Jason =:^)

Posted by Jason Ozolins on June 06, 2005 at 12:02 PM EST #

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