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KarlD
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 Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:44 pm Post subject:
Nvidia Graphics card for Solaris 10?
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Was planning to buy a new graphics card for a home built system
and I was thinking about the Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 AGP card.
Earlier I've only used the VIA integrated graphics that came on
the board.
Anyone has any experience in installing the drivers for that card
or similar nvidia cards in Solaris 10? I suppose I need to download
drivers from nvidia and switch over to the Xorg server in stead of
Xsun. It is listed as supported both in the Solairs HCL list and in
the "nvidia Quadro" driver readme file.
Does the Solaris driver also support accessing the integrated
TV encoder included on the FX 5500 card?
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Paul
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Couldn't say for sure on the FX series, but I know there is an NV25 driver
built in (autodetected for my Ti4600) as well as two other drivers for
NVidia.
No clue as to the video encoder, I know on many NV cards it defaults to a
second head/output. I'm guessing you could use that, but haven't tried it
personally.
Good Luck
Paul
"KarlD" <k_dal2@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Was planning to buy a new graphics card for a home built system
and I was thinking about the Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 AGP card.
Earlier I've only used the VIA integrated graphics that came on
the board.
Anyone has any experience in installing the drivers for that card
or similar nvidia cards in Solaris 10? I suppose I need to download
drivers from nvidia and switch over to the Xorg server in stead of
Xsun. It is listed as supported both in the Solairs HCL list and in
the "nvidia Quadro" driver readme file.
Does the Solaris driver also support accessing the integrated
TV encoder included on the FX 5500 card?
Any input would be appreciated
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Dave Littell
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 2:50 am Post subject:
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KarlD wrote:
| Quote: | Was planning to buy a new graphics card for a home built system
and I was thinking about the Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 AGP card.
Earlier I've only used the VIA integrated graphics that came on
the board.
Anyone has any experience in installing the drivers for that card
or similar nvidia cards in Solaris 10? I suppose I need to download
drivers from nvidia and switch over to the Xorg server in stead of
Xsun. It is listed as supported both in the Solairs HCL list and in
the "nvidia Quadro" driver readme file.
Does the Solaris driver also support accessing the integrated
TV encoder included on the FX 5500 card?
Any input would be appreciated
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Hi,
I use several of the PCI version of this card. Both the dual-head
configurations and the TV-out (S-video) work extremely well for my
purposes.
I just downloaded the NVIDIA driver and followed their (excellent!)
documentation regarding how to configure things. I was shocked and
amazed how easy it was.
Good luck,
Dave |
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Marc D. Williams
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:28 am Post subject:
Re: Nvidia Graphics card for Solaris 10?
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* KarlD wrote, On 06/16/06 13:44:
| Quote: | Was planning to buy a new graphics card for a home built system
and I was thinking about the Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 AGP card.
Earlier I've only used the VIA integrated graphics that came on
the board.
Anyone has any experience in installing the drivers for that card
or similar nvidia cards in Solaris 10? I suppose I need to download
drivers from nvidia and switch over to the Xorg server in stead of
Xsun. It is listed as supported both in the Solairs HCL list and in
the "nvidia Quadro" driver readme file.
Does the Solaris driver also support accessing the integrated
TV encoder included on the FX 5500 card?
I've got it working okay with FX 5200. |
I had issues with the last two nvidia drivers and after much heartache
and forum posting I found a simple solution.
If after installing the drivers and rebooting you find your system
locking up when X tries to start add the following to the Device
section of xorg.conf
Option "NvAGP" "0"
In both Linux and Solaris I had to deal with the desktop being offset to
the left. Existing modelines are ignored.
Nvidia doesn't provide a utility for adjusting the display and good old
xvidtune is no longer usable (in Solaris' case trying to run it gives me
the error message: "Please install the program before using"
Someone will have to explain that one to me).
Had to create a uniquely(sp?) named modeline such as 1280x1024_60_2
based on my existing modeline for Slackware.
Then used the same info on Solaris to center it up.
Uddawise it all works fine now.
Marc |
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Ian
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:36 am Post subject:
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Marc D. Williams wrote:
| Quote: | Had to create a uniquely(sp?) named modeline such as 1280x1024_60_2
based on my existing modeline for Slackware.
Then used the same info on Solaris to center it up.
What happens if you remove all modelines and let the driver uses your |
monitor's EDID data?
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Ian Collins. |
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KarlD
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:33 am Post subject:
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Paul wrote:
| Quote: | Couldn't say for sure on the FX series, but I know there is an NV25 driver
built in (autodetected for my Ti4600) as well as two other drivers for
NVidia.
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Thanks for your input.
On Sun's HCL, it says "OS Built-In Driver" on the driver name for the
FX 5500 so maybe that means that the driver is included in later
Solaris releases from 1/06 and gets auto-detected at installation.
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/components/details/1387.html
Really want to favor companies that are more open in providing drivers
for non-MS OS. That's why I was considering Nvidia.
Solaris 10 release 06/06 is supposed to come out very soon. Will
probably
wait for that and do an OS re-install before installing the card. |
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Paul
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| Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 5:10 pm Post subject:
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Whenever I have an issue with 'offset' display, the first thing I try is
a different refresh rate. Better than 3/4 the time, using 75 or 80Hz
refresh instead of 60Hz will fix things right up. You also get a wee bit
higher 'framerate', especially on any programs that "wait for vertical
sync", which is usually the default
And, of course, if you have flourescent lighting, a non '60Hz*integer'
refresh rate will tend to be easier on the eyes since it avoids
'beat frequencies' when the screen and your flourescent are both
refreshing at 60 Hz but slightly out of phase.
(or worse, 180 degrees out of phase)
If you want a better, easier to see, demonstration of this idea,
watch any TV show where they have computer screens running in
the picture. Unless they have genlocked the screens to the camera,
you'll see a rather obvious 'band' scrolling (usually top to bottom)
on the computer screens.
Back in the dot-com days, we actually tested this out by having
20 of our people use either 60Hz or 85Hz refresh and report
on how they felt after 4 hours (morning till lunch, and then
after lunch till 'official' quitting time)
The _real_ results turned out to be that the 85Hz people usually left
2 hours after the 60hz people. (Let us hope there aren't any 'suits' reading
this)
TTYL
Paul
"Marc D. Williams" <marcdw@charter.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | * KarlD wrote, On 06/16/06 13:44:
Was planning to buy a new graphics card for a home built system
and I was thinking about the Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 AGP card.
Earlier I've only used the VIA integrated graphics that came on
the board.
Anyone has any experience in installing the drivers for that card
or similar nvidia cards in Solaris 10? I suppose I need to download
drivers from nvidia and switch over to the Xorg server in stead of
Xsun. It is listed as supported both in the Solairs HCL list and in
the "nvidia Quadro" driver readme file.
Does the Solaris driver also support accessing the integrated
TV encoder included on the FX 5500 card?
I've got it working okay with FX 5200.
I had issues with the last two nvidia drivers and after much heartache
and forum posting I found a simple solution.
If after installing the drivers and rebooting you find your system
locking up when X tries to start add the following to the Device
section of xorg.conf
Option "NvAGP" "0"
In both Linux and Solaris I had to deal with the desktop being offset to
the left. Existing modelines are ignored.
Nvidia doesn't provide a utility for adjusting the display and good old
xvidtune is no longer usable (in Solaris' case trying to run it gives me
the error message: "Please install the program before using"
Someone will have to explain that one to me).
Had to create a uniquely(sp?) named modeline such as 1280x1024_60_2
based on my existing modeline for Slackware.
Then used the same info on Solaris to center it up.
Uddawise it all works fine now.
Marc |
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Ian
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| Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject:
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Paul wrote:
Please don't top post...
| Quote: | Whenever I have an issue with 'offset' display, the first thing I try is
a different refresh rate. Better than 3/4 the time, using 75 or 80Hz
refresh instead of 60Hz will fix things right up.
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The current nVidia driver should be able to detect the optimum settings
for your monitor without falling back to a modeline entry. Assuming
your monitor is able to provide the EDID data.
All I have in my xorg.conf is the required resolution and colour depth.
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<news@buffy.sighup.org
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:39 pm Post subject:
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Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | The current nVidia driver should be able to detect the optimum settings
for your monitor without falling back to a modeline entry. Assuming
your monitor is able to provide the EDID data.
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Does anybody have any clue as to why the nvidia latest driver hangs my Sol10
system (with GeForce4 420 Go hardware) on reboot? Google tells me that a
few other people have the same problem but none of the suggested fixes work.
The nv driver works fine, but I need OpenGL. |
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Marc D. Williams
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:24 am Post subject:
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* Ian Collins wrote, On 06/16/06 21:36:
| Quote: | Marc D. Williams wrote:
Had to create a uniquely(sp?) named modeline such as 1280x1024_60_2
based on my existing modeline for Slackware.
Then used the same info on Solaris to center it up.
What happens if you remove all modelines and let the driver uses your
monitor's EDID data?
Sorry for the late reply. Been fighting with putting on OS (any) on an |
old Dell Inspiron.
In Solaris' case I didn't have any existing modelines. The nv driver
centered things up pretty well.
In the other post Paul mentioned the refresh rate thing but for me
that wouldn't work as I'm driving my 17" CRT at the stated max
of 1280x1024, 60Hz. The monitor is starting to flake on me anyway so
I don't want to mess with any other settings before I can afford
a new one. :-)
Marc |
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KarlD
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| Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:30 am Post subject:
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Thanks for all the information,
just wanted to give an update on my nvidia graphics card
installation and Solaris 10 x86 06/06.
Graphics card: GeForceFX 5500, AGP 8X/256 MB
System: Home assembled Athlon XP (32-bit), FoxConn 400M01
motherboard with VIA VT8235/VT8237 Chipset
I did a new OS install and found that the GUI installer for
Solaris 10 seems to use Xsun whereas the installation only
provides Xorg. The included 'nv' driver was auto-selected and
worked under Xsun installation but after completed installation
and reboot using Xorg I got an image offset problem where the
image was shifted to the right with 30% of the screen area from
the left black although I could still use the screen.
There was no xorg.conf file created so I suppose xorg uses all
auto-detected data and default options. I'm using a 17" flat lcd
monitor capable of 1280x1024 resolution, 75 Hz V-Freq.
Didn't bother to investigate the nv X settings further but went
into installing the latest Nvidia driver from nvidia.com
Downloading the NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-1.0-8762.run driver
and following the README instructions worked fine.
# sh NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-1.0-8762.run
Notice that no xorg.conf file was generated at this
time. After running the xconfig utility included in
the Nvidia driver I finally got an xorg.conf file created.
# ./nvidia-xconfig
# reboot -- -r
Everything worked fine with no screen offset problem and the
resolution was correctly detected and set to 1280x1024.
I did not see any warning or error messages in the xorg
log file.
If you don't have an xorg.conf and the monitor is powered off
at reboot I wonder what mode will be used when you later
switch on the monitor. Maybe safer to have a real xorg.conf file.
The xorg.conf file generated looked very different from the one
created under Linux by the Nvidia xconfig utility on the same
system a couple of days earlier.
Part of Solaris xorg.conf:
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Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
"640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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Another thing about the installation was that there was
no driver for my ethernet LAN (VT6103 Rhine II built-in)
included in Solaris 10 so at first I was out of network
connection. Had to search in Google for drivers and found
the 'vfe' driver at http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng
which worked fine. Last time I installed Solaris 10 x86 on another
system I was also out of network driver, that time I had a
Linksys LNE100TX PCI network card and had to download the afe
driver. I also had to manually configure DHCP in both cases.
I'm aware of that I'm using a lot of non-standard components
and home assembled systems but I think something that should
be improved in Solaris is the support of more network drivers
to gain a wider popularity as a desktop/workstation OS.
At least it should have enough network drivers to make
most system run at first install under DHCP. In all Linux
installations I've done on the same systems, the network drivers
were always included and the network was up immediately after
installation. The external Solaris network drivers I've used
are all open source so I don't think it would be that hard,
from the licensing view, to include them in the OS distribution.
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KarlD
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| Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:39 am Post subject:
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Marc D. Williams wrote:
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I had issues with the last two nvidia drivers and after much heartache
and forum posting I found a simple solution.
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In both Linux and Solaris I had to deal with the desktop being offset to
the left. Existing modelines are ignored.
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I believe I had a similar desktop screen offset problem with my
FX 5500 using the default 'nv' driver included in Solaris but it went
away after installing the latest nvidia driver from nvidia.com (See
my post below)
/Karl |
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