[desktop-discuss] Regression with build 60's xorg on Ultra 20?

[Rich Teer]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Xorg defaults to a 64-bit binary if you're running a 64-bit kernel on
> nv_58 and later (part of the Xorg 7.2 upgrade).   The nvidia accelerated
> driver only provides a 32-bit module in the version bundled up through
> nv_60 though, so the 64-bit Xorg falls back to the barebones VESA driver.

Aha!

> The new version of the nvidia driver, available for download from nvidia.com
> or included in nv_61 and later, includes both 32-bit & 64-bit modules.

D'oh!  I started downloading b61 over the weekend, but got terrible
performance (~50KB/sec instead of ~240KB/sec) so I gave up.  I'm
attempting another download as I type, though the performance isn't
much better...  :-(

> Alternatively, you can switch back to 32-bit Xorg with svccfg and continue
> to use your current 32-bit nvidia driver - see the instructions in the
> "Xorg 7.2 Heads Up" message at:
> 	   http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=24027&tstart=0

Thanks for the info, I might just do that (or, just install b61 and
be done with it).  I guess on amd64, the 64-bit X server has better
performance than the 32-bit one?

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