[indiana-discuss] nvidia driver 177.80 spoils fast reboot

[John Martin]

Antonello Cruz wrote:
> Trying fast reboot on my Dell XPS M1330 equipped with a GeForce 8400M 
> GS and running OpenSolaris build 100, doesn't work if I am using the 
> latest 177.80 nvidia driver. It does work if I am using the 173.14.12 
> nvidia driver.
>
> I am running the latest BIOS (A12) and the fix for
> '6767575 uhci_quiesce() should clear status bits' that Sherry provided 
> me.
>
> This is weird because one of the items on the release notes for the 
> nvidia driver 177.80 was to 'Add support for quiesce(9E) (6750084)'.
>
> Is this a known issue, is someone else seeing this?
>
The 177.80 driver delivered to b100 does deliver quiesce support
but there were some platform/GPU specific failures fixed in b101.
Grab the updated 177.80 driver delivered to b101 at

   http://solaris-x86.eng/nVIDIA/NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-177.80-xVM.run