Solaris 10 x86 (10/08) and an nVidia Quadro4

Hi all!
I have an nVidia Quadro4 AGP graphics card that originally came with the box that I installed Solaris 10 x86 and Xandros 4.5 OCE on. I didn't have DVI to VGA cables at the time so I went with an ATI 32MB Radeon 7000.
I know have the needed cables and would like to use this card. One question, nVidia lists their drivers for the x64/x86 Solaris 10. I have a P4 2GHz box-would this driver work? I am not above doing a reinstall as I can recreate everything I need on the box. Any pointers in this area would be most helpful.
Regards,
James

It should. You probably won't need to download anything from nVidia either, what's included in Solaris 10 x86 10/08 will probably suffice for most uses.
Tim

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INTHOST
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passwd: files
group: files
hosts: files
ipnodes: files
networks: files
protocols: files
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ethers: files
netmasks: files
bootparams: files
publickey: files
netgroup: files
automount: files
aliases: files
services: files
printers: user files
auth_attr: files
prof_attr: files
project: files
tnrhtp: files
tnrhdb: files
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protocols: files
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netmasks: files
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services: files
printers: user files
auth_attr: files
prof_attr: files
project: files
tnrhtp: files
tnrhdb: files
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Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Nortel IPSECSHM Adapter - Packet Scheduler Min
iport
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IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
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enabled) and then plug the web site�s ip address into
the Solaris/Mozilla browser. So it appears that I
haven�t been successful at pointing the Solaris x86
at a DNS server to resolve the DNS name.You can either copy nsswitch.dns to nsswitch.conf, or you can modify nsswitch.conf so that 'dns' is used for hostname lookups.
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package and it requires a static ip address for this
Solaris x86 server. If the ip address changes, it�ll
stop working by design and require that I reacquire
the license file. When connecting through this
Netgear router, how do I lock this Solaris v10 x86
server into a specific ip address? (the ip address
floats presently when cycling my PC�s on/off)
presently, and assume the Solaris box will too,
usually through an ip range of 192.168.1.<1 through
5>One method is setting the router so that the server's MAC address is tied to a specific IP.
Otherwise you can edit /etc/hostname.<interface> and place a static address there, forgoing DHCP services from the router. You may want the address to appear outside the router's DHCP range.
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Solaris 10 x86 and Adaptec 2400a

Hello,
Are there any plans to add support for Adaptec 2400a (IDE RAID Controller) to Solaris 10 x86?
Thank you,
Jakob

Hello Jakob,
this is the wrong forum because it's about Sun Hardware and only user-to-user.
I would suggest that
you use your service-plan and contact Sun
or
join the Solarisx86 group on Yahoo, browse the previous posts and then re-post on this maillist.
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Btw. even the RAID functionality of the integrated RAID controller of Sun x64 systems isn't supported under Solaris 10 (only RHEL) ...
Michael

Networking changes between Solaris 10 x86 10/08 (u6) and previous versions?

Solaris Community:
We have a J2SE CORBA-based application (that uses the default Sun ORB) that has run without problems on Solaris 8, 9, and 10 on both SPARC and, more recently, X86 platforms. Upgrading our client side machine (X4100 M2 Opteron platform) from Solaris 10 x86 5/08 (u5) to Solaris 10 x86 10/08 (u6) has resulted in threading or socket contention issues that we have not experienced previously. Using Live Upgrade, we can quickly go back to the u5 install on the client machine .... and the problems go away .... going back to u6, however, and the problems begin to show almost immediately. Our Java code base is identical as is the version of the JDK (1.5.0_16), so it would appear that there must be an underlying change to socket, networking, or threading behavior between these two versions of Solaris.
Thus far, I've not been unable to find details of changes either in the networking support or the threading model that might explain this .... or course, I don't have great expertise in these areas.
I've tried to use 'ndd /dev/tcp SOME_PARAMETER' for all of the /dev/tcp parameters returned by 'ndd /dev/tcp \?' to try to see if there are underlying changes in the /dev/tcp parameters .... but have not found any differences between Solaris 10 u5 and u6.
Can anyone point me to resources that would discuss changes between Solaris 10 u5 or u6 that might explain the problems that we've encountered? Or, alternatively, other system parameters that I could check that might explain changes in either TCP socket or threading behavior?
Thanks for your input,
John

I have a vague memory of someone reporting something similar which turned out to be due to a solaris feature called tcp_fusion.
To check whether thats your problem or not try the following.
Add following line in the /etc/system file.
set ip:do_tcp_fusion = 0
Once the /etc/system file is updated, it will be necessary to restart the system before the workaround will take effect.

Solaris 10 x86 (10/08) and an nVidia Quadro4

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