[illumos-Developer] Nvidia driver fixes required

[Garrett D'Amore]

Serial over USB works, but quite probably not for console access
required for kernel debugging.  I've not tested it, and at the moment I
don't have one.

  - Garrett

On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 12:21 -0500, Paul Gress wrote:
> On 12/17/10 11:40 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > I wonder if this is the root cause for my problem with a Quadro FX 880M;
> > I often have a difficult time getting the Xserver to initialize -- it
> > "hangs" when it goes into graphics mode sometimes... as I don't have a
> > serial port on this laptop, I have been unable to debug it.
> > 
> 
> When I used a "USB to Serial Port Adapter" on my laptop, it showed up
> as a serial port.  Basically I used a serial port version of a
> Spaceball (used in CAD as a 3D mouse) and then used the adapter and it
> worked referencing /dev/term/b.  My laptop had no serial ports.
> 
> Paul
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