Albert Lee wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
>
>> It sounded like Compiz isn't quite ready (particularly given the
>> limited device support) for integration into the Live CD at the
>> moment. However, I would expect it to be made available through a
>> network repository in the near term.
>>
>
> The device support is only limited by the devices we currently have 3D
> acceleration for, and from talking to Alan that's expected to improve
> soon.
Indiana will initially only have 3-D acceleration for Intel graphics
chipsets out of the box. nVidia will require downloading their
Solaris driver from nvidia.com or sun.com, (or possibly a Sun-hosted,
but not-publically-mirrored repository - I don't know if such a
thing will be set up for 3rd party components Sun has rights to
redistribute itself, but not grant unlimited redistribution rights
for). Porting of the open source ATI DRI drivers for the R300 &
R400 series Radeon is in progress, but I don't know how soon they'll
be ready (I'd love it if we could have an experimental repository
for things like this not yet ready for integration and get teams to
use it more successfully than we've convinced them to put work on
opensolaris.org so far). ATI R500 & R600 are TBD, based on AMD
deciding how much of the 3D specs they will release to the open
source community.
There's a bunch more DRI drivers for other chipsets, but they're
waiting for someone to care enough about those chipsets to want
to make them work on OpenSolaris - any volunteers? (Of course,
once we get ATI, nVidia & Intel, we'll have ~95% of the current
x86 graphics market, so that may be enough.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
