Hmm, I thought Nvidia went in a long time ago. I must have been thinking 
Solaris 10?  Did NVidia's weird license prevent drivers from being 
delivered with Opensolaris?  That's good news about ATI and Intel though. 

Stephen Lau wrote:
> OpenSolaris has had accelerated 3d for Intel devices for quite a while 
> already :)
> In fact, it's the only open source accelerated 3d device support in 
> OpenSolaris right now (AFAIK)
>
> cheers,
> steve
>
> Brian Nitz wrote:
>> Erwann,
>>
>> Thanks this is excellent news!  Between ATI and Nvidia chipsets, we 
>> must be getting close to majority coverage of the accelerated 
>> graphics hardware on modern PCs.  Are there accelerated Solaris 
>> drivers for 3d acceleration on Intel chipsets yet?
>> Once they are stable, these drivers should improve performance even 
>> on desktop without compiz.
>>
>> Erwann Chenede wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi All,
>>>      I've updated my compiz easy install bundle and my configuration 
>>> check script to support
>>>    the ATI radeon driver developed by Minskey.
>>>
>>>    So far it's only been tested on Ferrari 4000 laptop.
>>>
>>>    Details can be found here : 
>>> http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/entry/ati_support_for_compiz_easy
>>>
>>>       Cheers,
>>>
>>>             Erwann
>>>
>>>     
>>
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