On Jan 25, 2008 11:31 AM, Brian Nitz <Brian.Nitz at sun.com> wrote: > 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.
Lau did say *open source* 3d :) > 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 > >>> > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> desktop-discuss mailing list > >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
