Nvidia's drivers aren't open source... Brian Nitz 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. > 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 >>> >> >>
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