nvidia's closed source 3D drivers were first delivered in Solaris 10 Update 4
and Solaris Nevada build 58. Prior to that they were available as a web
download. nvidia's open source drivers only support basic 2D display, without
any 3D hardware acceleration, and steve did say "open source accelerated 3d
device support".
The closed drivers are not included in Project Indiana, aka
"OpenSolaris Developer Preview", because the license did not allow
redistribution when that was built. That has since changed, so they
may be included in the upcoming Developer Preview 2. (Whether or not
they're on the LiveCD or just in the repo is TBD, depending on how full
the CD is and resolving the GNOME font size issues.)
-alan-
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
>>>>
>>>>
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