Any recommendations on Nvidia PCI-E cards with 3d for opensolaris on x64? I want to go out and buy a card today.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixconsole at yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> To: Frank Middleton <f.middleton at apogeect.com> Cc: OpenSolaris Desktop Discuss <desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:17:42 PM Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] (Open)Sol 10/nv106 on SB2000 w XVR-1200 Frank Middleton wrote: > As far as I know, for everyone who loads Solaris of any kind for SPARC, > Sun knows who they are and has their email address. I bet they all also > subscribe to the bigadmin newsletter. If I had known that someone > was doing a port of the BSD/Linux drivers, I would certainly have > volunteered to help in any way possible. Martin Bochnig has been posting to opensolaris-discuss, xwin-discuss, indiana-discuss and various other lists about it for the past few years. > The imminent demise of XSun > (how imminent is it?) would undoubtedly be an incentive for others to do > so as well! The current plans call for Solaris 10 to be the last Solaris release with Xsun in, and to never include Xsun in any OpenSolaris distro release. > Isn't there a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem here, too? AFAIK Solaris > never had support for xorg, so porting to xorg wasn't really interesting > before. Anyway, we have the chicken now, so working on the egg seems much > more worthwhile :-) The Xorg server for SPARC was added in Solaris 10 8/07, it's just not had any usable drivers released for it on Solaris 10 yet. > I'm only looking for afb and ffb. Are drivers for the OEM cards in the > BSD/Linux port (I suppose they would have been reverse engineered)? Some are: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/fox/SPARC-Xorg/ The ATI-based PGX cards work with a port of the ATI Mach64 driver used on x86 boxes for instance. > Do you know if Sun will maintain XSun in the commercial version of Solaris, > or will it go away there, too? If so, surely Sun should alert all their > customers about this; Like all other Solaris features we're planning to remove, we've done that in the standard fashion - published a notice in the Solaris 10 release notes that it might not be in future releases: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-5245/eos-36?l=en&a=view#getgg It's been there since Solaris 10 8/07 release. Future updates will add more of the SPARC graphics cards to the list of drivers not planned for going forward - right now only cg6 is listed, but more are going through the end-of-support process now. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ desktop-discuss mailing list desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
