Thanks everyone! I stopped at best buy and got a GeForce 8400 GS and it's awesome! I have to admit, it's making me smile:)
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixconsole at yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: John Martin <[email protected]> To: Octave Orgeron <unixconsole at yahoo.com> Cc: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM>; OpenSolaris X Window System List <xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org>; Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org>; OpenSolaris Desktop Discuss <desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:35:45 PM Subject: Re: [xwin-discuss] nvidia support for OpenSolaris Octave Orgeron wrote: > Thanks Alan! > > So if I buy a card off the linux list, it'll work okay and I'll have 3d accel > right? > In general, yes. Some features, such as those needed for OpenGL 3.0 require G8x or higher. With the current R180 driver, OpenGL will report version 3.0.0 on G8x or higher GPUs, 2.1.2 for older hardware.
