Alan - very cool. Any updates on ATI Radeon support for 3D accel drivers on x86. Would like to try this out but am on a acer ferrari 3400 with ATI Radeon 9700.
Thanks, JR Alan Coopersmith wrote: > If you've already bored of testing the JDS4/Vermillion packages, and > looking > for something pretty to look at this weekend (in the US, this 3-day-long > weekend) a new source drop of Solaris xscreensaver is available for > testing > as well. > > It upgrades the xscreensaver base source from 4.05 to 5.0 (though > in both cases, we heavily modify the sources, including providing a > gtk-based unlock dialog the upstream maintainer frowns upon) and adds > the "Really Slick Screensavers" to provide more "sizzle". > > The GL ones, including the really slick screensavers, are best viewed > on a > machine with accelerated OpenGL - either a SPARC with a 3D series > graphics > card, or an x86 with an nVidia card & the nvidia accelerated > driver/OpenGL > from http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html . > [BTW - nvidia posted the new 8762 drivers there this week if you have > older > ones. Note that the nvidia OpenGL won't work on Nevada builds 39-41 > though > unless you replace /lib/ld.so.1 with the one from Nevada build 38.] > > You can find the source and build instructions in the xss5.tar.bz2 > tarball in this week's OpenSolaris X Consolidation source drop for > build 41: > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/x/downloads/20060516/ > > (The main source tarball there includes the first release of our > xscreensaver-4.05 release currently used in Solaris.) > > A previous update to xscreensaver-4.24 has had a couple of weeks testing, > but this resync of that to xscreensaver-5.0 is mere hours old, so it's > still a bit unrefined and definitely not fully tested. However, if you > find any bugs, please let me know - these will probably integrate into > Nevada in a few more builds (the JDS team & I need to work with the SFW > folks to deliver a newer ImageMagick first). >
