Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Albert Lee wrote: >> The offical NVIDIA driver that installs with SXDE should support your >> video card, but the driver used by the installer in graphical mode is >> the open 'nv' driver and that isn't updated as often. (It probably saves >> space in the RAM disk.). SXDE should work fine if you do a regular >> text-based install without installing the driver in addition. > > Yes - when we added nvidia's official driver to Solaris we looked at using > it during install too, but the added size would have made the RAM disk size > need to grow and possibly bumped up the memory requirements we were already > very sensitive about. The slim install work for Project Indiana has made > it possible to use the official nvidia driver during install, so there is > hope for a better install experience in the future. >
Really, the future is here now. Use Indiana Preview 2 when we push it (or use the test image that was sent out last week) and enjoy the future already. Dave
