>Duncan Groenewald wrote: >>>From what I can see most new laptops have new nvidia or ati video cards and >>>new network/wireless card which don't appear to be supported out the box by any solx86 builds. But then Fedora Core fa ils to install on my Asus A8J as well !! > >Solaris has drivers for all public nvidia cards - though for the >very newest you may need to download the newest ones from nvidia.com. > >The ATI driver issue is universal - Solaris, Linux & BSD all use the >same open source drivers from Xorg, and none of us can run on the ATI >X1x00 series. ATI finally provided support in their Linux closed >source drivers (which many Linuxes refuse to bundle) 6 months after the >cards had been on the market - you can find lots of griping about that >in Linux forums and blogs.
So the question is: these drivers come with some source for the kernel interfaces; can we glue them into the Solaris kernel and glue the X server bits in Solaris Xorg? Casper
