On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Robin Axelsson <gu99r...@student.chalmers.se > wrote:
> On 2012-02-04 17:32, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> On 02/ 4/12 05:03 AM, Nikola M. wrote: >> >>> On 02/ 1/12 05:51 PM, Robin Axelsson wrote: >>> >>>> I'm using an ATI Radeon Juniper card (HD5770) and I reported a little >>>> over a >>>> year ago that the screen went black as Xorg starts when using the radeon >>>> driver on OI 148. The solution was to ditch the radeon driver and use >>>> the VESA >>>> driver in its stead. >>>> >>> Best thing one can do with AMD graphics on Solaris/Illumos and >>> Openindiana is to >>> get rid of it, >>> and get Nvidia graphics card that actually have proprietary binary >>> drivers for >>> Solaris/Opensolaris based OS'es. >>> >> >> For Solaris, I fully agree that the nvidia driver is the way to go for >> performance, features, & stability. For illumos-based distros, I cannot >> guarantee that nvidia's driver will always continue to work, as it does >> depend on some private interfaces of the Solaris kernel, and if those >> evolve and illumos version of gfx-private does not, it may not always >> work. (It probably will as long as older Solaris 10 releases are >> supported, >> but that's not going to be forever, though it's more likely any card you >> buy today will move to a nvidia legacy driver before the main branch drops >> Solaris 10 support.) >> >> Maybe best thing would be to bring more people to KMS Illumos >>> implementation and porting radeon and other drivers. >>> >> >> That's really the only viable way for illumos & openindiana to get and >> continue graphics driver support now. >> >> > That sounds pretty bleak to me. It's as if one is not supposed to use a > graphics card when running OpenIndiana. > > In all honesty, as for features I'm happy even if I get a crappy picture > on the card, when I boot into OI I barely use the GPU anyway. But I would > really like to mufflle that fan as the noise from it really is polluting > the (indoor) environment. > > I've never heard of 'KMS Illumos' before, what is KMS anyway and what does > it stand for? It would be great if someone could clue me in. > > If someone could give me pointers on how to compile individual drivers > from source (particularly where to (w)get that source without getting the > entire distro) on OpenIndiana and install them I could try to hack > something up. My time and experience is rather limited but I could give it > a try. I guess I could try to get a hold of the Solaris Internals book. > > > > KMS : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_mode-setting Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss