Jensen Lee <hayd...@haydude.org> writes:

> It is a shame that Sun does not support XVR-500, XVR-1000, Expert 3D and 
> several other graphic cards on OpenSolaris because of copyright/NDA/patent 
> issues. 
> 
> I think that Sun should make an effort to liase with 3D Labs to open their 
> drivers source to allow for implementation into OpenSolaris.
> 
> In the meantime could Sun at least provide binary drivers for these cards, 
> even as separate downloads, to allow those like me with legacy Sun 
> workstations to install, use and contribute to OpenSolaris?

True.  In the meantime (which will probably last forever ;-), I'll take the
last SVR4 packages from SX:CE build 130 and use them (together with Xsun)
on my Blade 1500 with XVR-600.  It may require some hacking since I expect
the SMF support for switching between Xorg and Xsun to go away, but
certainly doable, and much better than turning my desktop into a brick.

        Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
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