Rainer Orth wrote:
> 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.
The SMF support for selecting an X server should stay - I have no plans to
remove it since it is useful for selecting between the remaining X servers
(Xorg, Xvnc, Xvfb), but Xsun will probably disappear from the list in the
Xserver script at some point.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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