On 02/22/11 08:46 AM, Erik Trimble wrote:
> On 2/22/2011 8:28 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 02/22/11 07:47 AM, Erik Trimble wrote:
>>> If you care about 3D, don't use the Sandy Bridge or Bulldozer on-die GPUs.
>>> Get
>>> a add-in graphics card. They're better supported all around. Both AMD and
>>> (particularly) Nvidia have good Solaris drivers for most of their add-in
>>> card
>>> product line nowdays.
>> No, mostly just nvidia. For AMD/ATI we currently only just pass through the
>> open source 2D driver, without the support provided by the DRI driver in
>> other
>> OS'es for Kernel Modesetting (KMS) or hardware acceleration
> Thanks for the correction, Alan.
>
> I had thought we'd added support for KMS, but, obviously, you know better
> than I.
Not for AMD/ATI. KMS is work in progress for Intel graphics (a joint project
of Intel & Oracle, part of our ongoing partnership), but not yet integrated,
nor has any KMS support for anything but Intel graphics been done.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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