2008/6/2 John Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Glenn Lagasse wrote:
>>
>> The problem is that these GPU's are in use on *non* sun hardware which
>> people are trying to install OpenSolaris 2008.05 on.
>>
>>
>>
> Understood, but the only data we have for Solaris attach rates for old GPUs
> (G3x and earlier) is for Sun branded systems.  This number was really low.
> Solaris attach rates ramped up with the introduction of G4x and higher GPUs
> for the PCI-E based systems and this was several years ago.  G3x and prior
> GPUs are fairly old.

I think you'll find Ubuntu's "popularity contest" information helpful here:

http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_inst.gz

#<name> is the package name;
#<inst> is the number of people who installed this package;
#<vote> is the number of people who use this package regularly;
#<old> is the number of people who installed, but don't use this package
#        regularly;
#<recent> is the number of people who upgraded this package recently;
#<no-files> is the number of people whose entry didn't contain enough
#        information (atime and ctime were 0).
#rank name                            inst  vote   old recent no-files
(maintainer)
443   nvidia-kernel-common           566430   816 176327   142 389145
(Randall Donald)
5260  nvidia-glx-legacy               5787   805  4808   171     3 (Unknown)
1552  nvidia-glx-new                 111189 35200 70216  5736    37 (Unknown)
1898  nvidia-glx                     68381  8407 58731  1219    24
(Daniel Stone)

It would appear that a sizeable chunk of Ubuntu users still rely on
the legacy driver.

Mind you this doesn't include users who did not participate in the
package survey, and it doesn't include users that download the legacy
drivers directly from nVidia.

Still, I think it's useful...

-- 
Shawn Walker
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