Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD graphics for OI?

2018-05-02 Thread srvr_mnk
https://xkcd.com/1508/ SM On 02.05.2018 02:32, Till Wegmüller wrote: Hi Well not that long, but definetly somewhere in that range I'm affraid. Unless somebody sneakily started a porting effort. Greetings Till On 02.05.2018 07:25, srvr_...@srvr-tmpl.ikhider.com wrote: Hello, I know there ar

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD graphics for OI?

2018-05-02 Thread Michal Nowak
On 05/02/2018 07:25 AM, srvr_...@srvr-tmpl.ikhider.com wrote: Hello, I know there are graphics drivers for Nvidea hardware, but my hardware is AMD. What is the status for AMD grahics drivers on OI? Is it one of those long-term, "one day...when GNU HURD dominates the marketplace on consumer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on small x86 systems

2018-05-02 Thread James
On 01/05/2018 23:09, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: On 1 May 2018 at 21:14, Jerry Kemp wrote: I've been looking for some small x86/x64 systems like this to run Open Indiana on, for personal/hobby purposes. ... Another thing is that this HW has 128GB eMMc so I'm not sure is it will be possible to use

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana-discuss Digest, Vol 94, Issue 2

2018-05-02 Thread Bob Pasken
Still having no luck attempting to run OI-hipster on a Sun Ultra-40m2 and on a Sun Sunfire X4600. On both machines I get the same PCI error initialization error messages at boot and then the system hangs. Tomass Soone had a partail solution for the X4600 back a few months ago. I hoped that a co

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD graphics for OI?

2018-05-02 Thread srvr_mnk
How does one fire up the VESA driver? Would ATI/AMD contribute to provide some kind of drivers if asked? There are two drivers for AMD (that I am aware of) MESA and AMD GPU PRO. The latter is needed for video production on Linux. MESA is not enough, and may be okay for gaming, but not video pr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD graphics for OI?

2018-05-02 Thread ken mays via openindiana-discuss
Till mentions: Unless somebody sneakily started a porting effort." See: https://www.illumos.org/issues/8069 I ported the AMDGPU driver a few years ago. The main AMDGPU-Pro components are closed source. So, no support otherwise... ~K On Wednesday, May 2, 2018, 11:42:07 AM PDT, wrote:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD graphics for OI?

2018-05-02 Thread Jerry Kemp
Thank you Ken, I had no idea that this existed. So would I be correct in stating that I could load up OI on a system, along with one of the supported AMD frame buffers and your drivers, and, thru those drivers + OpenCL, could use the GPU's to process the computational type of data that people f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD graphics for OI?

2018-05-02 Thread srvr_mnk
If this is the case, we may need to look into getting things like Ardour, Blender and Cinelerra ported over as well. Then I can **FINALLY** get rid of Windows and make OI my primary audio/video production machine. I am not smart enough to port those programs over yet...but the idea of discar