Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fw: Re: ATI radeon hd 6850 gnome issue

2011-03-29 Thread ken mays
Hi Alan, You are correct in that you didn't mention KMS forthcoming for the AMD Radeon GPUs, only KMS support for Intel GPUs for Solaris 11. Nothing officially stated anywhere here. We have Nvidia 260.19.44 drivers and legacy/beta drivers for the Nvidia GPUs that work on OI and that is good e

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fw: Re: ATI radeon hd 6850 gnome issue

2011-03-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 03/29/11 01:52 PM, ken mays wrote: > Alan mentioned KMS is forthcoming, No, I didn't. As far as I know, no one is working on KMS of any flavor for illumos or openindiana, so I would never say it's forthcoming without hearing that someone had stepped up to do it. And while I can't speak to una

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fw: Re: ATI radeon hd 6850 gnome issue

2011-03-29 Thread ken mays
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fw: Re: ATI radeon hd 6850 gnome issue

2011-03-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 03/29/11 11:53 AM, Mikolaj Walkiewicz wrote: > (EE) RADEON(0): Chipset: "AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series" (ChipID = 0x6739) > requires KMS If it really requires KMS, then someone will need to spend a few months porting a KMS-capable kernel driver. You really are better off with nvidia graphics for S

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fw: Re: ATI radeon hd 6850 gnome issue

2011-03-29 Thread Mikolaj Walkiewicz
Yep, unfortunately. Thanks for your time and help I will report that. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > >Apostolos, > >I configured as > you told, but I also added --disable-kms to options. I finally managed > to > > >install the drivers which is huge progress and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fw: Re: ATI radeon hd 6850 gnome issue

2011-03-29 Thread Mikolaj Walkiewicz
usr/lib/xorg/amd64" \ > ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-xorg-module-dir=/usr/lib/xorg/modules > > Try this and let me know who it goes. > > A.S > > -- > Apostolos Syropoulos > Xanthi, Greece > http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/~apostolo > http:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fw: Re: ATI radeon hd 6850 gnome issue

2011-03-29 Thread Mikolaj Walkiewicz
I got the following error while using gmake: "ld: fatal: file /usr/lib/xorg/libdrm.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 ld: fatal: file processing errors. No output written to .libs/radeon_drv.so collect2: ld returned 1 exit status gmake[2]: *** radeon_drv.la] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fw: Re: ATI radeon hd 6850 gnome issue

2011-03-28 Thread Mikolaj Walkiewicz
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:51 AM, ken mays wrote: > Mikolaj, > > Actually, the gtk-window-decorator command is in the /usr/bin (/bin) > directory. > > Xorg ATI radeon 6.14.1 driver under build review for OI. No promises! > > ~ Ken Mays > It would be great :) -- Best regards/Pozdrawiam, Miko

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fw: Re: ATI radeon hd 6850 gnome issue

2011-03-28 Thread ken mays
Fw: Re: ATI radeon hd 6850 gnome issue > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" > Date: Sunday, March 27, 2011, 4:47 PM > Ken, > > > "load into GNOME, go to Prefereneces-Themes > you'll see a tab with 'Theme details'. That will bring you > to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fw: Re: ATI radeon hd 6850 gnome issue

2011-03-28 Thread Mikolaj Walkiewicz
"Well since it is know that only the nvidia cards and the Intel-thing work, I just wonder why people who intend to use Solaris buy ATI graphics cards?" Maybe because besides Solaris they got other operating systems and maybe for multimedia/games purposes ? ... ATI card was the best optimal choice

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fw: Re: ATI radeon hd 6850 gnome issue

2011-03-28 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
>>"Alan (from Oracle) mentioned the ATI/AMD Radeon HD 6xxx are 'unsupported' >>on Solaris 11 and OpenIndiana_148 at this time. Heed the warning!" > >So that's not a good news. Well since it is know that only the nvidia cards and the Intel-thing work, I just wonder why people who intend to use

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fw: Re: ATI radeon hd 6850 gnome issue

2011-03-27 Thread Mikolaj Walkiewicz
Ken, "load into GNOME, go to Prefereneces-Themes you'll see a tab with 'Theme details'. That will bring you to Window frame management. Make your modifications and test." It doesn't work, even though I change to different frame layouts nothing happens, I still don't have frames around the window