Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-08-03 Thread Jon Trulson
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:01 -0600, Jon Trulson wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: ken mays wrote: http://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/linux.html#2 We also actively assist developers in the Open Source community with their work,

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-08-01 Thread Jon Trulson
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, [UTF-8] Ché Kristo wrote: You mention XiG (Xi Graphics), do they even exist anymore? Try http://www.xig.com/ and note that it times out... Yeah... we exist :) We just had a web hosting provider that screwed up a data center move so badly our server hasn't been seen

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-08-01 Thread Jon Trulson
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: ken mays wrote: http://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/linux.html#2 We also actively assist developers in the Open Source community with their work, so if you absolutely require an open source driver for your graphics card, we can recommend using

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-08-01 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:01 -0600, Jon Trulson wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: ken mays wrote: http://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/linux.html#2 We also actively assist developers in the Open Source community with their work, so if you absolutely require an open

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-30 Thread Ché Kristo
You mention XiG (Xi Graphics), do they even exist anymore? Try http://www.xig.com/ and note that it times out... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Edward McAuley wrote: Is anyone aware of a source who has drivers for the ATI X1900 that will work on Solaris 10? The only possible source I know of is the currently very-much-experimental and under heavy development xf86-video-avivo drivers being produced by the Xorg community reverse

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Orvar Korvar wrote: True. ATI's has drivers only for Windows OS. ATI has drivers for Linux as well, though they're usually behind the Windows drivers. (For instance, the X1000 series was supported on Windows about 6 months before they got a Linux driver out for it.) -- -Alan

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ken mays wrote: The ATI v8.39.4 release of device drivers for Solaris supporting the ATI X1900 series graphic cards??? As far as I know, ATI has no plans to release Solaris drivers themselves. ATI mentioned they support the open source developers wanting to work on ATI video device drivers

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-30 Thread ken mays
ken mays wrote: The ATI v8.39.4 release of device drivers for Solaris supporting the ATI X1900 series graphic cards??? As far as I know, ATI has no plans to release Solaris drivers themselves. ATI mentioned they support the open source developers wanting to work on ATI video device drivers

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ken mays wrote: http://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/linux.html#2 We also actively assist developers in the Open Source community with their work, so if you absolutely require an open source driver for your graphics card, we can recommend using drivers from the DRI project, Utah-GLX project,

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-30 Thread Edward McAuley
Thank you Alan. I am somewhat confused regarding their approach. They are saying the are going to deliver these drivers, on one hand, but on the other hand they are claiming they cannot because they don't own all of the IP (that part of the development efforts are owned and copyrighted by

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-30 Thread Brian Gupta
On 7/30/07, Edward McAuley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Alan. I am somewhat confused regarding their approach. They are saying the are going to deliver these drivers, on one hand, but on the other hand they are claiming they cannot because they don't own all of the IP (that part of

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-30 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 09:32 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Edward McAuley wrote: Is anyone aware of a source who has drivers for the ATI X1900 that will work on Solaris 10? The only possible source I know of is the currently very-much-experimental and under heavy development

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-30 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 12:40 -0700, Edward McAuley wrote: Thank you Alan. I am somewhat confused regarding their approach. They are saying the are going to deliver these drivers, on one hand, but on the other hand they are claiming they cannot because they don't own all of the IP (that part

[osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-29 Thread Edward McAuley
Hi folks, Is anyone aware of a source who has drivers for the ATI X1900 that will work on Solaris 10? Alternatively does anyone know of someone who has a build plan specifying an acceptable version of X11 or xorg, the proper libraries, etc., and maybe a make procedure, to build a driver from

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-29 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 19:58 -0700, Edward McAuley wrote: Hi folks, Is anyone aware of a source who has drivers for the ATI X1900 that will work on Solaris 10? Alternatively does anyone know of someone who has a build plan specifying an acceptable version of X11 or xorg, the proper

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-29 Thread Orvar Korvar
True. ATI's has drivers only for Windows OS. Nvidia is the way to go with Unixes, Solaris and Linux and such. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-29 Thread Ché Kristo
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 03:43 -0700, Orvar Korvar wrote: True. ATI's has drivers only for Windows OS. Nvidia is the way to go with Unixes, Solaris and Linux and such. Its sad though, i would have though a good you scratch my back if I scratch yours' would be in order given Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-29 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 04:51 -0700, Ché Kristo wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 03:43 -0700, Orvar Korvar wrote: True. ATI's has drivers only for Windows OS. Nvidia is the way to go with Unixes, Solaris and Linux and such. Its sad though, i would have though a good you

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-29 Thread ken mays
Hi folks, Is anyone aware of a source who has drivers for the ATI X1900 that will work on Solaris 10? Alternatively does anyone know of someone who has a build plan specifying an acceptable version of X11 or xorg, the proper libraries, etc., and maybe a make procedure, to build a driver from

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-29 Thread Orvar Korvar
Oh, now I hear that ATI has newly collected a device driver programming team that is larger than NVidia's! I think that when AMD took over control, they started this but it takes time. If these rumours are correct, we will pretty soon see good ATI drivers to all Unix, I believe. or ...to all

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-29 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 05:19 -0700, Orvar Korvar wrote: Oh, now I hear that ATI has newly collected a device driver programming team that is larger than NVidia's! I think that when AMD took over control, they started this but it takes time. If these rumours are correct, we will pretty soon see

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-29 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
ATI's support for Windows is crap, Linux is pathetic and Solaris is non-existant. Best advice is to be happy with the 2D Xorg driver or upgrade the video card. Matthew Actually, from our own experience, the Solaris version of the VESA driver is quite decent. We have a couple of ATI

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-29 Thread Edward McAuley
Thanks Ken. I'll track this stuff down and if I find joy, I'll come back with the answers and procedures, in detail. ejm This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org