--- On Tue, 7/14/09, Frank Middleton <f.middleton at apogeect.com> wrote:
> From: Frank Middleton <f.middleton at apogeect.com>
> Subject: Re: [xwin-discuss] [driver-discuss] I would like to help porting
> To: "Ken Mays" <maybird1776 at yahoo.com>, "OpenSolaris X Window System List"
> <xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org>
> Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 10:35 AM
> On 07/13/09 10:35 AM, Ken Mays
> wrote:
>
> > The other comment I made was in approaching AMD (with
> possible Sun's
> > support) and seriously talking to them about bringing
> over the closed
> > source AMD Radeon Catalyst display drivers for
> Solaris/OpenSolaris.
>
> Good luck! The Open Source Radeon driver is currently much,
> much better than
> the proprietary Catalyst driver and has been since Fedora
> C3, the last time
> it worked properly, at least on my hardware (Mobility
> 9600). It takes them
> so long to come up with revised drivers that they are
> obsolete by the time
> they come out. It would be great if you could get AMD to
> fix the terrible
> Catalyst GUI, rationalize the bizarre aticonfig utility,
> and actually get
> the ATI drivers to work properly again, but your market is
> smaller than
> Linux and they don't seem to be very interested in Linux,
> so I wouldn't
> hold my breath. On the other hand Radeon users would have a
> huge incentive
> to use Open Solaris over Linux if the ATI drivers could be
> made to work
> as well there as they did a few years ago on Linux :-)
Frank,
Grab a copy of this CD:
http://www.genunix.org/distributions/indiana/osol-1002-118-x86.iso
Things are looking good in ATI drivers - I'm just pushing the limits...
~ Ken Mays
