On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:25 PM, ken mays<maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > --- 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
Hi Ken. I would like to join Edward what you are talking about? Mesa's userland DRI or kernel-side's DRM? Which "limits are you pushing"? Nice day, Martin
