Just an update to this: 1. This book is also an excellent reference: Shader X5 Advanced Rendering Techniques with CDROM by Wolfgang Engel
I just received word from Sun that a newer driver than the current Nvidia 100.14.11 is in the works and available very soon. One thing to note is the use of large textures (8K x 8K) on certain graphic cards and intensive graphic apps like Flight Simulator X w/SP1 (tested under Windows). The Intel G965 and G35 device drivers under Mesa may need tweaking for multitexturing of large textures and advanced shading techniques. The XVR-2500 and Quadro FX 5500/5600 can handle the advanced shader programming tasks - with the Quadro FX 5500/5600 being very impressive in overall tasks under Solaris x86/x64. The commercial OpenGL drivers for the XVR-2500 under SPARC need a bit of updating in comparison to the device drivers for the Quadro FX cards. Mesa 7.0 is a viable complimentary solution on both SPARC/x86 OpenSolaris distros for now as Sun OpenGL is updated to support the OpenGL 2.1 spec or possibly superceded... ? ~ Ken Mays This message posted from opensolaris.org
