Serge Coche wrote:
> Anyone know that the standard Solaris 10 kernel does not support the direct
> rendering (DRI).
Right.
> Also i recently saw a Opensolaris screenshot with FlightGear, witch needs
the DRI : right ?
From what I can see at flightgear.org it does not require DRI, simply OpenGL.
> My questions are :
> 1) How it is possible ?
There are several ways to get OpenGL for Solaris x86 today, none of which
require DRI:
- Mesa - software-only, non-accelerated, but works on everything.
Included in recent Solaris Express builds or download the open source
and build it yourself.
- Utah-GLX - hardware accelerated open source OpenGL, but I don't know
the current status (their web page mentions a migration to Mesa taking
place in June 2003 as current status) - http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/
- nVidia - hardware-accelerated drivers & OpenGL from nVidia for their
cards. http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
- XiG AcceleratedX - commercial replacement X server with hardware
acceleration for a variety of cards. http://www.xig.com/
> 2) Can i build myself an Opensolaris kernel with a DRI entry ?
If you port DRI to it yourself. There's already a team in Sun's kernel
group working on this though, so it would be duplicated effort. This will
allow use of the Mesa/DRI drivers for open source hardware accelerated
OpenGL on a number of cards. It still won't be as accelerated as any of
the proprietary/closed source solutions though, since the video chipset
vendors don't release all the information necessary to do so.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
