Mikael Lindsten wrote:
>> There is no support in the OpenSolaris ATI DRI module
>> for any
>> Radeon HD cards, or any card newer than the Radeon
>> x700 or so.
>> Fixing that requires porting an updated version of
>> the ATI DRI
>> module from the community and integrating to ON - but
>> I'm not
>> sure if the support from upstream for HD 3200 is
>> stable yet,
>> since I've not been following it.
>
> Does this mean that OpenSolaris won't be usable on my laptop for an
> undetermined time?
I didn't say that - 2D support should be fine without DRI, just not 3D
acceleration.
> Do you guys have any idea of how long it might take before there is a driver
> that works?
You'd have to ask the engineers working on it - they might be found in
driver-discuss or xwin-discuss. I have no idea what their schedule is,
or what level of hardware will be supported.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
