-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:55:23 PDT > Von: "Stuart F. Biggar" <Stuart.Biggar at optics.Arizona.EDU> > An: xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org > Betreff: [xwin-discuss] notebooks with dual video adapters and Solaris, > Display port, etc
> Some new notebooks from Lenovo (and others I expect) have two graphics > adapters, one of which is used on battery and the other when plugged in. > The adapter can also be chosen via a hot key (at least in Windows). The > machines I've read about with this include the T500 and W500 from Lenovo. > The following is from a pdf file describing the T400/T500: > > Graphics > Integrated Intel X4500 > T400: ATI Mobile Radeon HD 3470 w/256 MB > Switchable Graphics > T500: ATI Mobile Radeon HD 3650 w/256 MB > Switchable Graphics > > The W500 has an ATI FireGL M86-GL (512 GB) > and the W700 has a Nvidia Quadro FX-2700 (512) > or a FX-3700 with 1 GB of video RAM. > > They also have "Display Port" as the video > output rather than DVI but do have VGA also. > > I wonder if this type of thing would work in Xorg in Solaris or Nevada? > > Another upside of these machines is that they > are supposed to support up to 8 GB of RAM in > a notebook. Some other Dell and HP notebooks > also list 8 GB as a possibility. Any problems > with that much RAM in a Solaris notebook with > dual-core Intel CPUs? [the W700 is supposed > to be available quad-core at some point but > I don't think it will be very affordable with > quad-core, 8 GB, and the FX-3700 and dual > hard drives and 17" 1920x1200 with 400 nit > LED backlight :-) > > Stuart Maybe you should forward this question to the xorg-devel list at x.org? What Xorg supports, also works on Solaris, except for stuff which requires a kernel module as backend, such as DRI/DRM - where it is first necessary to port the kernel modules to SunOS5.7++'s DDI/DDK interface (which the driver community has already done for intel and radeon already, and I believe NVidia closed src binary-only modules are also available for DRI/DRM - all for x86/x64 - only, as of now). Nevertheless, for everything else: As long as Xorg supports it, then Xorg at Solaris does so, too (here and then userland Xorg ddx modules need some debugging to make them work, but otherwise no problem). The X11-group and fox-project maintainers maintain a rich set of patches against vanilla Xorg, but most of these are not device dependent. Only drawback for you: If you want cutting-edge chipset support for the most recent chipsets, you should take a compiler and build most recent drivers (or even a more recent server such as the libpciaccess based 1.5-RC's) yourself. I hope this answeres your question? Regards, %martin -- Natmar Opensolaris http://visgetidentifier.blogspot.com/
