Today's putback of Xorg 1.9 and the Intel 2009Q4 (KMS) bundle to xnv-gate
constitutes a flag day for those using packages built from this source tree
(either when integrated into Oracle's Nevada development releases or for
those who are building from our sources for other distros).
The effects differ by the hardware and drivers you use. Specifically:
- Intel graphics:
- The intel driver now requires an updated i915 kernel module with KMS
(kernel mode-setting) support. Users of Oracle development
builds who wish to use this build now will need to update to
on-nightly bits at the same time, otherwise wait until the full WOS
build is out with the changes from both consolidations integrated.
Alternatively, users either internal or external can simply remove
the xorg-video-intel driver package and use the VESA driver instead.
Builders of external distros can choose to port the i915 KMS
support from DRI upstream to the kernel they use, to port the older
xf86-video-intel non-KMS driver versions to the new Xorg version, or
to drop the intel module and just ship vesa.
- Nvidia graphics:
- For recent GPU's (G4x family and above, 2005+), the required driver is
already included in Oracle development builds. For those building
their own distros, 260.19.12 is the minimum required. However, the
recommended minimum version is 260.19.36.
- For those who have to manually install legacy drivers for older hardware:
For G3x GPUs, minimum driver is 173.14.28.
For G2x and earlier GPUs, minimum driver is 96.43.19.
- ATI/AMD Radeon graphics:
- The "radeonhd" driver is no longer maintained upstream and has been
removed with this putback. Support for all the latest Radeon HD
devices has been provided via the "radeon" driver for some time.
For most users this should be transparent as autoconfiguration will
simply load the radeon driver for ATI cards. If you've manually
configured xorg.conf to load radeonhd you may need to edit that file
and change the driver name to radeon.
- kfb or efb drivers for SPARC frame buffers:
- These drivers will need updates to work with Xorg 1.9. These updates will
be integrated into the WOS in the same build as this change, so users
of Oracle development builds who use these devices should generally
wait for the full WOS build to be available.
Unfortunately, these updates are not currently available to those
building their own distros.
- wsfb driver for SPARC frame buffers:
- This driver has been removed. Oracle development builds have provided
native Xorg drivers for all devices with kernel fb drivers since the
end of SXCE, so there are no devices for which this is useful in those
builds.
Those building their own distro will have to make their own decision
on whether to continue shipping or not - this driver was intended as
a temporary bootstrap to allow testing Xorg on sparc before native
drivers could be provided (since they required a working Xorg to
test against), and only worked at all with a limited set of devices
such as m64, but not with many of the 3Dlabs cards, and worked
poorly on the devices it could drive.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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