[xwin-discuss] AMD/ATI opens chips specs, was What's new for drivers for Xorg on SPA

2008-07-07 Thread Edward O'Callaghan
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[xwin-discuss] AMD/ATI opens chips specs, was What's new for drivers for Xorg on SPAR

2008-07-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Richard L. Hamilton wrote: I wish I could pick up his work and do something more substantial with it. But I doubt that I have the time, or attention span, to learn enough of how it all fits together to accomplish that. It's a heck of a waste not to have those drivers, though. I would love to

[xwin-discuss] Poor X11 performance in snv_91?

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Ridd
I'm noticing that my 2 machines running snv_91 appear to be running quite slowly compared to snv_90. In particular, moving windows around on screen shows background windows (eg gnome-terminal, firefox, thunderbird) repainting themselves very slowly. The desktop box has an Nvidia NV43GL [Quadro

[xwin-discuss] AMD/ATI opens chips specs,

2008-07-07 Thread Ken Mays
Alan Coopermith said: I would love to see someone pick up the work and finish it off, but I certainly don't have the time either. I'm willing to provide some assistance to anyone who wants to make a serious attempt though. What does Sun want/need the community to do to attempt this mission??

[xwin-discuss] Poor X11 performance in snv_91?

2008-07-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Chris Ridd wrote: John Martin wrote: Chris Ridd wrote: I'm noticing that my 2 machines running snv_91 appear to be running quite slowly compared to snv_90. In particular, moving windows around on screen shows background windows (eg gnome-terminal, firefox, thunderbird) repainting

[xwin-discuss] Poor X11 performance in snv_91?

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Ridd
Alan Coopersmith wrote: The root and /usr pages were merged into a single package for IPS for most packages in Solaris, since IPS doesn't need to keep them seperate for zones/diskless support as SVR4 packages did, so the IPS NVDAgraphics includes the contents of both the NVDAgraphicsr and

[xwin-discuss] Poor X11 performance in snv_91?

2008-07-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Chris Ridd wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: The root and /usr pages were merged into a single package for IPS for most packages in Solaris, since IPS doesn't need to keep them seperate for zones/diskless support as SVR4 packages did, so the IPS NVDAgraphics includes the contents of both the

[xwin-discuss] Poor X11 performance in snv_91?

2008-07-07 Thread John Martin
Chris Ridd wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: The root and /usr pages were merged into a single package for IPS for most packages in Solaris, since IPS doesn't need to keep them seperate for zones/diskless support as SVR4 packages did, so the IPS NVDAgraphics includes the contents of both the