Clay Baenziger wrote: > Hi Jack, > One thing which is poorly handled by OpenSolaris today is when a > user has an older (~>3 years old) NVidia chipset we don't install the > drivers for it. > A number of engineers around my office recently brought this up, as > we don't out of the box support a Sun W2100z. The W2100z uses an older > NVidia driver. Though, this is a specific case, it seems it would be > very good to detect that we don't support the graphic chip through the > DDU and automatically fall back to VESA mode graphics - reducing the > need for the GRUB VESA mode entry. > Further, it would be very nice to see that we support the W2100z's > as more and more engineers -- let alone customers -- with them try to > run OpenSolaris. This may require a poke to the folks maintaining the > DDU database as I don't know if it flags on older NVidia hardware now > but wanted to point it out while 10.02 was still in the midsts of > development.
I'm not sure I agree that we/DDU should be on the hook here. I would much prefer to see a solution to this issue pursued by the X team, if it is in fact important enough to provide at all. Dave
