On Mon, May 25, 2009 5:03 am, Christopher Intemann wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Joe Gidi <j...@entropicblur.com> wrote: > >> Christopher Intemann wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > I'm thinking about installing OpenBSD on my desktop workstation. >> > As far as I know, there are commercial (binary) drivers for some >> Nvidia >> > and >> > ATI cards applicable. >> > Do these drivers work on OpenBSD as well? >> >> There is no support for binary blob drivers, and I'd be absolutely >> shocked >> if it was even considered at any point. OpenBSD doesn't work that way. >> >> > If not, which graphics cards are supported for 3D acceleration at all? >> >> Intel and some ATI cards have working DRI/DRM. See >> http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20081029164221 >> > > Thanks for the hint. This looks very promising to me, even though I'm not > very sure how to use the driver on OpenBSD yet. Is there any good straight > forward-howto I could learn from?
In my experience, Intel graphics typically "just work" without an xorg.conf file, while ATIs need an appropriate xorg.conf. See http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq11.html > One more thing: I could get my hands on a cheap Sun Blade sparc > workstation. > Since the drivers mentioned above are OpenSource, would it be possible to > plug a supported ATI graphics-card in the PCI-slot of the sparc box and > compile the driver in order to use it? > Which graphics card would be recommended (most current cards seem to be > AGP-cards - are there any newer PCI-cards with current chipsets applicable > at all?) To the best of my knowledge, 3D acceleration is not yet supported on platforms other than i386/amd64. That said, you can still get accelerated 2D graphics with an ATI card on sparc64; see the FAQ. I think you need a Sun-specific PCI video card for this, since the card's firmware needs to work with OpenFirmware. -- Joe Gidi j...@entropicblur.com
