We have some new graphics direct rendering manager (DRM) code to announce for OpenIndiana/hipster. This version should work better on systems where hipster currently shows only a black screen.
If you'd like to try out the new DRM code, you can create a (temporary) testing boot environment as described here: https://www.illumos.org/projects/gfx-drm/wiki/ How_to_create_a_BE_running_the_new_DRM_code Alternatively, you can download and boot the ISO images here: http://dlc-int.openindiana.org/hipster/20161124/ and see how it works for you without installing. Thanks to Alexander Pyhalov <a...@rsu.ru> for both the ISO images and the instructions for creating a test BE. Please report issues with this code on this tracker: https://www.illumos.org/projects/gfx-drm/issues There's one fairly significant known issue (so far) which is that the DRM driver does not restore VGA text mode when Xorg does its last close of a DRM driver handle. Developers interested in this code should note that we've imported all the DRM code (both drivers and libraries) into its own source repository. The reasons for that are several: The DRM driver and library components usually need to be updated together. The DRM driver code (formerly in illumos-gate) is being maintained under different rules than illumos gate (i.e. no cstyle -- all this code needs to track an upstream). The new source repo. is: github.com/illumos/gfx-drm Later, the old DRM code in illumos-gate can be removed. There are some prerequisite changes for illumos needed by the new DRM source repository. I'll be working on getting those integrated into illumos, but if you don't want to wait for that, you can get those changes here: https://github.com/gwr/illumos-gate/commits/drm8 At a minimum, you need to build the gfx_private module there and update that on the system where you'll install the updated DRM drivers If you feel the need to "reply to all" on this message, please discuss the illumos changes (gfx_private updates etc.) on develo...@list.illumos.org and other DRM driver and library work on oi-dev@openindiana.org (Please trim your CC list to just ONE of those -- thanks!) _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev