John Brewer wrote:
> Solarois 10u3 used the nv driver and OpenSolaris swtcihed snv_b65 from the nv
> to the nVidia I am not sure of all the reasons why maybe nVidia provides
> more feature enablement then what nv driver was Opensource?
Solaris 10u4 also switches to the nvidia driver. nv is open source,
while nvidia is not, but nvidia gets many more features (including 3d
acceleration) that nv does not have. There is a new community based
effort ("Nouveau" - http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/ ) which aims to
produce more featureful opensource drivers through reverse engineering
those areas which nvidia has chosen to keep out of the nv open source
driver they contribute to. (But at least, unlike ATI, nvidia provides
enough to the open source drivers to get a decent display on all their
cards.)
> One issue nVidia implimentation is the pixels are not cleared as the cursor
> moved with the backspace or left arrow on the Mozilla or Firefox typing in a
> HTML form, So the pixels of the cursor are not solid and have shifted and on
> the left arrow characters that the cursor pass through pixels are left and
> are not cleared, this does not happen in star office or Openoffice, it seems
> to be font related
>
> Two, the other is the syncing of the x-y boundaries when the X-server starts
> up on both dtlogin and gnome has 1/2 cm of black unused space at the bottom
> or 2 cm on the right when using a wide screen LCD, it is reproducible when
> dual booting from XP back to Solaris, XP also seems to have this issue as
> well, but Vista does not and syncs correctly every time what ever the
> gnome-resolution screen resolution preferences tool, in my case I cam make
> use of most of 1680x1050, 1440x900, 1280x1024, 1152x864 , 832x634, 800x600,
> 540x480, but the resyncing veyries on the right side of the screen when I
> change resolutions, I have a Asus N2NPV-VM MB w. 64meg enabled nVidia GeForce
> 6100.
I believe you've filed bugs on both of those right? I seem to
remember bugs like this in the set we're working on with nvidia.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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