On 02/22/11 08:46 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: > On 2/22/2011 8:28 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> On 02/22/11 07:47 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: >>> If you care about 3D, don't use the Sandy Bridge or Bulldozer on-die GPUs. >>> Get >>> a add-in graphics card. They're better supported all around. Both AMD and >>> (particularly) Nvidia have good Solaris drivers for most of their add-in >>> card >>> product line nowdays. >> No, mostly just nvidia. For AMD/ATI we currently only just pass through the >> open source 2D driver, without the support provided by the DRI driver in >> other >> OS'es for Kernel Modesetting (KMS) or hardware acceleration > Thanks for the correction, Alan. > > I had thought we'd added support for KMS, but, obviously, you know better > than I.
Not for AMD/ATI. KMS is work in progress for Intel graphics (a joint project of Intel & Oracle, part of our ongoing partnership), but not yet integrated, nor has any KMS support for anything but Intel graphics been done. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org