Mikael, As Alan has pointed out: there is no radeon dri for OpenSolaris until someone ports the kernel driver. I have the same card and discern no 'big' gains between radeon/radeonhd, although anecdotally radeonhd seems somewhat smoother.
So, in a nutshell... this is as good as it gets until _someone_ ports radeon dri to the Solaris kernel. Hope this clarifies it for you. Cheers, Steven On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Mikael Lindsten <no-reply at opensolaris.org>wrote: > > X driver folks - since this user keeps posting to > > opensolaris-help instead > > of xwin-discuss, can you go read his questions and > > data over there to help him? > > Sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place. I figured I should post here since > I'm in need of help. > > > Excerpt from #xorg: > > (21.32.40) alanc: lindsten: OpenSolaris just takes the radeon sources from > Xorg and builds them, so if there's a new version from Xorg, it could be > built for OpenSolaris - but there is no radeon dri for OpenSolaris until > someone ports the kernel driver, so /dev/dri/* won't exist > (21.34.06) alanc: OpenSolaris 2009.06 includes Xorg 1.5.3, xf86-video-ati > 6.10.0, & -radeonhd 1.2.4 - the new package set with Xorg 1.6.1.901, ati > 6.12.2 & radeonhd 1.2.5 has been built and is in testing/progress for > release to the /dev (development/unstable) repo later this week or early > next week > (21.34.37) ***alanc knows how to build & package drivers, not how to > fix/troubleshoot them > (21.36.13) mzz: alanc: you don't happen to know if he should try radeonhd > instead of radeon? > (21.38.40) alanc: I know both are there, so you can try both - I haven't > the foggiest which driver works better on that card > > > Are you saying that the newer version of the driver that mzz was talking > about will be included in the next development build? Do I have to download, > burn and reinstall to get the latest development build, or is there some > other way to upgrade? > > You also said that I can try both radeon and radeonhd. What's the > difference between the two and how do I try the other one? > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20090618/c100f9ba/attachment.html>
