> I have 3 machines which contain ATI graphics cards -
> a Radeon 9800, a HD3600 and a HD3870. OpenSolaris
> b134 is installed on the first of these. On all of
> them, whether I boot from the installed OS or from
> the LiveCD, trying to change the display appearance
> (via System -> Preferences -> Appearance and trying
> to switch from 'None' to 'Normal') results in the
> same behaviour - a delay, a completely blank white
> screen and eventually a return to the Visual Effects
> tab with nothing changed.
Under OpenSolaris, there is no hw OpenGL support
for ATI cards, so the system falls back to software
Mesa OpenGL support.
There are known issues (white screen of death) with
using compiz / visual effects with Mesa:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21682#c8
https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=14387#c13
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