--- On Mon, 7/6/09, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
> From: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM>
> Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] ATI Radeon 1650 DRI
> To: "Alexander" <alp at rsu.ru>
> Cc: "OpenSolaris X Window System List" <xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org>,
> opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 5:01 PM
> Alexander wrote:
> > I want to enable DRI support for ATI Radeon 1650, but
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows:
>
> I'm pretty sure you would first have to port a newer
> version of the ATI DRM
> module to the OpenSolaris kernel, as the current radeon DRM
> is older than
> Radeon 1000-series support.
This would not be worth the effort to port the ATI DRM at this time. The Xorg
ATI 3D driver is not really reliable in doing any high-level rendering and
still a major work in progress. This might become more
promising if we were to port over ATI's Catalyst driver project.
I expect this to change by Nov 2009 - but the workaround is to use Nvidia-based
cards for any 3D rendering/OpenGL work for now. You can get decent Nvidia
Quadro FX and GeForce FX 8xxx-based cards for about $35-50 USD.
~ Ken Mays
