On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Greg Palmer <GregoryLPalmer at netscape.net> wrote: > Hello, > > I am running OpenSolaris on a Dell Latitude D600 which has an ATI > Technologies Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000[ video card. This is a > dual boot machine also using Fedora 10. I have installed the latest > SUNWatigfx driver from the dev repository but the video performance on > OpenSolaris still lags behind that I see from Fedora on the same > hardware. Is this something I can improve with the drivers from > FreeDesktop or using another driver? > > Regards, > Greg > > BTW, the latest SUNWatigfx driver provided a nice boost to performance > over the previous one.
I also tried Fedora 10 for a month. And while it may be true that the actual performance is a bit better, it has many other bugs which are not present on Solaris. Do you also have an incorrect, poor, invalid unsharp scaling of many fonts on Fedora 10?? Or was it only on my box? What you can do: Wait until SXCE snv_107 gets out (should come soon). According to Alan's / X11 group's announcements, you have server 1.5.3 then, with libpciaccess aware (and hence much newer) versions of most drivers. If you want this now, I could put the pkgadd packages which I generated yesterday (?) in httpd's pub dir. Is there somebody interested in this? %martin
