Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Douglas Atique wrote: > >> Has anyone ever tried Project Looking Glass in SXCE or OpenSolaris? >> At the time I first heard about it Solaris didn't have enough 3D and >> hardware acceleration to use it, but I wonder if it would be usable now. >> How can SOlaris have or not have enough 3D hardware acceleration? Isn't that by definition a functino of what hard ware you run solaris on, not solaris itself? >> Anyone with experiences in this? Any thoughts? Comments? >> > > I helped set up a demo of Looking Glass on SXCE on x86 using the nvidia > drivers when they were first released a couple of years ago - it worked > then, but I haven't tried in the years since. > > I remember having it working on my laptop early in '06 (sNV b56 or so I think.) That was also with the nVidia drivers.
> OpenSolaris 2008.05 and SXCE 85 & later both include Compiz for your 3-D > eye candy needs too. > > I need to play with that. From what I've heard it's cool! > It might even work on SPARC now that there's XVR-2500 support for Xorg in > the latest SXCE builds, but I haven't tried that either. (Looking Glass > requires several X extensions found only in Xorg, not Xsun.) > > Actually at the time I had NV on a SB2000 with XVR1000, and the fact that Looking Glass wouldn't run on that was the whole reason that pushed me to finally load NV on my Dell Laptop. :) Now that I'm no longer at Sun, I really miss the SPARC workstations. -Kyle
