On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Douglas Atique <d3atiq at gmail.com> wrote: >> 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? > > I hereby apologise for my language imprecision. I meant to say that there was > not enough support in the Solaris drivers that were then available for most > video hardware to enable and use 3D and hardware acceleration features. Of > course, the OS, kernel or anything else that may be informally regarded by > the name "Solaris" does not bear any relation to the aforementioned hardware > characteristics. > > :-)
Nvidia 3D acceleration is supported via the Nvidia binary driver. ATI accleration via DRI is available for some ATI chipsets in recent builds. 3D Acceleration for Intel i915 and related chipsets is also available via DRI on OpenSolaris. Regards, Moinak. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org >
