Ken Mays wrote: > Moinak, > > It would be detrimental to keep building off of Xorg 6.9. At this time, some > effort is underway to utilize the new hardware drivers under Xorg 7.1+ and > hopefully merge Xsun under the Xorg umbrella (one ring to bind them all - > meaning we can use Xorg device drivers to support modern cards for SPARC > hardware). Legacy card support is being done by Martin (look over in the > PowerPC discussions). > > I've built the full Xorg on the SPARC/x86 platforms through the CVS and git > systems with Alan's help. Mesa 6.5.1+ usually is stable if built correctly. > FreeType is something to keep your eyes on - but builds well. Nvidia drivers > work well most of the time (mostly OpenSolaris build issues). I'm awaiting > build 50 for the DRI support. Xorg 7.2 is the other main thing. Most recent > testing is with Nvidia 6200/7800 & Intel X3000. > > It may benefit the Belenix project to await such efforts as an official > release of Nevada Build 50 and Xorg 7.2 (or recent snapshot of Xorg as last > resort). I've worked on the fancy compositing features a few months ago under > MetaCity for GNOME 2.14.3. Mostly, Nvidia is the best on Solaris for such > work. >
I have tried out the 7.1 tarballs which caused some issues. But I understand now that the git repository has more fixes and enhancements and the Solaris build issues I have faced have been cleaned up. > Most of us are compiling Xorg with Sun Studio. Did the Nexenta team run into > the same compile issues in their autobuilder using gcc?? > I do not know about Nexenta, however I intend to use SUN Studio. I have tested the Nvidia drivers on BeleniX with a recent OpenSolaris snapshot (that also includes DRI BTW) and it appears to work well. My intent is to get Xgl and Compiz working properly for the next release. This also means that I will stop using Xorg 6.9. Regards, Moinak. > ~ Ken Mays, EarthLink, Inc. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org >
