Ryan wrote: >Hi all, > >I am new to solaris in general and want to ween myself off windows. So what >better way to do that then buy a laptop and install solaris express and then >force myself to learn solaris :) > >My question is related to nvidia vs ati really. I saw that nvidia has binary >drivers out specifically for solaris ( I think sun paid nvidia to do this, >because sun uses quadro cards) but ati only has drivers for linux. I that that >their are open drivers for each brand as well, but from what I understand the >drivers directly from the company should increase graphical >performance/ability. > > AFAIK you won't yet get 3D accel with ATI cards on Solaris. Nvidia cards however work nicely with their binary driver. The Nvidia solaris driver officially mentions only the Quadro but it works fine with most of their workstation graphics cards as well (like the GeForce series). Though there may be problems with some of the older cards like Riva series, but who uses Riva nowadays.
I installed it on an Acer Aspire with GeForce 6600 + Solaris Express B38 and Quake and Celestia run ultra cool. Regards. Moinak. >My goal for this laptop is to eventually successfully implement the AIGLX >project onto my solaris desktop. I really want to push my GPU to the max, and >the work thats being done in openGL rendering directly from X (aiui) is really >cool. > >So in summary, if I am looking for a laptop that can run solaris 10 and >utilize 3d acceleration (i think i need this to run AIGLX), what are my >choices? > >I am looking at the Samsung X11, but unfortuantly it is not available in the >US. > >Also it seems that any laptops that have AMD 64 processors use ATI graphics >solutions, which from what I read are not as well supported in UNIX/Linux. > >Opinons? > > >This message posted from opensolaris.org >_______________________________________________ >xwin-discuss mailing list >xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org > >
