Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> There is a 2-D graphics driver for Radeon X300 graphics in
> OpenSolaris already. For 3-D acceleration, you would need
> to add the DRI module for Radeon to both the kernel & mesa.
>
> Fortunately, this has been done by Sun engineers and is coming
> in an update that should be available on pkg.opensolaris.org
> soon (I believe the build 90 update will include it).
I verified this today on my Ferrari 4000 laptop with Radeon
Mobility X700 graphics after doing a pkg image-update to the
build 90 packages on the internal staging server (they're working
to push these to pkg.opensolaris.org this week), and then
rebooting into the new build 90 kernel.
I was then able to turn on compiz via the GNOME Appearance
preferences, and while it wasn't as fast as the much newer
nvidia card in my Ultra 40, and had some drawing glitches,
the desktop cube seemed to rotate smoothly.
The relevant bits from my /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
(II) LoadModule: "radeon"
(II) Loading /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/amd64//radeon_drv.so
(II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 4.3.0
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.2
[...]
(--) Chipset ATI Mobility Radeon X700 (M26) (PCIE) found
[...]
(II) RADEON(0): [dri] Found DRI library version 1.3.0 and kernel module version
1.25.0
[...]
(II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
