Alan, On snv90 in OpenSolaris2008.05, has the following bug fix been back ported or did you just do: Xorg -configure to generate an xorg.conf file, http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6642276
Best Regards, Edward. 2008/6/4 Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com>: > 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 > > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- All Documents adhered to the ISO/IEC 26300 standard file format for electronic office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents from this email address. The author does not take responsibility of the recipients inability to read international standards and who use proprietary products such as MS Office. See: http://www.openoffice.org/ Edward O'Callaghan. -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EdwardOcallaghan http://moonshine.opn4.org/ http://www.pcbsd.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/attachments/20080604/6ca7e4d7/attachment.html>
