Mario Goebbels wrote: > I suppose this is the best place to ask this, but are there actually issues > in Solaris itself or the Xorg port for Solaris that prevents them from > implementing support of the newest chipsets, namely the G92 / 8800GT? > Which Solaris version? Solaris Express is bundled with the latest driver (100.14.19) starting with b76. This driver is also in S10U5 (starting with b2). Both FreeBSD and Linux are also at 100.14.19.
You are always free to download the driver directly from http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html and install it on the Solaris version you are using. The issue with G92/8800GT is not Xorg support for Solaris, but the way Solaris device plumbing is done. On Solaris, the PCI ID must be exposed in plain text (/etc/driver_aliases). Other flavors of UNIX query the driver to see if a device is supported. For Solaris, the NVIDIA driver release usually predates the product announcement so the PCI ID may not be included to prevent pre-announcing the product. In these cases, you must use update_drv to add the PCI ID after the product ships -- at least until the next driver update.
