Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > Then it should be achievable on Solaris - we use mostly the same drivers, > modulo version skew. > I suspect that one of the issues here is that its trying to use the i810 driver. That didn't do too well for me under Linux either, while the X.org 2.0 driver xf86-driver-intel works like a charm.
The 'reference' site seems to be http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/download.html, but its by no means clear how linux-specific it is, or how widely supported the neeed agpart and drm modules are - there is some traffic on FreeBSD's Xwin list and that's the next battleground after Solaris. >> I see nv_66 is available now, would I get much better by trying to >> upgrade to that from b64a? > > It should include the new agpgart support for i945 series graphics. If > that doesn't help, you'll need to get help from someone who knows that > hardware much better than I. > I'll download and install it. I need to completely reinstall anyway since (sigh) the process of auto partitioning a 100GB partition, installing the NetBeans and C++ IDE from SXDE, and indexing the man pages, results in a root partition too full to boot multiuser. :-( I'm quite happy to buy an nVidia card if necessary, but I see that bizarrely the cards listed as supported for Solaris are quaddro only, and all the consumer cards for the same driver version are supported for Linux and FreeBSD - is this just an oddity of the way that nVidia declare support? If the Intel support is currently dodgy I'll order a 7600GT. Shame, cos I bought the mobo well after Intel releasing their new generation driver code, on the assumption that it would be the safest bet as a result. James
