James Mansion wrote:
> 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.
They renamed the driver from i810 to intel at version 2.0. We still have
the old 1.7.4 driver in Solaris - work on updating to 2.0 is in progress.
> 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?
The driver is the same between Linux, Solaris & FreeBSD - the "support"
is the set of cards supported under a Solaris support contract - it will
work with most of the current GeForce cards, but if you're using one you
can't escalate issues through Sun support to nvidia for a fix, just ask
nicely (and in many cases they'll fix anyway).
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
