[desktop-discuss] ATI Radeon support for compiz easy install bundle

[Stephen Lau]

Nvidia's drivers aren't open source...

Brian Nitz wrote:
> Hmm, I thought Nvidia went in a long time ago. I must have been 
> thinking Solaris 10?  Did NVidia's weird license prevent drivers from 
> being delivered with Opensolaris?  That's good news about ATI and 
> Intel though.
> Stephen Lau wrote:
>> OpenSolaris has had accelerated 3d for Intel devices for quite a 
>> while already :)
>> In fact, it's the only open source accelerated 3d device support in 
>> OpenSolaris right now (AFAIK)
>>
>> cheers,
>> steve
>>
>> Brian Nitz wrote:
>>> Erwann,
>>>
>>> Thanks this is excellent news!  Between ATI and Nvidia chipsets, we 
>>> must be getting close to majority coverage of the accelerated 
>>> graphics hardware on modern PCs.  Are there accelerated Solaris 
>>> drivers for 3d acceleration on Intel chipsets yet?
>>> Once they are stable, these drivers should improve performance even 
>>> on desktop without compiz.
>>>
>>> Erwann Chenede wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>      I've updated my compiz easy install bundle and my 
>>>> configuration check script to support
>>>>    the ATI radeon driver developed by Minskey.
>>>>
>>>>    So far it's only been tested on Ferrari 4000 laptop.
>>>>
>>>>    Details can be found here : 
>>>> http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/entry/ati_support_for_compiz_easy
>>>>
>>>>       Cheers,
>>>>
>>>>             Erwann
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
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