[indiana-discuss] [caiman-discuss] Compiz-fusion in Indiana

[Shawn Walker]

On 27/10/2007, Ivan Wang <ivwang at mail2000.com.tw> wrote:
> > Albert Lee wrote:
> > > On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
> > >
> > >> It sounded like Compiz isn't quite ready
> > (particularly given the
> > >> limited device support) for integration into the
> > Live CD at the
> > >> moment.  However, I would expect it to be made
> > available through a
> > >> network repository in the near term.
> > >>
> > >
> > > The device support is only limited by the devices
> > we currently have 3D
> > > acceleration for, and from talking to Alan that's
> > expected to improve
> > > soon.
> >
> > Indiana will initially only have 3-D acceleration for
> > Intel graphics
> > chipsets out of the box.   nVidia will require
> > downloading their
> > Solaris driver from nvidia.com or sun.com, (or
> > possibly a Sun-hosted,
> > but not-publically-mirrored repository - I don't know
> > if such a
> > thing will be set up for 3rd party components Sun has
> > rights to
> > redistribute itself, but not grant unlimited
> > redistribution rights
>
> If it's legality reason for not including nVidia binary driver by default, would it be possible to make downloading part of install process? Say, when nvidia graphic is detected, indiana installer automagically downloads and installs the driver. (assuming network is accessible at that time.)
>
> Having compiz-fusion as default when h/w supports would be very cool.

As far as I know, it is currently a legal thing. Apparently after a
year or more of talks with nVidia, nVidia is dragging their behind in
getting the wording in the current license to allow redistribution of
their driver for OpenSolaris (they already do for Linux). What a pain.

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