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

[Ivan Wang]

> 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.

Cheers,
Ivan.

> for).    Porting of the open source ATI DRI drivers
> for the R300 &
> R400 series Radeon is in progress, but I don't know
> how soon they'll
> be ready (I'd love it if we could have an
> experimental repository
> for things like this not yet ready for integration
> and get teams to
> use it more successfully than we've convinced them to
> put work on
> opensolaris.org so far).   ATI R500 & R600 are TBD,
> based on AMD
> deciding how much of the 3D specs they will release
> to the open
> source community.
> 
> There's a bunch more DRI drivers for other chipsets,
> but they're
> waiting for someone to care enough about those
> chipsets to want
> to make them work on OpenSolaris - any volunteers?
>   (Of course,
> ce we get ATI, nVidia & Intel, we'll have ~95% of the
> current
> x86 graphics market, so that may be enough.)
> 
> -- 
> -Alan Coopersmith-
> -           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System
> em Engineering
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