[indiana-discuss] Compiz doesn't work on b117.

[Norbert P. Copones]

On 1832 0, Uros Nedic <urosn at live.com> wrote:
> 
>    It is not Intel's video but ATI's.
>    > Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:20:22 +0800
>    > From: norbert at tricom.com.ph
>    > To: indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org
>    > Subject: Re: [indiana-discuss] Compiz doesn't work on b117.
>    >
>    > On 1829 0, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
>    > > Uros Nedic wrote:
>    > > > I'm running OS b117 on Acer Aspire 5101AWLMi.
>    > > > 1GB RAM, Turion64 MK36, ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 128MB RAM.
>    > > >
>    > > > When I want to enable some of Compiz features my screen just
>    goes
>    > > > white. When I press ESC I switch off this features and
>    everything goes
>    > > > normal.
>    > > >
>    > > > Any suggestion?
>    >
>    > buy a machine with nvidia graphics, as intel video is slow on b117
>    > for now

oops i forgot to include the part below. that is where my intended answer is.
sorry :)

On 1829 0, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Buy a machine with nvidia or intel graphics.   OpenSolaris currently does  
> not support the 3D acceleration required for compiz on ATI or any other
> chipsets.   If you want to change that, help the project working
> to port the open source DRI drivers for other graphics cards:
>         http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/dri/