> Hi! > > After reading a topic dated from 2008 > (http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=5014 > 5&tstart=0), I felt that by now there would probably > be at least a 2D direct acceleration support for ATI > cards. However, upon asking around at the IRC a while > ago, I found that the current driver was actually > software accelerated in nature, leading to poor > performance while doing simple tasks such as dragging > windows around, or watching videos. > > That being then and this being now, I decided to ask > again at the IRC to see if any progress had been > made. This time they directed me to either wait for a > user called "alanc" to pop up in the IRC, or to post > here to inquire about the state of support for ATI > cards.
AMD/ATi support does not evolve much, still uses MESA for 3D, and there isn't project to bring Gallium3D framework into opensolaris. plus, so far ati driver in opensolaris does not properly support S3. For desktop compiz effect, both Intel and nvidia driver will do, but if you are looking for advanced OpenGL acceleration, currently nvidia is the only choice, nvidia continues to update opensolaris port of their driver, for now. you can also find alanc in xwin-discuss. He is *the* guy when you have questions regarding X Window system on opensolaris. Ivan. > > I understand that ATI's driver is closed source, and > that they have not ported it over to OpenSolaris > themselves. > > Thanks in advance for any light you guys may be able > to shed on the situation! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
