On 2012-02-05 00:04, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Robin Axelsson<gu99r...@student.chalmers.se
wrote:
On 2012-02-04 17:32, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
On 02/ 4/12 05:03 AM, Nikola M. wrote:
On 02/ 1/12 05:51 PM, Robin Axelsson wrote:
I'm using an ATI Radeon Juniper card (HD5770) and I reported a little
over a
year ago that the screen went black as Xorg starts when using the radeon
driver on OI 148. The solution was to ditch the radeon driver and use
the VESA
driver in its stead.
Best thing one can do with AMD graphics on Solaris/Illumos and
Openindiana is to
get rid of it,
and get Nvidia graphics card that actually have proprietary binary
drivers for
Solaris/Opensolaris based OS'es.
For Solaris, I fully agree that the nvidia driver is the way to go for
performance, features,& stability. For illumos-based distros, I cannot
guarantee that nvidia's driver will always continue to work, as it does
depend on some private interfaces of the Solaris kernel, and if those
evolve and illumos version of gfx-private does not, it may not always
work. (It probably will as long as older Solaris 10 releases are
supported,
but that's not going to be forever, though it's more likely any card you
buy today will move to a nvidia legacy driver before the main branch drops
Solaris 10 support.)
Maybe best thing would be to bring more people to KMS Illumos
implementation and porting radeon and other drivers.
That's really the only viable way for illumos& openindiana to get and
continue graphics driver support now.
That sounds pretty bleak to me. It's as if one is not supposed to use a
graphics card when running OpenIndiana.
In all honesty, as for features I'm happy even if I get a crappy picture
on the card, when I boot into OI I barely use the GPU anyway. But I would
really like to mufflle that fan as the noise from it really is polluting
the (indoor) environment.
I've never heard of 'KMS Illumos' before, what is KMS anyway and what does
it stand for? It would be great if someone could clue me in.
If someone could give me pointers on how to compile individual drivers
from source (particularly where to (w)get that source without getting the
entire distro) on OpenIndiana and install them I could try to hack
something up. My time and experience is rather limited but I could give it
a try. I guess I could try to get a hold of the Solaris Internals book.
KMS :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_mode-setting
Thank you very much .
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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I found something in the Gentoo forums that may help:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-911060-start-0.html
I just don't know how this could be done in OpenIndiana/Solaris. Another
way could be to do a D0-D3 powerdown on the PCIe slot with the card but
I don't know if it is applicable on expansion cards that have/use an
auxiliary power source. I also don't know how things such as PCI power
Management and ACPI are done in Solaris.
I found some source code of a radeon driver but I'm not sure if it is
the latest one. Perhaps it is the lack of 'KMS' that creates this problem.
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