Jensen Lee wrote:
> It is a shame that Sun does not support XVR-500, XVR-1000, Expert 3D and
> several other graphic cards on OpenSolaris because of copyright/NDA/patent
> issues.
>
> I think that Sun should make an effort to liase with 3D Labs to open their
> drivers source to allow for implementation into OpenSolaris.
>
> In the meantime could Sun at least provide binary drivers for these cards,
> even as separate downloads, to allow those like me with legacy Sun
> workstations to install, use and contribute to OpenSolaris?
The binary drivers have been available as a separate download for several years.
You can install them and get kernel level support, but at the X server level,
they only support Xsun, not Xorg, so that really doesn't give you much other
than not seeing a "no driver for frame buffer" messages from the kernel at boot.
Xsun cannot be included in OpenSolaris due to other licensing issues, and since
it was already planned to be EOF'ed as part of the transition to Xorg, there was
no point in resolving those. (Resolution of those licensing issues would
probably be a 6-12 month engineering effort to replace Xsun's font backends with
open source ones.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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