On 12/14/2010 07:19 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > xterm doesn't use glx - you shouldn't get messages like that, but GLX > acceleration isn't available for ATI graphics right now so it won't buy you > much. > >
Thanks for the information. > > This message could be simply replaced by "Hey! You're not running Linux!" - > the > fbdev module only works there, so we don't ship it, but have never taken the > time to silence the harmless message. > > Yeah, I was wondering about that. Figured I might as well include it. > DRI, and thus much hardware acceleration, is simply not available for ATI > graphics on OpenSolaris or Solaris at this time. If you want hardware > accelerated graphics, use Nvidia or Intel graphics instead, as those vendors > have put in a lot of effort to provide accelerated graphics drivers for > Solaris for their products. > I wasn't aware of that. I wonder, did Claus Assmann's old box support accelerated graphics? _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
