Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > www.jtan.com/~reader/SDDToolReport-chub-OpenSolaris.html
I see the following there: Solaris Bundled Driver: * vgatext/ ** radeon Video ATI Technologies Inc R360 NJ [Radeon 9800 XT] I *think* this is the same driver used with my work laptop (which I don't have at hand to check, unfortunately), also with ATI graphics hardware. As far as I know the situation with ATI is that, while ATI supplies well-performing binary drivers for MS Windows (of course) and Linux, there is no such thing for other OSs. So OpenSolaris uses standardized interfaces of the graphics hardware, which have comparatively low bandwidth. This leads to very unimpressive graphics performance, up to the point that the machine nearly freezes when large images are loaded into the graphics adapter. Most of my work is text-oriented (lots of XTerms and one XEmacs, mostly) with some web browsing and the occasional GUI tool thrown in, and this works mostly fine on the system. Even picture processing with Gimp from time to time is okay, while not fast. (And I do not mean "not blindingly fast", but rather "really not fast".) But there are things that really are a pain, e. g. web pages that constantly blend one picture into the other, for instance http://www.strato.de/ . While you would not notice that, usually, this page makes my laptop really slow, such that it requires significant effort even to find and press the button to close the window. Still, I find that bearable given that I have Solaris running on the machine (as my target platform is Solaris 10) including ZFS goodness. On the other hand, I understand that you want to build a server, not a workstation type machine. Graphics performance should be irrelevant in this case. If it is not, you might consider another graphics adapter. To my knowledge the situation is much better with NVIDIA hardware. Regards, Juergen. -- Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure. -- Eric Allman _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
