n...@jnickelsen.de said:
> 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.
> . . .
> 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.
Wow, this is getting pretty far afield from a ZFS discussion. Hopefully
others will find this a helpful tidbit....
I just found some xorg.conf settings which greatly alleviate this issue
on my Solaris-10-x86 machine with ATI Radeon 9200 graphics adapter. In
the "Device" section, try one of the following:
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" # default is "XAA"
Or:
Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "on"
Seriously, it's almost like having a new PC. Either option makes the
"100% CPU while fading rotating images" go away; Personally, I prefer
the 2nd option, as I found the 1st method led to slightly slower redrawing
of windows (e.g. when you switch between GNOME desktops), but that will
depend on what else you're doing.
But yes, nVidia cards are much, much better supported in Solaris.
Regards,
Marion
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