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List:       opensolaris-discuss
Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post
From:       Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith () oracle ! com>
Date:       2011-02-22 16:49:24
Message-ID: 4D63E914.1020506 () oracle ! com
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On 02/22/11 08:46 AM, Erik Trimble wrote:
> On 2/22/2011 8:28 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 02/22/11 07:47 AM, Erik Trimble wrote:
>>> If you care about 3D, don't use the Sandy Bridge or Bulldozer on-die GPUs.  Get
>>> a add-in graphics card.  They're better supported all around.  Both AMD and
>>> (particularly) Nvidia have good Solaris drivers for most of their add-in card
>>> product line nowdays.
>> No, mostly just nvidia.   For AMD/ATI we currently only just pass through the
>> open source 2D driver, without the support provided by the DRI driver in other
>> OS'es for Kernel Modesetting (KMS) or hardware acceleration
> Thanks for the correction, Alan.
> 
> I had thought we'd added support for KMS, but, obviously, you know better than I.

Not for AMD/ATI.   KMS is work in progress for Intel graphics (a joint project
of Intel & Oracle, part of our ongoing partnership), but not yet integrated,
nor has any KMS support for anything but Intel graphics been done.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith@oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

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