Linked by Robert Escue on Wed 20th Sep 2006 17:45 UTC
Sun Microsystems makes new releases of Solaris about every four to six months, in many cases all the new release contains is bug fixes and some changes in functionality. More often than not most releases go by without a great deal of fanfare. Just as Solaris 10 3/05 broke new ground with Zones, Dtrace and the Service Management Facility. Solaris 10 6/06 introduces ZFS or Zettabyte File System and the SATA framework and Xorg 6.9, which will be the primary focus of this review.
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2006-09-20
>I know nVidia has a Solaris x86 driver, but it appears >to be for the Quadro series of cards that are used in >the Sun Ultra workstation series, so I never tried it.
Actually the Nvidia Solaris x86 drivers should work
with all versions of Nvidia chipsets. I have a
7800GTX Nvidia in my Sager 9750 laptop that works the
Solaris x86 Nvidia driver. Much of the embedded
Nvidia mortherboars (video) seems to work with the
drivers from Nvidia.
As for Xorg drivers not coming up with the correct
initial resolution during installation you could
consider this a bug and log the bug on opensolaris.org
site and they do address these types of issues. Heck
they address more than that I had a bug with my Nvidia
7800gtx 6months ago causing a panic and Sun fixed
that also. I've never seen them not address a bug
with a good description and feedback just like any
other open source platform. But than again Xorg
is not Sun or Solaris specific to begin with. Sun
does have engineers in the X organization.
I wish ATI would become more active in the Unix/Linux/BSD community. Maybe with the AMD
byout they will.
---Bob