Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 13th May 2007 14:21 UTC, submitted by John Mills
AMD will soon deliver open graphics drivers, said Henri Richard just a few minutes ago, and the audience at the opening keynote of the Red Hat Summit broke into applause and cheers. Richard, AMD's executive vice president of sales and marketing, promised: "I'm here to commit to you that it's going to get done." He also promised that AMD is "going to be very proactive in changing way we interface with the Linux community".
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My Thinkpad z61m comes with an ATI X1400 and last time I looked, the current open source X.org driver did not support this card, meaning I only got a painfully slow VESA desktop in Nexenta. Maybe I didn't try hard enough, but does anyone know of a solution to get accelerated 2D in any OpenSolaris version with this card?
You need to create a xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 and use the radeon driver - there have been many people who appear in #opensolaris chat room and find that the reason why they've got crappy snappiness with graphics is drived from the fact they're either using the vesa driver or the ati one.
As for Nexenta, I'd personally give it the heave-ho, and install Solaris Express Developer Edition - there is a new one being either this coming week or the following, which is based off B64/65. This includes Xorg 7.2 server + updates.
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You need to create a xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 and use the radeon driver - there have been many people who appear in #opensolaris chat room and find that the reason why they've got crappy snappiness with graphics is drived from the fact they're either using the vesa driver or the ati one.
Wrong. The "radeon" driver, which you tell him to use, does not support the x1400 he was talking about.
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2005-09-10
My Thinkpad z61m comes with an ATI X1400 and last time I looked, the current open source X.org driver did not support this card, meaning I only got a painfully slow VESA desktop in Nexenta. Maybe I didn't try hard enough, but does anyone know of a solution to get accelerated 2D in any OpenSolaris version with this card?