Alan, I've updated the illumos bug report.
Ken --- On Tue, 1/11/11, Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mesa 7.10 for OI_148 > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <[email protected]> > Cc: "ken mays" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 7:47 PM > On 01/11/11 03:20 PM, ken mays > wrote: > > Just reviewed the Mesa 7.10 test builds and packaging > for OI_148. > > What test builds and packaging are > these? Are these builds you've > made to share with others or just your own private builds? > > > Most of the users seem to have either ATI Radeon, > Intel, or Nvidia-based GPUs. > > That does cover somewhat more than 95% of the modern > desktop & laptop market. > Servers often have graphics cards that aren't widespread on > the desktop because > they don't have good 3D support, but have good enough 2D to > be a local or > remote service console - ATI Rage, Matrox, AST, etc. > > > The Intel and Radeon 2D drivers are being updated, but > the functionaliity with certain GPUs/cards is somewhat > broken and performance regressed in certain configurations. > Be aware of this. I don't expect many improvements in this > area before the next release of S11X. > > Updating the Intel 2D driver to anything much newer than > what's currently in > OI will make it non-functional with the current open source > kernels from either > OpenSolaris or Illumos - it requires Kernel ModeSetting > (KMS) support, that > isn't implemented in either of those > yet. I don't expect any S11X releases > to solve OpenIndiana's problems here. > > Illumos has opened a tracker RFE, but I've not seen anyone > yet even hint that > they're interested in actually working on it: > https://www.illumos.org/issues/577 > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- > [email protected] > Oracle Solaris Platform > Engineering: X Window System > > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
