[OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU driver issues in OpenIndiana 151a and a noisy GPU fan

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Robin Axelsson <gu99roax at student.chalmers.se
> wrote:

> On 2012-02-04 17:32, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>
>> On 02/ 4/12 05:03 AM, Nikola M. wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/ 1/12 05:51 PM, Robin Axelsson wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm using an ATI Radeon Juniper card (HD5770) and I reported a little
>>>> over a
>>>> year ago that the screen went black as Xorg starts when using the radeon
>>>> driver on OI 148. The solution was to ditch the radeon driver and use
>>>> the VESA
>>>> driver in its stead.
>>>>
>>> Best thing one can do with AMD graphics on Solaris/Illumos and
>>> Openindiana is to
>>> get rid of it,
>>> and get Nvidia graphics card that actually have proprietary binary
>>> drivers for
>>> Solaris/Opensolaris based OS'es.
>>>
>>
>> For Solaris, I fully agree that the nvidia driver is the way to go for
>> performance, features, & stability.   For illumos-based distros, I cannot
>> guarantee that nvidia's driver will always continue to work, as it does
>> depend on some private interfaces of the Solaris kernel, and if those
>> evolve and illumos version of gfx-private does not, it may not always
>> work.   (It probably will as long as older Solaris 10 releases are
>> supported,
>> but that's not going to be forever, though it's more likely any card you
>> buy today will move to a nvidia legacy driver before the main branch drops
>> Solaris 10 support.)
>>
>>  Maybe best thing would be to bring more people to KMS Illumos
>>> implementation and porting radeon and other drivers.
>>>
>>
>> That's really the only viable way for illumos & openindiana to get and
>> continue graphics driver support now.
>>
>>
> That sounds pretty bleak to me. It's as if one is not supposed to use a
> graphics card when running OpenIndiana.
>
> In all honesty, as for features I'm happy even if I get a crappy picture
> on the card, when I boot into OI I barely use the GPU anyway. But I would
> really like to mufflle that fan as the noise from it really is polluting
> the (indoor) environment.
>
> I've never heard of 'KMS Illumos' before, what is KMS anyway and what does
> it stand for? It would be great if someone could clue me in.
>
> If someone could give me pointers on how to compile individual drivers
> from source (particularly where to (w)get that source without getting the
> entire distro) on OpenIndiana and install them I could try to hack
> something up. My time and experience is rather limited but I could give it
> a try. I guess I could try to get a hold of the Solaris Internals book.
>
>
>
>
KMS :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_mode-setting


Thank you very much .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk