[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster upgrade 18-feb-2015

[Jonathan Adams]

I'll tar up the source/exe tomorrow and upload to my google drive ...
Downside is you'll get to see how bad my hack is :-)
On 9 Apr 2015 08:46, "Nikola M" <minikola at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/26/15 01:38 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
>
>> I got fed up one evening, and then I remembered working with Intel on my
>> old Solaris 10 desktop, and needing to set the resolution with
>> "915resolution" ...
>>
>> I went back to my old files and found it, downloaded the "newer" version
>> from 2007, made some changes to it and got a working 915resolution for
>> Illumos that allows the modes to be set.
>>
>> I then de-installed the intel driver from hipster, set the resolution and
>> have vesa working at 1280x800.
>>
>> obviously not the perfect answer, but since the hardware acceleration on
>> the old intel driver (on the old intel card) wasn't the best, I have a
>> working, updated version of OI on my laptop, with no sticky's.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>  Hi, I'd like to use 915resolution to get past 1024x768 on VESA/intel.
>
> I found some sources (http://915resolution.mango-lang.org/download.html)
> but I doubt it would work unchanged.
> What you changed in 915resolution, so 915resolutiion could be included in
> OI maybe?
>
> Sticking to old X and intel was disabled anyway by compilation of Hipster,
> depending on x11 libraries inside newer X incorporation, so most
> applications can't install without newer X...
>
> I think that intel driver should help with speed and video etc,
> I see that Oracle provided
>