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

[Jonathan Adams]

Rebooted into Solaris during an Ubuntu upgrade ... it's just quicker to use
Ubuntu at home, and better to work in Solaris when I'm being serious ...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6o_jmGQm0dWMTgyZmNZWU51QXM/view?usp=sharing

hopefully it'll work for you, although you might need to add/edit
"get_chipset" in 915resolution.c to add your chipset.


On 12 April 2015 at 17:18, Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>