[OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD graphics for OI?

[srvr_mnk at srvr-tmpl.ikhider.com]

How does one fire up the VESA driver?

Would ATI/AMD contribute to provide some kind of drivers if asked?

There are two drivers for AMD (that I am aware of) MESA and AMD GPU PRO. 
The latter is needed for video production on Linux. MESA is not enough, 
and may be okay for gaming, but not video production. I have not managed 
to get AMD GPU PRO to work even though there are instructions on the AMD 
site. It is buggy and difficult. People on forums have tried to work 
through solutions but the consensus is that AMD needs to get their act 
together.

That said, perhaps there may be more luck (down the road) with AMD GPU 
PRO than MESA?

SM

On 02.05.2018 04:13, Michal Nowak wrote:
> On 05/02/2018 07:25 AM, srvr_mnk at srvr-tmpl.ikhider.com wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I know there are graphics drivers for Nvidea hardware, but my hardware 
>> is AMD.
>> 
>> What is the status for AMD grahics drivers on OI? Is it one of those 
>> long-term, "one day...when GNU HURD dominates the marketplace on 
>> consumer and enterprise systems".
>> 
>> SM
> 
> If you have (very) old enough graphics card, you may use the Xorg
> driver (it's either called 'ati', or 'radeon') and you should have all
> the functionality. For anything newer the functionality moved from the
> Xorg driver to kernel. So for OpenIndiana to have AMD GFX support, we
> would have to port the Linux code the way it was done with the Intel
> driver. Otherwise you have to stick with 'vesa' driver.
> 
> Michal
> 
> 
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