Hi,

I've just bought a W1100z equipped with NVIDIA Quadro NVS280
with Solaris 9 pre-installed. Soon after I finished the initial setup,
I found the graphics is extremely slow. xengine shows only 530rpm!

I've installed Solaris 10 x86 3/05. But, no speed improvement can be seen.
Linux with nvidia driver is about 36 times faster on the
same machine. (nv driver was also very slow under Linux.
I've had the same experience on another Opteron system.)

How can I make the graphics fast enough to use?
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hg2005n@rd.isc.tohoku.ac.jp writes:

At this time, you can't make it run faster.

We're currently testing the "nvidia" driver under
Solaris and the improvement is said to be spectacular.

Casper
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Thanks.
I'll keep the Solaris 10 running and wait for the
driver.

(And, eh..., GL support please.)

Casper.Dik@Sun.COM writes:
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hg2005n@rd.isc.tohoku.ac.jp writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|I've just bought a W1100z equipped with NVIDIA Quadro NVS280
|with Solaris 9 pre-installed. Soon after I finished the initial setup,
|I found the graphics is extremely slow. xengine shows only 530rpm!
|
|I've installed Solaris 10 x86 3/05. But, no speed improvement can be seen.
|Linux with nvidia driver is about 36 times faster on the
|same machine. (nv driver was also very slow under Linux.
|I've had the same experience on another Opteron system.)

Solaris 9 & 10 currently only ship with the "nv" open source driver,
same as the one you find so slow under Linux. Sun & nVidia are working
to bring the same much faster "nvidia" closed source driver & OpenGL
stack to Solaris soon. (We're testing it inside Sun right now.)

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Alan Coopersmith wrote:

The NVS280 is a professional 2D card, so if you are mostly doing 3D work
you may prefer a video card designed specifically for 3D. This won't
matter much in the mean time until the new driver set is out.

Alan Coopersmith <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|hg2005n@rd.isc.tohoku.ac.jp writes in comp.unix.solaris:
||I've just bought a W1100z equipped with NVIDIA Quadro NVS280
||with Solaris 9 pre-installed. Soon after I finished the initial setup,
||I found the graphics is extremely slow. xengine shows only 530rpm!
||
||I've installed Solaris 10 x86 3/05. But, no speed improvement can be seen.
||Linux with nvidia driver is about 36 times faster on the
||same machine. (nv driver was also very slow under Linux.
||I've had the same experience on another Opteron system.)
|
|Solaris 9 & 10 currently only ship with the "nv" open source driver,
|same as the one you find so slow under Linux. Sun & nVidia are working
|to bring the same much faster "nvidia" closed source driver & OpenGL
|stack to Solaris soon. (We're testing it inside Sun right now.)

And now you too can have it for Solaris 10:
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

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Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Just nit picking...

Shouldn't it show up under the TNT2/GeForce downloads as well. I
understand that Sun only resells the Quadro cards, but in terms on John
Q. Public who is trying Solaris 10 on his Dell box, it might be nice for
him to know that it works with his GeForce 4 MX.

And as far as I can tell, the Linux driver is the same for Quadro and
TNT2/GeForce.

Neal

"Neal A. Lucier" <nlucier@math.purdue.edu> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|Alan Coopersmith wrote:
|> And now you too can have it for Solaris 10:
|> http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
|
|Just nit picking...
|
|Shouldn't it show up under the TNT2/GeForce downloads as well. I
|understand that Sun only resells the Quadro cards, but in terms on John
|Q. Public who is trying Solaris 10 on his Dell box, it might be nice for
|him to know that it works with his GeForce 4 MX.

There's various reasons for that - mostly business related and not
technical, which have already been explained in depth on the solarisx86
yahoogroups list this morning - see that thread so I don't have to
repeat them here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisx86/message/25045
(mostly the replies to that message linked at the bottom)

While you're there, some tips to speed it up even further on certain
systems can be found in the replies to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisx86/message/25046

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Great!!!

I've just installed the binary on my new W1200z w/ 5.10 -- works GREAT
and no config of the xorg config file was even necessary!!