How easy is it to use the porting kit?
it, but here’s a quote from Johanna Doran’s email to me: I just want to offer another EASIER alternative solution for getting XFree86 to work with Solaris: the Sun Video Drivers and Porting Kit. I was a complete newbie when I went and installed Solaris on my Intel box, only to find my monitor was not supported. I made SEVERAL unsuccessful attempts to install the XFree86 drivers. Finally I ran into someone who worked at Sun who said to try the porting kit. Got it on the FIRST try. You download, un-zip the files, install two patches and two packages, go to kdmconfig and voila! all the XFree drivers appear. If none of the drivers are for your card, select the VESA option and it works for MOST common monitors. If I had seen this Porting Kit before and knew how EASY it was to install, I wouldn’t have gone through having to re-install Solaris. I mean EASY. Additional drivers that were built using the porting kit are available from: http://www.tools.
I just want to offer another EASIER alternative solution for getting XFree86 to work with Solaris: the Sun Video Drivers and Porting Kit. I was a complete newbie when I went and installed Solaris on my Intel box, only to find my monitor was not supported. I made SEVERAL unsuccessful attempts to install the XFree86 drivers. Finally I ran into someone who worked at Sun who said to try the porting kit. Got it on the FIRST try. You download, un-zip the files, install two patches and two packages, go to kdmconfig and voila! all the XFree drivers appear. If none of the drivers are for your card, select the VESA option and it works for MOST common monitors. If I had seen this Porting Kit before and knew how EASY it was to install, I wouldn’t have gone through having to re-install Solaris. I mean EASY. Additional drivers that were built using the porting kit are available from: http://www.tools.
it, but here’s a quote from Johanna Doran’s email to me: I just want to offer another EASIER alternative solution for getting XFree86 to work with Solaris: the Sun Video Drivers and Porting Kit. I was a complete newbie when I went and installed Solaris on my Intel box, only to find my monitor was not supported. I made SEVERAL unsuccessful attempts to install the XFree86 drivers. Finally I ran into someone who worked at Sun who said to try the porting kit. Got it on the FIRST try. You download, un-zip the files, install two patches and two packages, go to kdmconfig and voila! all the XFree drivers appear. If none of the drivers are for your card, select the VESA option and it works for MOST common monitors. If I had seen this Porting Kit before and knew how EASY it was to install, I wouldn’t have gone through having to re-install Solaris. I mean EASY. Additional drivers that were built using the porting kit and binaries are available from: http://www.tools.
it, but here’s a quote from Johanna Doran’s email to me: I just want to offer another EASIER alternative solution for getting XFree86 to work with Solaris: the Sun Video Drivers and Porting Kit. I was a complete newbie when I went and installed Solaris on my Intel box, only to find my monitor was not supported. I made SEVERAL unsuccessful attempts to install the XFree86 drivers. Finally I ran into someone who worked at Sun who said to try the porting kit. Got it on the FIRST try. You download, un-zip the files, install two patches and two packages, go to kdmconfig and voila! all the XFree drivers appear. If none of the drivers are for your card, select the VESA option and it works for MOST common monitors. If I had seen this Porting Kit before and knew how EASY it was to install, I wouldn’t have gone through having to re-install Solaris. I mean EASY.
