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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Gavin=20Kenny?= <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: DRI - Direct Rendering
To: Joe O <joeo@cracktown.com>
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 --- Joe O <joeo@cracktown.com> wrote: > You may have
mentioned this earlier in the thread
> but,
> How much memory is on the card, and what is the max
> resolution are you
> running it in (eg what is the max resolution that
> ctrl-atl-+ gets you)?
> 
> 

The spec sheet says 8MB, although the system reports
it as 64MB??

Resolution is 1024x768

I guess the lack of memory could be the reason for
dropping the DRI at 24bpp.

Gavin





> 
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, [iso-8859-1] Gavin Kenny wrote:
> 
> >  --- Eric Anholt <eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu>
> > wrote: > > Well we seem to be making progress.
> > dropping the
> > > bpp
> > > > to 16 in XF86Config and restarting the server
> > > gives me
> > > > a direct rendering enabled message in the log.
> :-)
> > > >
> > > > However my app (Java3D) doesan't seem to want
> to
> > > run
> > > > in anything below 24bpp. :-(
> > > >
> > > > mpd - How did you get your system to run in
> 24bpp?
> > > >
> > > > Gavin
> > > You want to have the lines:
> > >     DefaultDepth 24
> > >     DefaultFbbpp 32
> > >
> > > in your Screen section.
> > >
> >
> > Setting X to run at 24bpp is not the problem,
> getting
> > X to run at 24bpp AND have direct rendering
> enabled is
> > the problem. At the moment if I set bpp to 16
> direct
> > rendering is enabled; set bpp to 24 and direct
> > rendering becomes disabled??
> >
> > Any ideas as to why?
> >
> > Gavin
> >
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