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Subject: Re: DRI - Direct Rendering
From: Eric Anholt <eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu>
To: Gavin Kenny <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk>
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On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 04:08, 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

Did you have both of those lines in?  Direct rendering does not work
with just DefaultDepth 24 (or with just the --depth 24 or whatever it is
on the command line).  If it still doesn't work, I would guess it's due
to a lack of memory, but I don't know enough about your system.




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