From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 19 10:13:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2745637B405; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:13:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from wrzx35.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (wrzx35.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.3.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E175543F93; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:13:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from q@uni.de) Received: from wrzx30.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (wrzx30.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.1.30]) by wrzx35.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8/uniwue-MM-1.05) with ESMTP id TAA452769; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:13:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from virusscan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wrzx30.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A094713C; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:13:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from wrzx07.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de ([132.187.1.7]) by virusscan (wrzx30 [132.187.1.30:25]) (amavisd-new) with ESMTP id 03245-03; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:13:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from spamchecker (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wrzx07.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 692D6471C; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:13:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from coyote.local (gb-007.galgenberg.net [132.187.222.7]) by wrzx07.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19233466A; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:13:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from roadrunner.local (roadrunner [192.168.0.147]) by coyote.local (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2JID6Fd091587; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:13:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from q@roadrunner.local) Received: from roadrunner.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by roadrunner.local (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2JID5vb000461; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:13:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from q@roadrunner.local) Received: (from q@localhost) by roadrunner.local (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h2JID5Sw000456; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:13:05 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:13:04 +0100 From: Ulrich Spoerlein To: Doug Barton Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: XFree86 4.3.0 update Message-ID: <20030319181304.GC335@galgenberg.net> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Barton , stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200303180051.LAA03851@lightning.itga.com.au> <20030319003933.J88684@znfgre.tberna.bet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030319003933.J88684@znfgre.tberna.bet> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-No-Archive: yes X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-50.1 required=8.0 tests=BAYES_30,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,LOCAL_CLIENT, PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.50-string_20021002 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50-string_20021002 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (Rechenzentrum Universitaet Wuerzburg) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 19.03.2003 at 00:40:41 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > > Make sure your X session is running with depth >=3D 16!!!! >=20 > I read an article from what should be a reliable source that said all > modern SVGA cards perform best at their maximum color depth, since that's > how they're optimized. _Probably_ true for 2D and Desktop usage (though I doubt it) and _definitely_ not true for 3D Usage (all those 32bit textures need to be transferred from Chip <-> RAM, the smaller they are the faster the card goes). So the 16 vs 32 bit case is clear. But it might be true that 8bit modes "suck" at newer hardware (because of emulation?) --H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+eLMwmArGtfDbn0QRAiSBAJ0T6Hke9TTJekztUrUjkMOa1pbTBACcChAc iIGmoMxn22WKuHgd5yR0dMU= =cOn2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message