Re: Hardware GL with a G400

[Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@informatics.muni.cz>]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:32:04PM -0500, Thomas E. Vaughan wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:32:08PM -0700, Michael Epting wrote:
> >
> >> Right.  The DRI implements hardware acceleration ONLY for 16 bpp.  I've
> >> tested it at various resolutions, and it is remarkably fast across the
> >> board.
> > 
> > My understanding is that if you add this to the Screen section of your
> > XF86Config-4, you can get DRI at 24 bpp:
> > 
> >         DefaultDepth     24
> >         DefaultFbBpp     32
> 
> Before Branden Robinson released the phase1 debs, I was using utah-glx
> along with XF3.3, and that's what I did.  When I switched to XF4.0,
> however, I was forced to retreat to 16 bpp in order to have hardware
> acceleration for 3D.  Perhaps the situation has changed without my having
> noticed.  Anyway, I won't be able to test that hypothesis until Monday.

No its still the same - I'm building latest CVS myself....

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