RE: X starts, but it displays strange things
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > I am very suspicious of the
> >
> > (--) R128(0): Virtual size is 800x600 (pitch 832)
> >
> > line below. There is a 25 step staircase of black lines that seem to be
> > due to the offsetting of each line, and 800/25 = 32. I'm going to have a
> > look at the xf source next to see what 'pitch' means.
>
> It's what you suspect: the offset between the start of consecutive scan
> lines in memory. No idea why the r128 driver would pick that pitch though.
Perhaps because the RAGE128 needs line lenghts that are multiples of 64?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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