Re: X-windows/Trio64/16 bit colours

[Oleg Krivosheev <kriol@fnal.gov>]

Hi,

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> 
> > > Please, is there someone here that has an Debian box, whith X-Windows
> > > (Xfree 3.3) and an Trio 64 video card, runing whith 16 bit colours?
> > 
> > yes, i am
> > 
> > works just fine in 16bpp, 1024x768.
> > 
> > > 
> > > I ask becouse I have problems to work whith that configuration (in eight
> > > bit colours I have not problem) :the resolution go down very much and
> > > the screen flicker.
> > 
> > looks like high resolution 16bpp asks for too much bandwidth.
> Because the newer S3 servers limit the bandwith in 16bpp. There is a
> constant in the server which can be increased. Unfortunately it is very
> demanding to recompile the X server. Because that I've made a binary patch
> to mine (very ugly thing to do, but for me it works). I can dig out how to
> do that patch to your server, or send my binary and config file.
> Warning: the XF86 people had a good reason to do that limitation. You can
> burn out your ramdac with this patch, if you are unlucky enough.

hmm...

The original claim was it works on the same hardware
under RH 4.2. Or i misunderstood something?

regards

OK


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