Re: DRI for 3dFX Voodoo 4/5 and Xfree86 4.1.0
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:09:31PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> note that DefaultDepth 16 is required for voodoo3. That's the most
> annoying part - you cannot play games (or run other openGL programs)
> using same X session as you generally would prefer to run your other X
> apps in. That just plain sucks. Of ocurse, you can start X -depth 24 :1
> and work there, and then start X -depth 16 :0 a play games there (AFAIK
> the one with DRI has to be :0).
>
> Is this a HW problem of voodoo3 (I thought it supports 32 bit color
> interface, but has 16 bit color inside). Is there any better workaround?
> Any light in the future? Do other servers have same limitation?
The Voodoo3 only supports 32 bit color in 2D applications, i.e. X. In 3D
applications you are stuck with 16 bit color, this is a hardware
limitation and there is no way around it.
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