On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 11:10:02AM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > > If your graphics controller is limited by memory bandwidth, the maximum pixel > > clock depends on the number of bits per pixels, since larger pixels mean more > > memory bandwidth. > > I'm unclear on the differences between 24 bpp and 32 bpp and how this > relates to internal pixmap format. Some hardware uses a "packed-pixel format"; that is, 4 24-bit pixels are encoded in 3 32-bit words (what Intel calls "DWORDS", I think). Other hardware tosses in a zero byte with every 32-bit "DWORD" transfer. -- G. Branden Robinson | The last time the Republican Party Debian GNU/Linux | was on the right side of a social branden@debian.org | issue, Abe Lincoln was president. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Kirk Tofte
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