Hello:
Sridhar M.A. wrote,
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:52:28AM +0530, Kingsly John wrote:
> >
> > I recently tried 16bpp(to eliminate monitor noise) and felt that the
> > games looked a lot richer at 24bpp.
> >
> That is understandable beacuse of the number of colours. I too would
> like to run at 24/32 bpp. But,
> gl spectrum under xmms is slooow.
Use the Mesa "gears" demo (glxgears in Debian and FreeBSD).
> At 16bpp, it flies. Is it due to dri or due to reduced number of
> colours, I have to find out by disbaling dri and checking. In regular
> work, 16bpp should be more than sufficient.
For regular work, you _dont_ need DRI at all. DRI does not influence 2D
rendering in anyway. When it comes to games, it's a compromise b/w
playability and quality rendering.
-- Shanu
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