I think this is a hardware limitation, except for I965 which has 8192x8192 MAX TEXTURE SIZE
To enable this, you need to patch Mesa DRI driver according to instruction found in this blog: http://soundmonster.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/dual-head-with-compiz-and-i965-on-ubuntu-intrepid/ On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:37 AM, aporter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > This Intel DRI limitation, whether it be hardware or driver, still > exists in Jaunty and Karmic. > > When I put two 1280x1024 monitors side-by-side, I see: > (EE) intel(0): Cannot support DRI with frame buffer width > 2048. > and glxinfo says software rendering > When I put them one-above-the-other, I get full 2d hardware rendering and > glxinfo says Mesa DRI Intel. > > My only question is this: If this is a hardware limitation, with the > Intel chipset, why isn't this also a limitation in WinXP? Am I > misunderstanding something? OSX is mentioned above in the same vein, > but the question wasn't really answered. One of the other duplicates to > this bug mentioned the absence of the limitation in windows (Bug > #360713). > > I've looked around on the web, and I think this limitation is possible > to work around ( > http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2008-June/036151.html > mentions two frame-buffers). > > Thanks. > > -- > No dri (and therefore no compiz) for virtual screen greater than 2048x2048 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146859 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > -- No dri (and therefore no compiz) for virtual screen greater than 2048x2048 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146859 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
