On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Manuel McLure wrote: >Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:36:38 -0800 >From: Manuel McLure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Mike A . Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: Detlef Grittner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 >Subject: Re: [Xpert]Re: tdfx driver crashes when changing resolutions
It is an additional datapoint. Since I help at least 3 people a day on average get over this problem, when i spot Voodoo 3 mentioned and a certain range of problems, I offer the advise, as it usually is helpful, either to that person, or to someone else reading having Voodoo 3 problems. >How does this affect Voodoo 5? Also, note that the only case I see a >problem is when switching resolutions - otherwise it's rock-solid. > >> Voodoo 3 requires depth 16 for DRI. In addition, if you even >> have a resolution higher than 1024x768 configured in 16 bit depth >> while DRI is enabled in the config file, you will experience >> a nasty boom. This is a limitation of X's resource management >> mainly. DRI requires gobs of RAM, and even if you use 640x480 >> for DRI, if you've got 1280x1024 or something configured, you >> still get boom. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
