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.



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