On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Jeff Brubaker wrote:

> Unfortunately, X comes up with a root window size of 1600x1024 (reported by
> xdpyinfo) but is really only outputting 1280x1024 (reported by my SGI
> MultiLink adapter).  All of this flows through a Radeon VE to my SGI 1600SW
> flat panel (DVI).

When I was looking for a dvi card for my SGI 1600SW, I thought I read
that the Radeon didn't official support that resolution; maybe the driver
now supports the resolution limit on the card :-(

> Oh, and just to put every question in a single e-mail, thus making it
> difficult to find in mailing list archives, even in 24bpp, pixmaps appear to
> be 16bpp.  My web page, for example, looks substantially different between my
> S3 based notebook in 24bpp and my Radeon VE based desktop in 24bpp.  Is there
> a pixmap depth limitation in the radeon driver?

That log file says that the config file requested 16bpp :-)
It also says that it is using the DAC in 6bit mode, which would not help.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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