On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 11:10:02AM -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
> > If your graphics controller is limited by memory bandwidth, the maximum 
> > pixel
> > clock depends on the number of bits per pixels, since larger pixels mean 
> > more
> > memory bandwidth.
> 
> I'm unclear on the differences between 24 bpp and 32 bpp and how this
> relates to internal pixmap format.

Some hardware uses a "packed-pixel format"; that is, 4 24-bit pixels are
encoded in 3 32-bit words (what Intel calls "DWORDS", I think).

Other hardware tosses in a zero byte with every 32-bit "DWORD" transfer.

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