On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, ron wrote:

> Anyone knows about the X and Y coordinates in the ATI driver ( ie
> ATIMach64MaxX = 8191,
> ATIMach64MaxX = 32767 ).
> Why is this hard coded?  Is it for perfomance issues?  If you create an
> object greather than this values, How would X displays this object?

These are the limits imposed by the acceleration engine on the virtual
resolution, i.e. there are hardware limits.  Any attempt to draw beyond
these is clipped by the server long before the driver ever sees the
request.

Marc.

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