I am only able to start X with fbpp at 24 if I want depth to be 32. Setting both to 32 will not work. it gets the error reported in the 32bpp.log But yea, I dont care about 3d so this seems alright.
On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 04:54, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On 9 Jul 2002, Ed Sweetman wrote: > > > http://signal-lost.homeip.net/xconfig > > http://signal-lost.homeip.net/16bpp.log > > http://signal-lost.homeip.net/32bpp.log > > > > I start X with `xinit -- -dpi 100` > > > > from what Keith said it doesn't matter what resolution i'm on, Render > > can create an "alpha" layer as long as depth is not smaller than bpp. > > Mostly true, but render appears not to be implemented on the 8+24 overlay > mode (at least on the mga driver, I haven't tried the few other drivers > which support 2D overlays (not video overlays)). > > > I wasn't complaining, merely asking if I'd get alpha blending features > > from Render without being at 32 because of the message you've read in my > > 32bpp.log file. > > Sorry I was a bit unfriendly, I hadn't thought of ISPs swallowing your > replies... I'm a bit defensive about the mga driver since I've been > working on it for about 6 years. > > As Keith said, nothing supports depth 32 yet (although I'm looking > to see if I can add it to the mga driver). > xinit -- -dpi 100 -fbpp 32 would give you a framebuffer with 32bit > pixels but Render wouldn't see the extra bits. > > -- > Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna > > _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
