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
> 
> 


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