Re: Looking for a good video card to use in Xwindows.
Scott Stone (sstone@ume.pht.co.jp)
Tue, 19 May 1998 13:59:47 +0900 (JST)
On Mon, 18 May 1998, Steve Ki-Won Lee wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 1998, Chris wrote:
>
> > I've been using a S3 ViRGE 4 megabyte card very happily. I run X at
> > 1024x768 with 24bpp.
> >
> > It works fine with XFree86 3.3.2 and FreeBSD. I can't speak on behalf of
> > Linux.
> >
> > Chris
>
> While we're on the subject of X and vidcards..(I know this is an AS
> mailing list, so please forgive me) I was finally able to have my X run at
> 16bpp, up from 8, using XF86Setup. xf86config and Xconfigurator just
> wouldn't let me go above 8bpp.
>
> The question is, even though I have 4MB on my vidcard and I can't seem to
> run my X at 24bpp. Even after using XF86Setup, it only let's me run it at
> 16bpp. The card is STB's Velocity 128 (AGP), using nVidia (RIVA128)
> chipset. Is this the hardware limitation or am I missing something
> something that's preventing me to go higher than 16bpp?
The nVidia driver won't do it. Mostly because nVidia only released very
little of the register-level API to the guy that made the driver. Most
people have no access at all to this information, which kind of sucks.
Your 16bpp is only 15bpp, by the way :) another nVidia driver limitation.
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@pht.com, sstone@turbolinux.com>
<sstone@pht.co.jp>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc.
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