[NBLUG/talk] Direct Render Support

[Christopher Wagner]

Interestingly enough, even flat panel displays for desktop computers
usually don't start having more than 1024x768 pixels until you're
looking at 17" displays.  Hell, even my 19" Viewsonic maxes at
1280x1024.  Though it's a very beautiful 1280x1024, mind you. :)

Though, I have seen laptops with higher resolutions, I think that
usually is due to wide-screens.  I've got a Dell Latitude D600 here with
a 15" display and that's only running 1024x768 actual resolution, too.

- Chris

Stephen Cilley wrote:

>Just the same, at 32 bits it's only an even 3 megs,
>which still isn't 8, though you're probably right
>about there being other things to store in VRAM.  It'd
>be interesting to find out exactly what the
>composition of the RAM is right now.  Either way... IT
>WORKS! ^_^
>My display has exactly 1024x768 pixels, and it's
>driving me crazy that it doesn't have 1280, but I keep
>telling myself: you got what you paid for, don't
>bitch.
>Anyway, thanks for the helpful comments,
>Stephen
>
>
>--- Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:
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>>(Jumping in here, apologies)
>>
>>On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:18:30PM -0800, Stephen
>>Cilley wrote:
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>>>Ok, I went onto IRC today I got this all squared
>>>      
>>>
>>away.
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>>>It seems that 1024x768 at 24 bit pixel depth is
>>>      
>>>
>>just
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>>>too much for the IBM T22 (s3 Savage IX) as it has
>>>      
>>>
>>only
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>>>8 megs of VRAM.  I'm not sure how that math works
>>>      
>>>
>>out
>>    
>>
>>>(1024x768 [res] X 24 [pixel depth] = 18874368
>>>      
>>>
>>[total
>>    
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>>>bits] / 8 = 2359296 [total bytes] / 1024 = 2304
>>>      
>>>
>>[total
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>>>KB] so like 2.25 megs...
>>>      
>>>
>>Dunno the details of the s3 chipset, but typically
>>computers
>>like working with even numbers, so often 24bpp ends
>>up requiring
>>32 bits per pixel.  8 just go unused.  (The even
>>number her being
>>the number of Bytes per pixel... 4 instead of 3.)
>>
>>Backing store and 3D texture space may also be
>>considerations.
>>
>>Also, though, as a laptop, can your _display_ pump
>>out 1024x768?
>>If it doesn't have more physical pixels than that,
>>it probably
>>cannot. :)
>>
>>-- 
>>-bill!
>>bill at newbreedsoftware.com
>>http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/
>>
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