Crazy question regarding refresh and X

[Jim Cornette]

Mike Klinke wrote:
> Ha!
>  
> I spoke a little too soon it seems.  After having got the box into 
> the 16 bit/DRI=no mode freeze-up I rebooted into FC1 (dual boot 
> machine with FC3T1) and while there I copied the 24 bit xorg 
> configuration for the FC3T1 back to the proper xorg.conf file in 
> anticipation of booting back into FC3T1.  When I did, what a 
> surprise that was! There in all its ugly glory was the all the 
> terrible refresh problems you've been describing. I'm guessing that 
> my playing put the graphics controller into a rather unhappy state.  
> Thankfully re-configuring the display back to "Thousands of Colors" 
> reset everything on the next boot.
> 
> I'm guessing that one of the problems that you are having is that 
> for some reason you cannot get your box into the 16 bit/DRI=yes 
> mode.
> 
> Regards, Mike Klinke
> 
> 


Quite an ugly picture. I doubt that this performance would bring anyone 
over to xorg-x11.
Thanks for the tests relating to dri. I use screen resolution 1280 x 
1024 which is max for the monitor type that I am using. This resolution 
setting might have soething to do with no DRI.
The 16 depth and this fair resolution seem to be the culprets.

I'm happy with 24 depth and 1280 x 1024 resolution. I can live without 
the DRI for now.

I read the info i810 documentation and saw the mention of 16 depth for 
DRI being a maximum setting for the 815 card.

I'm glad you noticed the depth being different between the 2 xorg.conf 
files posted. So no DRI at 16 depth seems to be bad for performance of 
the X server.

Jim
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