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I am using Suse 8.0 with the latest nvidia with Asus GF2 32mb DDR but I cant get the system to use a color depth of 24 while keeping 3D support. Yast2 loads the 3D support fine but only lets me use 16 bpp. Sax2 will allow 24 bpp but for some reason seems to disable 3D support. Any ideas?
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I have seen this problem... That seem to be the way life is.... This should be fixed sometime in the next 10 years. -----Original Message----- From: marcus [mailto:marhol@netspace.net.au] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 10:30 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] 24bpp and 3D nvidia drivers I am using Suse 8.0 with the latest nvidia with Asus GF2 32mb DDR but I cant get the system to use a color depth of 24 while keeping 3D support. Yast2 loads the 3D support fine but only lets me use 16 bpp. Sax2 will allow 24 bpp but for some reason seems to disable 3D support. Any ideas? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com
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Well, the desktop defaults to 16 bit. However, if an app supports 24/32 bit rendering then it will display the depth. For instance. I play Tribes2 and other games on Linux. I the settings of Tribes to it has an option for 32 bits. Of course it's actually a 24 bit buffer the runs a 32 bit render (or something like that). It actually will give a 32 bit render. Im not sure how this works. Although, in windows, some games get very very cludgy if run higher than 16 bits - Like UT and OpenGL drivers, same for HalfLife. So, Rendering of the card and then the frame buffer it uses seems to be the key. The gui and nVidia drivers only work native 3d (gui based that is) in 16 bits. I do beleive that the Xwindows will handle 24, If you set the bit depth to 24 in kde it wont work, if you set the bit depth in some apps to 24 or 32 it will - providing the app supports the depth. Correct me if I'm wrong. This has just been my empirical observations. Cheers, Curtis. On Friday 10 May 2002 21:30, marcus wrote:
I am using Suse 8.0 with the latest nvidia with Asus GF2 32mb DDR but I cant get the system to use a color depth of 24 while keeping 3D support. Yast2 loads the 3D support fine but only lets me use 16 bpp. Sax2 will allow 24 bpp but for some reason seems to disable 3D support. Any ideas?
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