On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 07:31:46AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> Now, I happen to have a Riva TNT2 and am just trying to get hardware
> accelerated Mesa to work. One mysterious thing is: the stuff from NVidia
> claims it would only do 3D hardware acceleration when used in 15- or 16bit
> mode, while the XSVGA server from our xsrc only seems to support 8bit (not
> realy working) and 32bit color depth on this hardware.

Works just fine for me on my TNT2 card, including GLX. OpenGL performance
with 16bit is pretty good. I have not updated my X sources for about a month,
so I'm still using XFree86 3.3.3.x, but it seems unlikely that 16bit
support broke since then.

- Frank