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Hello,

On Jul 28, 2006, at 02:12, Paul (NCC/CS). wrote:

>
> Thanks Michael,
>
> fascinating stuff!   very confusing.
>
> It has a line :
> (--) ATI(0): 2048 kB of SGRAM (1:1) detected (using 2047 kB).
>
> so perhaps that means that the vidram is 2MB ?  shock horror...

All U5 and U10 mainboards with a Rage II have only 2MB VRAM - newer 
boards have a Rage Pro and 4MB VRAM.

> If so it's now doing pretty well.
> What I mean by graphics suffering is that I ran 1280 x 1024
> on an LCD display and then ran dillo browser. Which worked.
> Only the images were degraded.

With 2MB VRAM you can only get 8 bit colour at this resolution.

> Usually a symptom of not enough ram. Anyhow after mucking about all 
> DAY!  i now
> have 1152x864  at 16bpp  !  And it doesn't look too bad! :)
> of course intel machine is 1280x1024 with umpteen bpp
> but something about this sun sparc64 is such a buzz with
> even moderate achievement. what is that? i dunno, hack
> value i suppose...

You may want a Creator board. It's a lot faster in most operations ( 
slower in a few, like moving windows, but for instance anti-aliased 
text rendering is MUCH faster thanks to hardware-accelerated 
alpha-blending and a much, much faster bus )
Besides that it would allow higher resolutions in 24bit.

have fun
Michael
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