On Fri, July 28, 2006 08:35, Michael wrote:
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> Hello,
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> On Jul 28, 2006, at 02:12, Paul (NCC/CS). wrote:
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>> Thanks Michael,
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>> fascinating stuff!   very confusing.
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>> It has a line :
>> (--) ATI(0): 2048 kB of SGRAM (1:1) detected (using 2047 kB).
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>> so perhaps that means that the vidram is 2MB ?  shock horror...
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> All U5 and U10 mainboards with a Rage II have only 2MB VRAM - newer
> boards have a Rage Pro and 4MB VRAM.
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>> 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.
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> With 2MB VRAM you can only get 8 bit colour at this resolution.
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>> 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...
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> 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.

I have a PGX64 (a PCI ATI Rage XL) from which I get 1280x1024x24 - it has
8Mo if I remember well. It works quite well.
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> have fun Michael
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