Re: [Dri-devel] new 2048 limit code...

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 12:27, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> Eric Anholt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 17:27, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > 
> >>perhaps we can not disable the DRI if mergedfb is active and the viral
> >>is larger than 2048?

It was only MergedFB which made this necessary...

> > Maybe in the 3d driver you could fall back to software on grabbing the
> > lock if the width is too large?
> 
> Better still would be to have the 3d driver subdivide cliprects larger than 
> width 2048, and adjust the origin cooridnates to make it work.

Interesting idea.

I think we should keep the status quo until the 3D drivers can deal with
this though, to avoid confusion with users who don't know the details.


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