[V3tv-developer] Some not important question...

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Hi Lars and hi to all,

First be prepared for my bad english :-)
I'm the same guy of yesterday mail...
Now Xawtv works, today I've even make working the Direct Rendering
Infrastructure
to try the "soldier of fortune" game (I'm not an hard player but I think
that DRI could
be usefull even for other things).
I know that this mailing list is for the TV  and IN OUT capabilities of
the V3-3500 and
not for other purposes but since I think that only here I can find some
good expert of
this graphic card and since I've some curiosity I try to make some other
questions....

The Direct Rendering accelerations works only in 16bpp but xawtv need
(for my pc) 24 bpp so
if I want to play a game or to use an application with DRI and then
I want to see TV I have to switch
color depth and restart X.... this is not a big problem but...
Why voodoo 3 3500 has the DRI activated only in 16 bpp?
Is a technical limitation (due to the hardware memory ecc...) or is
because the DRI libraries
are still too "young"?
If I'm not in wrong under Windoz I could use even 24 and 32 bpp (not in
the game ok... the texture are 16 bpp
I think due to the architecture of the voodoo).

I'm not a technician as you can see, I'm a chemistry student and the
computers for me are only
an hobby so don't get angry if my questions are stupid.

By the way, the TV works even if in XF86config I use all the 16384 Kb of
videoram.

Thanks to all
Enrico (from italy)

ops... I was forgetting....
Under winzoz I've used the voodoo 4-5 driver and it works. I read about
it on an italian overclock site and so I've tried...
The people of the site said that with that driver the applications does
not draw the polygon that are not visible...I know, this procedure has a
name, but I don't rimember what :-)
I don't know if is it true or if now the games are faster anyway they
still works so I would like to know what do you think about this....

Byeeeeeeeee