Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Anyone know why: Mesa 3.3 defaults to 24bit Zbuffer?

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On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Daniel Vogel wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 02:35:49PM -0600, Brian Paul wrote:
> >
> > > yes, it works fine, but what I wonder is: how does fxMesa respond when
> > > asked to set a 24bit zbuffer on a card that doesn't support it!?
> > 
> > I think it's only reporting 24bits/z but really using 16.
> 
> Why that?

I would assume that either the fxMesa ignores the 24 and uses 16, or
fails at 24, goes down to 16, and doesn't report 16?
But I think Brian should answer that, not me :)


BTW, good job on all your guys' conversions/ports over there are Loki! (at
least the ones' i have tried out)

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