question about the new intel driver

[JM Ibanez]

Dries Kimpe <Dries.Kimpe at cs.kuleuven.be> writes:

>   I noticed that using a max screen size of >2048 disables DRI on my
> intel mobile 945GM graphics chip;
>
> Is this a hardware limitation, or a limitation of the driver? The source
> code (i830_driver.c) seems to suggest that only a 965 can handle DRI at
> these resolutions.
>
> 2048 looks reasonable, but these days, using a dual monitor setup, 2048 is not
> that much...

It's a hardware limitation that can be worked-around in the driver,
although the code to do that isn't as of yet been written.

See
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-March/022938.html

for an answer by Keith Packard regarding this.

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JM Ibanez
Software Architect
Orange & Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co.

jm at orangeandbronze.com
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