ColorTiling breaks output on G5

Andreas IOBuf at gmx.de
Tue Feb 8 09:17:29 PST 2005


Hi,

> This might not actually be a problem with endianness (could be), but
> with color tiling on r300. It should work on r200 and r100 chip
> families, but it could well fail on r300. In fact that it's enabled on
> r300 is an accident (I forgot to disable it on these chips when I
> decided to enable it by default).

I am not sure if it helps but my computer (x86) uses a FireGL T2 chip and I 
have to turn the color tiling off. If I don't, it produces the aforementioned 
stripes.

> There could be mostly two problems why it wouldn't work on r300 I think,
> either the surface info regs might need to be set up differently (they
> need different setup for r100 and r200 too so that wouldn't be
> surprising), or the blitter needs to be configured differently when
> uploading data (this one is the same for r100 and r200 though). Of
> course it could be both...

If you have patches to test any of the possibilities I would try them if you 
like.

Bye
 Andreas



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