radeon/r200 color tiling ddx / drm questions

Roland Scheidegger rscheidegger_lists at hispeed.ch
Tue Jan 11 11:20:31 PST 2005


Roland Scheidegger wrote:
>> If tiling doesn't work with all resolutions, shouldn't those 
>> resolutions be discarded in the first place if tiling is enabled?
> 
> It just seemed to be a little harsh to throw them out altogether - some 
> people might like to use small (doublescan) physical resolutions for 
> some OGL apps for speed reasons for instance, which would mean they'd 
> need to restart the X server with tiling disabled just for that.
> There's also some problem with that (mode validation happens before
> options parsing, not sure how easy that would be to fix).
Oh nevermind. Just saw there are plenty of Preinit routines where you 
can do options parsing... I must be blind ;-).

Roland



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