On 7/30/07, Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:16:08AM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote:
> > On 7/30/07, Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:39:49PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 09:08:32PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 05:34:14PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > > > > > > Does this have to do with enabling dri (direct rendering
> > > > > > > interface? I remember that required 16 bits.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > today i accidentaly came to similar problem when upgrading my Xorg
> > > > > > and
> > > > > > drivers of graphic card - dri didnt initialize well and X fall back
> > > > > > from
> > > > > > hardware dri to some sofware version of rendering.
> > > > > > out of curiosity i tried lyx and it is unusable even for typing -
> > > > > > every
> > > > > > keystroke turn load to 100% for some 0.5 s or so...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > fortunately when dri is turned off, lyx is back to normal (while
> > > > > > stellarium etc is still unusable.)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > pavel
> > > > >
> > > > > OK thanks, I think this is significant... so qt + lyx (+X?)
> > > > > is not handling this case correctly.
> > > >
> > > > I just checked, on my machine (Acer notebook with Intel on-board
> > > > grpahics), recent Ubuntu, dri loaded it doesn't make a difference
> > > > whether the X server runs at 24 bpp or 16 bpp.
> > > >
> > > > Andre'
> > >
> > > The problem situation appears to be the one in which X
> > > enables DRI but the hardware (or driver code) cannot handle
> > > it and substitutes a software solution (?), which used to
> > > be the case for Fedora/24 bits. Apparently Ubuntu is
> > > smarter today.
> > >
> > > Question: do Google Earth, Stellarium etc run fast both
> > > for 24 and 16 bits on your system?
> > >
> > > - Martin
> >
> >
> > I have an iBook ppc so Google Earth in unavailable, but I ran
> > Stellarium under 24 and 16 bit and there is a very very big
> > difference. The 24 bit setting makes Stellarium unusable, while under
> > 16 bit it seems to run just fine.
> >
> > Bob
>
> Right. Can you turn DRI completely off? Then LyX should work
> fine again also for 24 bpp.
>
> - Martin
How do you turn DRI off? In xorg.conf I have:
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Do I just comment out this section?
I know my graphics card is supposed to be 16bit so I want to keep that setting.
Thanks,
Bob Lounsbury
