[Xorg-driver-geode] [PATCH 1/3] [GL]X: use 24bit depth by default

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello Martin,

2009/9/9 Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk at iki.fi>:
> Actually, setting 32-bit as the default is the wrong approach:
>
> 1) it is only a kludge for broken toolkits e.g. XFCE libraries.

It has problems with Qt as well.

> 2) it eats a lot of memory that might not be available on some
> hardware (remember: we have an UMA architecture).

This is a good point but I have no idea how to fix it elsewhere.

> That's why we had agreed with Jordan to use 16-bit as the default.

If we could discover the root cause of the problem it would be perfect.

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