Re: [LI] Downgrading pppd & lpd??

[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Rohit wrote:

> Correct me if I am wrong. He will get nothing better than 800x600x16 in
> any case anywhere using any os.

800 * 600 * 1byte(8bits)   / 1024 =  468.75 KB
800 * 600 * 2bytes(16bits) / 1024 =  937.50 KB
800 * 600 * 3bytes(24bits) / 1024 = 1406.25 KB

1024* 768 * 1byte(8bits)   / 1024 =  768.00 KB
1024* 768 * 2bytes(16bits) / 1024 = 1536.00 KB
1024* 768 * 3bytes(24bits) / 1024 = 2304.00 KB

1 MB = 1024 KB

Some cards do VRAM compression, but I think the above holds generally true
for most cases.

> :-( I have a Yamaha. OPL+. Is it that bad a choice?

I wear size 10 shoes. It is a good choice for me, but could be bad for
someone with a size 6 foot. ;-)

Some Yamaha chipsets are supported, some are not. The guy I talked about
had an unsupported chipset (is supported by te commercial sound drivers
for Linux, though).

Atul


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