Re: Xfree86 video buffering?

[bkfsec <bkfsec () sdf lonestar org>]

Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> I don't think this is at all easily solvable - when the X server starts up, the
> card is probably in console mode using the VGA emulation, which is pretty
> brain-dead and doesn't touch much of the card memory (when you have 32M or 64M
> on-card, that 640x480 gets lonely sitting in the corner).  The X server first
> has to pop it into the native NVidia/ATI/whatever graphics mode (remember, it
> has to do that *before* it can access the video memory - you can't get there
> while still in VGA emulation).  Then it can proceed to clear out the on-card
> memory.  Unfortunately, if the X server pauses in between setting the mode and
> clearing  the memory, you get to see the uninitialized (and therefor left-over)
> buffers.  About the best you can do here is fix the server to try to not do any
> time-intensive operations between the mode set and the clear.
>
>  
Just a thought here... don't know if there are any complications with my 
suggestion here, but -- why not go the other route and clear the video 
memory as X is shutting down, such that there's no stale data left in 
the buffers?

         -Barry


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