On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 davidek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > > This isn't surprising. Backingstore doesn't guarantee that > > you won't get expose events. It merely attempts to reduce them > > by saving occluded bits. When the server switches away to another > > VT everything in the framebuffer is lost. Backing store allowed > > it to recover the occluded bits that it saved earlier. I believe > > this is the expected behavior. People didn't have VT switches back > > when backing store was designed. > > Ok, thanks, but on other systems it works, i.e. even with backingstore > enabled one does not loose the graphical window content when switching VT > there and back. So my question is: how can I recover the "usual" > behaviour? > > Regards > Tomas Which "other systems" are you refering to? To my knowledge there is no official X-Window behavior with regards to VT switches. Mark. > > E-mail : davidek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, > Tomas.Davidek@xxxxxxx > > > > > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 davidek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > I noticed a problem maybe related to backingstore option with the > > > release 4.4.0. My XF86Config-4 looks like: > > > Section "Device" > > > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > > > Driver "i810" > > > # BusID "PCI:0:2:0" > > > VideoRam 65536 > > > Option "BackingStore" "true" > > > Option "DisplayInfo" "FALSE" > > > EndSection > > > > > > I have the "famous" i855GM chip, so I had to introduce the displayinfo > > > option as already mentioned in several posts in this list. > > > > > > The backingstore itself works well, i.e. if a graphical window hides below > > > some other one it still keeps its content, but when switching back to > > > the text console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and back, the content is lost. What's funny > > > is that the content is actually preserved in the part of the window which > > > was overlapped, the rest (that was on the top when switching there and > > > back) gets empty. > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
