On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 05:41:23PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 17:09, Jim Gettys wrote: > > > > While the X server has had the XSync extension for a long time, > > the operating system "hooks" to allow X to synchronize with > > external events (e.g. vertical sync, sample clock of audio > > streams, etc) have been absent in open source systems. XSync > > was developed in the days of engineering workstations 10 years > > ago, and was debugged with such kernel support. > > FWIW, the DRM has provided synchronization to the vertical refresh for a > while.
Indeed. But it's presented through the OpenGL interface, whereas using XSync would allow non-OpenGL apps to use this extension and get that facility. Alan. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
