On 24/03/13 17:56, Gary Martin wrote:
Physics still has the top of screen problem on XO-1.75 but is working very well
on XO-4.
How critical do you think this one is?
It's quite annoying if you happen to build something in physics that
extends to the top of the screen and certainly doesn't look good when
you show people the laptop.
I have a patch from John that fixes this, it's related to hardware driver frame
buffer support issues, but at the cost of some memory & performance cycles.
Basically it removes pygame default screen buffering feature and does the buffering
manually – no more white flicker at the top of the XO-1.75 redraw cycle, but not
for free.
Is this as a workaround for a bug in pygame and/or the graphics drivers?
Can you isolate the change to XO-1.75 only? The other hardware seems to
work fine and doesn't need a performance hit.
Are you able to synchronize with the vertical blanking interrupt? I once
wrote a hack for an Amiga with an add-on graphics card that didn't drive
the vertical blank interrupt to busy wait until the vertical blank
started. It had a timer and kept the busy wait period small but not so
small that it would miss the start of the vblank.. This stopped icons
flickering when you dragged them.
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