On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 08:03:20AM +0800, Tan Wei Chong wrote: > Dear all, > > What exactly happen during a VT switching with say Ctrl-Alt-F2 ? > I mean how does the Xserver yield all its control over the display device such as >its access to frame buffer or overlay to console ? > Let say I have an application that continue to pump in video frame to the overlay >after the VT switch what would happen ? > I ask this because I'm curious about what happen to my Xv code when the user do a VT >switch ?
You should disable/stop/whatever what you are doing to the HW in the VTLeave code and re-enable it in VTEnter. Normally, the X driver save/restore the ful HW state during VTEnter/VTLeave. Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
