Does anyone see any reason why I shouldn't change ShadowFBInit
to pass FALSE?  This seems to be produce the original behavior.
Passing TRUE certainly doesn't.


                        Mark.


On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Mark Vojkovich wrote:

> 
>    I don't really know what the point of fbIsVirtual was.
> Apps that use ShadowFBInit need to repaint when entering
> the VT.  We didn't have the EnableDisableFBAccess stuff
> when I wrote shadowfb and the refresh at EnterVT was to
> catch the copy from the old root window backing pixmap.
> With EnableDisableFBAccess handling exposures, it shouldn't
> be needed anymore but we definitely don't want to 
> block EnableDisableFBAccess like the code is doing.
> 
> It seems like having ShadowFBInit call ShadowFBInit2 with
> FALSE is the correct behavior.  Experimentation shows
> this to remove the corruption.
> 
>                       Mark.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 06:57:27 -0500, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > > On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Guido Guenther wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 05:28:27PM -0500, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > > > [..snip..]
> > > > >       - Removal of old fullscreen update code (when VT switching)
> > > > >   Does that correspond with the breakage?
> > > > Yeah! Especially the above point looks suspicious. I'll see if I can
> > > > check out a version prior to this and see if it works later this week.
> > > > Thanks a lot,
> > > >  -- Guido
> > > 
> > >   Those modifications did:
> > > 
> > >  static Bool
> > > @@ -206,17 +271,9 @@ ShadowEnterVT(int index, int flags)
> > >  {
> > >      ScrnInfoPtr pScrn = xf86Screens[index];
> > >      ShadowScreenPtr pPriv = GET_SCREEN_PRIVATE(pScrn->pScreen);
> > > -    BoxRec box;
> > >  
> > >      if((*pPriv->EnterVT)(index, flags)) {
> > >         pPriv->vtSema = TRUE;
> > > -
> > > -       box.x1 = box.y1 = 0;
> > > -       box.x2 = pScrn->pScreen->width;
> > > -       box.y2 = pScrn->pScreen->height;
> > > -
> > > -       (*pPriv->refresh)(pScrn, 1, &box);
> > > -
> > >          return TRUE;
> > >      }
> > > 
> > >   Which appears to prevent the shadowfb code from repainting the
> > > screen when entering the VT.  I don't know why that modification was 
> > > made.  It will clearly leave a messed up screen when switching back.
> > > I've just reproed that on x86.
> > > 
> > >    Does anyone know why that was removed?  It seems erroneous. 
> > 
> > Thinking some more,
> > 
> > The above code should probably be put back and wrapped with
> > 
> > if (fbIsVirtual) {
> >     ....
> >     ...
> > }
> > 
> > Is Nolan Leake around here to comment ?
> > 
> > Alan.
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