On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:49:58 -0800, Nolan Leake wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 16:36, 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.
> 
> The previous shadowfb code blocked EnableDisableFBAccess and updated on
> VT switching.  Since the code looked stale (I couldn't find where the
> screen got stored in the backing pixmap anywhere), I disabled it for the
> vmware driver, but since I didn't have a way to test the other clients
> of shadowfb, I preserved the old behavior for them.
> 
> If having ShadowFBInit call ShadowFBInit2 with FALSE works for all
> clients, then the fbIsVirtual flag can be removed entirely; the only
> caller of ShadowFBInit2 is vmware.c, and it passes in FALSE.

O.k. Thanks Nolan.

I've just removed that code from the CVS.

Alan.
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