On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 19:44, Ian Romanick wrote: > > Excluding the pageflip case, in the "current" setup we have an > offscreen backbuffer that needs to be copied to the frontbuffer. This > happens completely under the control of the 3D driver. With composite, > are both the backbuffer and the frontbuffer offscreen?
Yes. > In that case the 3D driver would just do a pointer swap and tell the > window manager / X-server (or whatever) to recomposite, right? Yes, I guess the 3D driver would have to notify the X server of the swap, then the server would swap the pointers and create damage events for the visible area of the window. -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
