On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Andreas Beck wrote:
> > I am trying to run berlin (http://www.berlin-consortium.org/) on fbdev.
> > I am using a cvs-version of ggi and libart (both from last week) to
> > write to a memory visual and copy that to the screen visual.
>
> O.K. - so you don't do any screen-switching with Set*Frame - right ?
>
> > So we have only one call to 'flush' per frame.
>
> Hmm - this should never flicker. What does flicker - only the changing
> parts or the whole screen ?
I think what he is seeing is the fake double-buffer hack I put
into GGIMesa.
> > The problem: The screen flickers awfully. I tried switching refresh
> > rates from 60Hz to 92Hz, but that didn't change anything.
>
> No, that shouldn't change much, except maybe for the flicker rate ...
The flicker rate will be dependent on the frequency of
GGIMesaSwapBuffer() calls.
Jon
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