[Paul Davis] >On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 22:44 +0200, Tim Goetze wrote: >> Back in the 80s, the humble Commodore 64 could be readily programmed >> to fire an interrupt on vertical sync. Have 20 years of progress >> really deprived us of this fine feature, or is it just missing from X? > >it was missing from X until Xorg put it back in as an extension. its >obviously not of much use in a general purpose X app, since the display >may not be the host on which the app runs, making access to the vsync >pulse pretty pointless.
It's good to know it's available when you need it (and can arrange a local display). Now I can believe in progress again! :) Thanks. Cheers, Tim
