The grab is client-specific. The grab will only fail if it's owned by another client. This is just to prevent multiple apps from fighting over the same port. It's assumed that if you've got a single client that client will be able to keep track of which ports it's using.
Mark. On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Smoof . wrote: > Thanks everyone for the help. The ultimate solution was that I switched to > a machine with an nvidia chipset. Then I was able use the video blitter > port to send the video images to their respecitve X windows with no > flashing. Interesting thing is that I was able to successfully grab the > same port multiple times. I would have thought that once a port had been > grabbed it would no longer be available. > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@XFree86.Org > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel