On May 21, 2004 0758, Meghazi Fabien wrote: > On Friday 21 May 2004 07:56, Doug Holland wrote: (snip) > > Unfortunately, IIRC, there is no reliable way to get vertical retrace > > information from the video card in X. SDL can do this if you're running > > straight from the console, without X. IIRC, AdvanceMAME running in SDL > > console mode can sync to vertical retrace and eliminate your problem. > > It's hard to beleive there's no reliable way to know the state of the > retrace register on the gfx card under X. If so, how can it be possible > that I only encounter this problem in xmame and not in mplayer, ... ?
Some Xv implementations are permanently vsynced by default, without the intervention of the program using it. Yours is probably. > > So if you have nothing else to do, go bug the X.org developers and demand > > that they implement a way to sync with vertical retrace in the next > > version of X. > > Well, if they are about to make the same mistake as Xfree86 about this > subject, I shall bug them about that ;-) X.org X11 is a fork of XFree86. They didn't "make the same mistake", it's the same codebase. _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
