On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 15:10 -0700, Aaron Plattner wrote:
> This pair of patches adds hooks that allow drivers (or other server modules)
> to
> wrap the creation, registration, unregistration, and destruction of Damage
> objects. This allows drivers like the NVIDIA driver to turn notifications on
> and off for direct-rendering OpenGL and VDPAU clients as Damage clients appear
> and disappear. Currently, the driver has no way of knowing when a Damage
> object
> is created, which hinders screen-scraping programs like x11vnc.
How so? There's at least two possible solutions available for generating
damage from direct rendering components:
* XDamageAdd(), as used by the Mesa libGL with DRI1.
* Doing the actual manipulation of X drawable contents in the X
server, as done by DRI2.
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