On Saturday, April 23, 2011 09:05:43 PM [email protected] did opine: > Am 23.04.2011 17:46, schrieb gene heskett: > > On Saturday, April 23, 2011 11:44:20 AM gene heskett did opine: > >>>> I wonder if there is a different name for it when using the nvidia > >>>> driver? > >>>> > >>>> Thanks. > >>> > >>> I did some digging in the xorg.conf options list and found this: > > I don't have those docs unforch. > > You can find just about any manpages and docs online. > In this particular case a bit of googling got me this page: > http://ru.download.nvidia.com/solaris/1.0-9639/README/appendix-d.html > (It's for Solaris, but the options shouldn't be too different.) > > >>> Option "NoFlip" "boolean" > >> > >> I just put this line in the Device section of xorg.conf, and will > >> reboot to level 3 so I can play with startx. > >> > >>> The description matches what EnablePageFlip does, except it's > >>> reverted, which means setting "boolean" to "true" should turn off > >>> page flipping. See if that makes a difference. > >> > >> That I will, and report. Thanks. > > > > And I can report that the option did not cause any errors in the > > Xorg.0.log, and that the problem would appear to have been eliminated. > > > > Thank you very much! > > Well, unfortunately this just made the symptoms go away, but didn't > tackle the real problem. > If you know how to patch files and compile your own X-server, you could > try and apply the patch linked in the bug report I mentioned in an > earlier post, which is > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=44749
This shows me the patch, but I don't see a place to click to add any comments. Perhaps you can? > If those two bugs are related, the patched X server should work with > page flipping active and would confirm that this issue is not isolated > to the radeon driver but also is occuring on the nvidia side. > I am not too sure what this Page Flipping does, but one other thing stands out, videos seem to play quite a bit smoother now. > Regardless, I think you should attach a comment to the earlier bug > report, so folks know this is possibly not limited to ATI cards. > So long I'll see if I can get perms to add a comment to that effect. But when I went to that link, its the patch only, no place to add a comment. Again, many thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> <http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html> Yes, we will be going to OSI, Mars, and Pluto, but not necessarily in that order. -- George Michaelson _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
