On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a student working on X am i am pretty new to it.
> I have a few questions
>
> 1. Is there any way to detect vertical retrace in X so that the tearing down of
> he image can be prevented ?
You mean for XPutImage or something? No.
The only things that can sync to the retrace are some X-Video extension
implementations and some OpenGL implementations.
>
> 2.If both the Xserver and the client are on the same machine then which one
> gives better performance ie in terms of speed ...Pixmaps or shared memory
> pixmaps.Are pixmaps stored directly in the video RAM?????
That's too open-ended to answer. It all depends what you are
trying to do.
MArk.
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