On Fre, 2002-11-01 at 21:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yes, XSYNC has the right things to allow applications to synchronize
> on arbitrary things (including vertical sync).
> 
> If the fbdev and/or DRI folks are willing to support and export an interface,
> it should be possible to get the plumbing hooked up.
> 
> Just make it a file descriptor we (and/or other things) can select against, 
> and it should be something that can be pretty cross platform without much 
> trouble: them's that don't implement it on a given platform won't get 
> support...

The interface we've implemented in the DRM is an ioctl which basically
blocks for a requested number of vertical blanks (it's more flexible in
fact). Maybe a daemon or something could provide a file descriptor to
select against?


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

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