I tried it again as root. Things are much improved until the end. When the box is almost across the screen the tearing occurs again.
What/where is this matrox vsync irq patch you are referring to? Neil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denis Oliver Kropp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Neil Radisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 3:10 PM Subject: [directfb-dev] Re: Matrox video tearing - my test prog > Quoting Neil Radisch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The box should slide across the screen smoothly without > > any video tearing artifacts. Unfortunately, despite the Flip() call > > using the WAITFORSYNC option, it still tears something awful. > > Did you start the program without root privileges? > In this case you should use the matrox vsync irq patch. > Without root privileges the VGA registers cannot be polled. > > -- > Best regards, > Denis Oliver Kropp > > .------------------------------------------. > | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | > | http://www.directfb.org/ | > "------------------------------------------" > > Convergence GmbH > > > -- > Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject. > -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject.
