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. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert