Re: Xfree86 video buffering?

[Ankush Kapoor <everbeeninlove () gmail com>]

this might not amount to anything, but do you share some of your ram
with your video card? if you do, maybe changing the refresh latency
and using the shadow ram options could result in something good.

regards

Ankush Kapoor


On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:17:43 +0100, _evil <evilninja () gmx net> wrote:
> KF (lists) wrote:
> > Recently I have noticed that after shutting down my machine or rebooting
> > my X-windows will briefly flash an image of whatever I was doing when I
> > rebooted the machine or logged out.
>
> i've had a similiar issue with a 3dfx "banshee" videocard and some
> (beta)driver under win2k (or win98?). this card had 16MB video-ram and
> as cards are coming with more and more ram, these things might occur
> more often. the thing is: where does the video-card save this
> "screenshot", when the computer is powered down? maybe this ATX ("soft
> poweroff" or so?) is to blame. or even ACPI. yes, blame ACPI ;-)
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