Re: [ferret_users] Display problem

[Samrat Rao <samrat.rao@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
   Both Option(s) "on/true" enable backingstore. As Ryo said, xdpyinfo
and /var/log/Xorg.0.log show the enabling or disabling of
backingstore. And when backingstore is enabled, Ferret has a problem,
for my distro at least.

Samrat.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Ryo Furue <furue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Samrat,
>
> |    Yes, that is the modification that has been made, but under the
> | section "Screen" of xorg.conf. The distro being used is openSUSE
> | 11.0, gnome version.  In Suse, the section "Screen" comes before
> | "Device", while in Fedora the order is reversed. In any case i have
> | tried making the modification in "Device" as well. Each time i
> | logged out and logged in (as user), but it makes no difference. So i
> | am still stuck.
>
> You may be able to check if the backing-store option is enabled by
>
>  $ xdpyinfo
>
> or by examining the X-server log file.
>
> For example, my xdpyinfo says
>
>  . . . . . . .
>  screen #0:
>  . . . . . . .
>  options:    backing-store NO, save-unders NO
>  . . . . . . .
>
> because I don't enable the backing-store option.
>
> On the Linux system I use (Debian GNU/Linux), the log file
> is   /var/log/Xorg.0.log, which has
>
>  . . . . . . .
>
>  (==) NV(0): Backing store disabled
>  . . . . . . .
>
> ("NV" is the name of the video driver for my video card.)
>
> Regards,
> Ryo
>



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Samrat Rao