full-disclosure - Xfree86 video buffering?

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From: william at waisse.org (William Waisse)
Subject: Xfree86 video buffering?

Le Mercredi 23 F?vrier 2005 23:20, defiance a ?crit?:
> Seriously though, I think this has to do with stuff getting left in the
> video memory. I don't think X flushes it properly.

 I already saw this problem switching from ctrl+alt+F7 to ctrl+alt+F8 from a 
F7 root X session to a F8 user X session, wher the user session sees the last 
root screen.
 This seems to proove this a X behaviour problem; reboot or not, the problem 
is here.

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cordialement
 William Waisse
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