full-disclosure - Xfree86 video buffering?

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From: lists at bwbohh.net (Eric Windisch)
Subject: Xfree86 video buffering?

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 14:35 -0800, Eric Paynter wrote:
> On Wed, February 23, 2005 1:08 pm, KF (lists) said:
> > 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 seen this in the past as well and believed it to be an issue with
memory management of the video card, not an issue with XFree86 itself.
I could be wrong.

-- 
Eric Windisch <lists@...ohh.net>