full-disclosure - Xfree86 video buffering?

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From: rodrigob at suespammers.org (Rodrigo Barbosa)
Subject: Xfree86 video buffering?

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On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 06:35:00PM -0500, Eric Windisch wrote:
> 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.

Looks like related to the VESA buffer, since I only saw it happen when
using the VESA driver.

- -- 
Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@...spammers.org>
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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