Patches to fix fullscreen games viewport issues with recent Xorg versions

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 11/19/2009 01:55 AM, Peter De Wachter wrote:
> Op Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:23:38 +0100
> schreef Hans de Goede<hdegoede at redhat.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 11/15/2009 02:33 PM, Peter De Wachter wrote:
>>> Op Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:10:26 +0100
>>> schreef Hans de Goede<hdegoede at redhat.com>:
>>>>> I really feel the X server should be fixed instead. This
>>>>> functionality is definitely in use in the wild.
>>>>
>>>> I won't disagree, but I don't have the skills, and those who do
>>>> have the skills (the driver authors), I don't think will give this
>>>> high priority, but I may be wrong. So go and file bugs and please
>>>> but me in the CC.
>>>
>>> Can you try this xserver patch? It seems to work for me (xserver
>>> 1.7.0, radeon, intel, vesa drivers) but I don't have much hardware
>>> to test on.
>>
>> I like your style putting your code where your mouth is :)
>>
>> Unfortunately it cost me quite a bit of trouble to reproduce the
>> problem, where you able to reproduce the viewport being of problem
>> (without your patch) on the systems you tested on?
>
> What I saw on my systems was that SwitchMode left the viewport in the
> top-left corner (i.e. what most apps want) but that SetViewPort doesn't
> do anything (so the few apps that want a different viewport lose).
> This seemed similar to your problem, I guessed the cause would be the
> same. Apparently not though.

Hmm,

So your patch does fix a real issue, just a different one. Have you submitted
it upstream ?

Regards,

Hans