Synchronization with CRT refresh
Michel Dänzer
michel at daenzer.net
Wed May 4 11:41:36 PDT 2005
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 11:40 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 16:17 -0400, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >
> > One thing that's still missing is the ability to select the display
> > controller that should be waited for on cards with multiple controllers,
> > but the interface should be extensible enough that this could be added
> > in a backwards compatible way.
>
> Vertical retrace is clearly a property of the monitor, rather than the
> graphics card itself...
We don't have any control over what the monitor does with the signal(s)
we generate, so synchronizing with the display controller is the best we
can do.
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