[Intel-gfx] [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.6.99.903

[Michel Dänzer]

On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 17:56 +0100, Barry Scott wrote:
> Carl Worth wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 12:34 +0100, Jonathan Miles wrote:
> >   
> >> Okay, understood... that is strange. I am using Compiz (0.8.2 + whatever 
> >> Ubuntu patches it with).
> >>
> >> I'm going to pull the latest git trees later and start looking into this 
> >> in more detail.
> >>     
> >
> > Thanks for your willingness to help, Jon.
> >
> > I don't know exactly how compiz interacts with xv, but you certainly
> > might start by trying without compiz running to see if the tearing
> > behavior changes, (my xv tests were without compiz).
> >   
> The code you have to prevent tearing will only work without compositing.

Note that for fullscreen video, you can enable the compiz option
'Unredirect Fullscreen Windows'. I think at least kwin and xfwm4 support
this as well.


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