On Dec 4, 2007, at 4:02 PM, Ben Byer wrote:
It turns out there's a threshold, above which it uses the "accelerated" calls, and below which it uses the fb/ code. So, I put a hack in that disables the fb code if you create a file called "/tmp/disable_fb.txt": http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=commit;h=4dcd9106a89ceb6...
If you're experiencing crashes in the fb/rootless code, I'd like to hear if enabling that fixes them. I'd also like to hear if it impacts performance.
Anyone try this yet? Reports of rootless crashes on the "old and busted" 10.5.0 Xquartz continue to stream in, and I know we didn't fix all of them (yet) in Xserver-1.3. If I don't hear back soon, I'm just gonna turn that hack on permanently until someone tells me why I shouldn't. :) -- Ben Byer CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer