Re: Refresh Problems under XFree86 4.0?

["kemmy chien" <kemmy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try to enable the "backing store" function of your X server.
You may do it by starting X server with `X +bs' or something similar.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Eric Newman <enewman@triscend.com>
To: <rdesktop@cifs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 2:40 AM
Subject: Re: Refresh Problems under XFree86 4.0?


> Sveinn Sveinsson wrote:
> > 
> > Sebastian Andersson wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 02:50:27PM -0800, Eric Newman wrote:
> > > > rdesktop works flawlessly for me with 24-bit color, except for one
> > >
> > > > thing: the window does not refresh its contents after other things
> > > have
> > > > been on top of it, or when switching between viewports / desktops.
> > >
> > > Maybe the X server has too little memory to store the window
> > > contents
> > > for you? I'm using RedHat 7.0 with XFree86 4.0 without a problem,
> > > except when I iconify the window and restore it.
> > >
> > > /Sebastian
> > 
> > I have the same problem as Eric Newman.  I'm using RH 6.1 with XFree86
> > 3.3.5 and RH 7.0 with XFree86 4.0.1, both of them with KDE2 (same
> > source).  I don't think there is a resource problem on the box running
> > X 4.0.1 as there are 256MB of ram in it and 512MB of swap, unless
> > there is a limit on the amount of resources X allocates.  I'm not
> > aware of any such limit.
> 
> I'm using RH 6.0 with XFree86 4.0 and also have 256MB of RAM and 512MB
> of swap. I'm also running GNOME. What would this resource problem be?
> rdesktop needs all its data to be in physical memory at all times or
> something? I haven't ever seen this problem with X or any other
> application on this system.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Eric
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