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- From: rgooch@rp.CSIRO.AU (Richard Gooch)
- Subject: Re: How to make *shared-memory* Pixmaps on Sun 4?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.012351.18784@rp.CSIRO.AU>
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- References: <9212171848.aa16515@Paris.ics.uci.edu> <tp3c8bg@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <RBERLIN.92Dec18225118@birdland.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:23:51 GMT
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- In article <RBERLIN.92Dec18225118@birdland.Eng.Sun.COM>, rberlin@birdland.Eng.Sun.COM (Rich Berlin) writes:
- >
- > > This is exactly what the MIT-SHM extension gives you. I have no idea
- > > whether or not Sun supports this extension
- >
- > Seems to. xdpyinfo on my machine (running OpenWindows V3) says
- >
- > number of extensions: 7
- > SUN_DGA
- > SunWindowGrabber
- > XInputDeviceEvents
- > Multi-Buffering
- > SHAPE
- > SUN_ALLPLANES
- > MIT-SHM
- >
- > -- Rich
-
- This also works for the MIT sample X server. A caveat when using SHM on Suns:
- it won't work unless your kernel is configured to have SHM.
- The GENERIC_SMALL kernel does not have SHM, however, GENERIC kernel does.
- If it doesn't work, get your friendly sysadmin to reconfigure your kernel.
-
- Regards,
-
- Richard Gooch....
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