[MPlayer-cvslog] r27849 - trunk/libvo/x11_common.c

[Uoti Urpala]

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 01:23 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> On Thursday 30 October 2008 21:35, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> > Enabling backing store is apparently harmful in xserver 1.5.
> > See http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=119047 (I
> > already posted that link when it was discussed before).
> 
> But it works normally on previous version, and believe me not all 
> people use the latest software on their desktops, even Gentoo guys 
> 8-).
> 
> I do not want to discuss if backstore is or is not a performance 
> enhancement -- this is still questionable. But a sane solution 
> should check a version of xserver, and only if it is >= 1.5.0 
> backstore should be disabled.

Do you have evidence that enabling backing store gives a noticeable
benefit in _any_ xserver version? I've only seen evidence that it's
harmful in some cases and makes no difference in others.