Re: Patches to fix fullscreen games viewport issues with recent Xorg versions

To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: games@lists.freedesktop.org, Debian Devel Games <debian-devel-games@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Patches to fix fullscreen games viewport issues with recent Xorg versions
From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:02:44 +0800
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:

> With recent Xorg versions XF86VidModeSetViewPort() does not seem to
> do anything. So fullscreen games which place an undecorated window
> at 0,0 and then do XF86VidModeSetViewPort(.., 0, 0) no may end up with
> the viewport wrong (showing part of the game and part of the
> desktop).

Is there a bug report about this? I think it would be better to fix
the bug than work around it in every single game that uses
XF86VidModeSetViewPort.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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