Re: SV: READ THIS; Debian XFree86 4.0.1 mini-FAQ
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 04:47:09PM +0200, Torbjörn Andersson wrote:
> Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> > * Yes, the shared memory extension is broken in recent phase2 packages.
> > This is a recent development in upstream CVS. If you'd like to help fix
> > it, subscribe to xpert@xfree86.org and pursue the issue there; please try
> > to submit helpful bug reports to upstream, they could use them.
>
> How recent are we talking about here? I never noticed any problem with
> phase2v8, but in the past few days I haven't been running much X applications
> apart from WindowMaker, xpdf, emacs, xterm and xscreensaver, and it has never
> occured to me before to wonder how much any of these rely on shared memory.
Not at all. Shm is used msotly for things which do a lot of blitting, like
games and Rasterman's over-glitzy under-functional piles of code.
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