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Sync to VBlank

Sync to VBlank

Posted Apr 10, 2008 14:23 UTC (Thu) by dlarrick (subscriber, #5532)
In reply to: Need good FLOSS drivers for 3D cards (NVIDIA, ATI) by drag
Parent article: A Linux Driver Project status report

There are actually two mechanisms to sync to VBlank under XOrg.  OpenGL has the
GLX_SGI_video_sync extension, and DRM has DRM_IOCTL_WAIT_VBLANK .  One or both of these works
on most modern hardware.  Both of these are useable for video output -- MythTV, for example,
will select whichever is available.



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