Re: cario and shmget problems

[icicle]

Hi!

I really do not know what Xshm has to do with the drivers, but X and 
all it's accelerating APIs are a mess I am not able to understand.  See 
the following thread.

http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg56985.html

After upgrading my NVIDIA drivers to a version above 18x.xx I got the 
same message regarding Xshm as Riccardo got.

TOM

Zitat von David Chisnall <address@hidden>:

> On 9 Jul 2010, at 09:32, address@hidden wrote:
>
> > NVIDIA dropped XShm support in their 19x.xx drivers.
>
> How?  XShm doesn't have anything to do with the drivers, it's purely 
> for transporting large amounts of data between the client and X 
> server efficiently, and happens long before the driver is invoked.  
> Removing XShm would have a serious negative impact on performance, so 
> I can't imagine nVidia would do this even if it were possible to do 
> at the driver layer.
>
> Or, as they say in Wikipedia-land: [citation needed]
>
> David
>
> -- Sent from my Cray X1