Display problem on OpenSUSE 11.2

[Jean Pierre Arabonis]

Hi 

 Seems like a backingstore option  problem.  Be careful when enabling this using nvidia drivers - on opensuse 11.1 enabling backing store led to X no longer working and serious boot up problems. I now just live with the loss of the display when changing desktops etc.

 JP

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--- On Wed, 1/6/10, Huddleston, John <Huddleston at CIRA.COLOSTATE.EDU> wrote:

From: Huddleston, John <Huddleston at CIRA.COLOSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Display problem on OpenSUSE 11.2
To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 8:50 PM

Kumar,

Run the command

 xdpyinfo-display localhost:0.0 | grep back

It will tell you whether your server Backingstore is on or off, i.e.

options:    backing-store YES, save-unders YES

John 
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From: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT [GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT] On Behalf Of Rupa Kumar Kolli [rupakumar.kolli at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 9:28 AM
To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
Subject: Display problem on OpenSUSE 11.2

Dear All,

I am working with OpenGrADS 2.0 on OpenSUSE 11.2.  Whenever the
graphics window of GrADS is overlapped by other windows, I find that
the overlapped portion is wiped clean and I have to explicitly
redisplay the graphics.  I used to work around this problem earlier
with "Option BackingStore on" in the XF86 configuration.  However, in
my present installation of OpenSUSE 11.2, the BackingStore option in
the configuration file "xorg.conf" no longer seems to have any effect.

I would greatly appreciate any clue to solve this problem.

Thanks,
Kumar.
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