[gradsusr] graphics display problem

[Huddleston, John]

Madan

Here is an email to this list from January 18 of this year explaining that the backing store must be set to TRUE. Beware, it sucks up memory and may have an impact on NVIDIA graphics hardware.

Dear John and Jean-Pierre,

Finally I could solve this problem.

I realized that the graphics driver my installation automatically configured was not the ideal one, though all the graphics otherwise were perfect.  I included the original nvidia software repository (ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.2/) in yast and looked for suitable nvidia driver. I found that my system could successfully install and configure the driver "nvidia-gfx-kmp-default". I then added the line Option BackingStore "True" in all instances of Section "Device",and restarted my X11.

To my great relief, my GrADS display is now perfect, and I no longer need to redisplay the graphics whenever the window is overlapped by others.  Also, my X11 is behaving perfectly even with BackingStore turned on.

"xdpyinfo -display" still shows "save-unders NO", so that was not a critical issue.

Thank you both for your feedback.

Cheers,
Kumar.


John Huddleston, PhD

From: gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org [mailto:gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org] On Behalf Of madan sigdel
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:30 PM
To: 'GrADS Users Forum'
Subject: [gradsusr] graphics display problem



Dear users
I recently installed Opengrads 2.0.a7.oga.3 under fedora 9 linux.
Every thing seems ok except when graphical window is overlapped by another window,
Later overlapped part is not visible.
How can I make it visible, will you suggest me.

Thank you
madan

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