[6961] in Release_7.7_team
Cadence and the debathena X server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Tue Sep 21 14:07:57 2010
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:07:50 -0400
Message-Id: <201009211807.o8LI7oDc032470@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: fletch1@MIT.EDU
CC: release-team@MIT.EDU
Hi! I gather there's some question about getting some of the Course 6
debathena machines set up with backing store turned on so that Cadence
will work properly.
Support for that is driver-specific and thus hardware-dependent, but if
it's supported, you can put this in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "default"
Option "BackingStore" "True"
EndSection
...which file you'll probably have to create unless you have other custom
X settings already. (If there's already a "Device" section, just add the
option line there.)
To check whether it's turned on, if you're logged locally on the relevant
machine (not a remote login), you can run "xdpyinfo |grep backing"
and see output like:
$ xdpyinfo|grep -i backing
options: backing-store YES, save-unders NO
If you have further questions, feel free to email release-team@mit.edu.
thanks,
andrew
Andrew Boardman/SysEng/IS&T/MIT +1.617.253.4040 amb@mit.edu
