[Bf-committers] Back Buffer Issues

[Daniel Fairhead]

> 3- On the Nvidia "allow flipping" subject, the Nivida-Settings control
> panel is nowhere to be found in my system, but I haven't yet updated
> to the very last version of the drivers (I'm on Suse, so the uptating
> is a little bit harder for me because I can't use the driver file
> straight from Nvida).  If that setting is changeable by software, I
> would suggest you to take a look into /proc/driver/nvidia  since
> traditionally, all settings that can be changed on the fly are
> accesible from there, so Blender could *in teory* hack into into that
> directory at startup and see how the flipping is set ut and addapt
> itself to the circunstances...

i am running gentoo, and the nvidia-settings program comes seporately from the drivers. you should be able to get it somewhere else, or from source, or something like that.

on a related note, if it is available in source code, then we should be able to find the settings code in it?

Dan