[Bf-committers] Back Buffer Issues

[Kent Mein]

> > 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... actually, if that setting is on the  
> >/proc system, nothing stops Blender from changing that setting by  
> >itself (maybe after a pop-up asking the user for his/her authorization  
> >to change it).
> 

Just a side note, the "hack" is not a good idea.  #1 hopefully most
users are not running blender as root so it will not be able to make
the modifications.  I also think its a bad idea to modify a persons
system for them.  I could see a warning message in the console popping up
if it thought things should be "fixed" but thats as far as I would go.

Kent