[SDL] Display blink

[Alvin]

On Tuesday 19 June 2007 10:35:26 Torsten Giebl wrote:
> Hello !
>
> > I believe the blinking is caused by ATI's driver. When I set the driver
> > for X
> > to be fbdev, the blinking did not occur. Even when I disable the 3D part
> > of
> > fglrx and have only the 2D acceleration, the monitor still goes blank for
> > a
> > second.
>
> If the x.org ati driver works with your
> Graphics card maybe test it.

I'm sorry, I'm not quite sure what you mean? From the part of my message that 
you quoted, I was trying to say that using ATI's driver causes the blanking, 
regardless if using 3D or 2D acceleration. When I switched to the fbdev x.org 
driver, the blinking did not occur.

I have Windows Vista on this machine as well, with the latest Catalyst 
drivers. There is no blinking in Windows.

As far as I can tell, the blanking only occurs with SDL apps. When I use 
MPlayer, there is no blinking with the XVideo video driver. If I set MPlayer 
to use the sdl video driver, the blanking occurs. In all cases, the blanking 
occurs when SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) is called.

Alvin