What's wrong with backing store?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

ons, 06.10.2004 kl. 08.28 skrev Steffen Kluge:
> On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 16:17 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > With that, do you get "streaks" and "smears" when you drag a window?
> > 
> > Hmm.. maybe an idea to turn it on then. How do i do it? RTFM? (man
> > xorg.conf ?)
> 
> I do know how to turn it on. My point was that it *always* seems to be
> disabled by default, and I feel I'm always swimming against the current
> by stubbornly turning it on. I just want to understand the rationale
> behind not having it on by default.
> 
> Cheers
> Steffen.
> 
> > What do you mean with "modern hardware"?
> 
> I should have said "contemporary" rather than "modern". What I mean is,
> say, an Athlon XP 2600+ 1GB RAM, NVidia GeForce FX5200 128MB. Rather
> cheap but reasonably fast stuff.
> 
> Cheers
> Steffen.
> 

Just for the record, my main computer (which i am writing this from) is
an 650 Mhz P3 with 348 MB ram and a geforce 2 mx PCI. And i dont plan to
switch in the immediate future - unless some of my friends really get me
in on doom 3, and i get a lot of money. Neither seems very likely.
> 
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