Re: Flyback

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From: Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Date: Sun 09 Jan 2000 - 22:29:10 IST


On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Neil Stewart wrote:

> I need a way to control the copying from a virtual screen to the physical
> screen (using gl_copyscreen() or the like) so that copying takes place
> during the time the monitor's electron beam is moving from the bottom right
> of the screen back to the top left corner of the screen to begin redrawing
> (the flyback time).
> 
> Can you tell me whether this is done automatically in the copying routines?
> If it is not, are there any functions I can use to either report the
> position of the beam, or that wait for the beam to reach the bottom right
> corner of the screen before returning?

I think vga_waitretrace does what you want.

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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org


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