Re: [AD] Allegro 4.2 planning

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Elias Pschernig wrote:

> I'm right now running an Allegro 4.1.17 with full XIM support :) Even
> combination keys work perfectly.
>  

Cool :)

> Still need to test performance.. maybe it got worse by removing X
> locking. And, there's some places which need extra synchronization now,
> since x_lock and x_unlock simply are gone (may need some pthreads
> locking now.. e.g. for mouse drawing, or special things like shutting
> down). There are 2 independent connections to the X server, one for
> input, one for output. The same connection may not be used concurrently
> from two threads. (So I still get X Asyn replies right now, but only in
> special situation, actually just on shut down).
>  

Have you done anything with the DGA2 driver?  The problem I had with two 
connections to the X server is that DGA only wants to deliver DGA events 
to the X connection that initialised the DGA extension.  I don't know 
how to handle that cleanly.

Peter