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authorKaleb Keithley <kaleb@freedesktop.org>2003-11-25 19:28:33 +0000
committerKaleb Keithley <kaleb@freedesktop.org>2003-11-25 19:28:33 +0000
commitdb365c73e467868938ad5b15343c3b79b87994d5 (patch)
tree20f83adfb290ac185c8b325ccdd103a53416d1dd
parented50d6847a012bef0bf7274626bb0ed8018d5e23 (diff)
XFree86 4.3.99.16 Bring the tree up to date for the Cygwin folksxf86-4_3_99_16
-rw-r--r--man/XF86VM.man16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/XF86VM.man b/man/XF86VM.man
index c7d83f2..e14dab5 100644
--- a/man/XF86VM.man
+++ b/man/XF86VM.man
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
.\"
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Joe Moss, The XFree86 Project
-.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/man/XF86VM.man,v 3.12 2002/12/22 00:46:54 dawes Exp $
+.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/man/XF86VM.man,v 3.14 2003/10/02 13:29:56 eich Exp $
.\"
.de ZN
.ie t \fB\^\\$1\^\fR\\$2
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ typedef struct {
typedef struct {
char* vendor; /* Name of manufacturer */
char* model; /* Model name */
- float bandwidth; /* Monitor bandwidth */
+ float EMPTY; /* unused, for backward compatibility */
unsigned char nhsync; /* Number of horiz sync ranges */
XF86VidModeSyncRange* hsync; /* Horizontal sync ranges */
unsigned char nvsync; /* Number of vert sync ranges */
@@ -349,6 +349,15 @@ the request to switch modes comes from a call to the
or
.ZN XF86VidModeSwitchToMode
functions or from one of the mode switch key sequences.
+.PP
+.RB Note:
+Because of the asynchronous nature of the X protocol, a call to
+.ZN XFlush
+is needed if the application wants to see the mode change immediately.
+To be informed of the execution status of the request, a
+custom error handler should be installed using
+.ZN XSetErrorHandler
+before calling the mode switching function.
.SS "MONITOR FUNCTIONS"
Information known to the server about the monitor is returned by the
.ZN XF86VidModeGetMonitor
@@ -410,6 +419,7 @@ XF86VidModeGetPermissions
functions need to be documented. In the meantime, check the source
code for information about how to use them.
.SH SEE ALSO
-XFree86(1), XF86Config(__filemansuffix__), xvidtune(1)
+XFree86(1), XF86Config(__filemansuffix__), XFlush(3),
+XSetErrorHandler(3), xvidtune(1)
.SH AUTHORS
Kaleb Keithley, Jon Tombs, David Dawes, and Joe Moss