On 2004-09-20, cirutech wrote:

> I am damning myself because I am trying since 2 days to enable the
> backing store option on my Linux machine. It is needed for the
> particular scientific software that I need to run for work, but even
> browsing the netand this usenet group (also others...) I didn't
> understand why.... or better, how!
> My config is a pentium IV machine, with Linux Suse 9.1, kernel 2.6 and
> the graphic card (I think it is involved somehow) is a Ati Radeon VT.\
>
> Thanks to everybody who can help me, all the best to everybody,

In Section "Screen" of your XF86Config file, add a line:

Option "BackingStore" "on"

and restart the X server.

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-John (john@os2.dhs.org)