Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] Problem of programmation

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Bui Sy Phong wrote:
> I'm a newbie on Framebuffer programmation and newbie also on this mailing
> list.
> 
> Actually, i'm writing a little program witch will display a full-screen
> windows in bleu.
> But when i execute this program, my windows is always hiden by the console
> or X11's windows. I dont understant how X11 communicates with Framebuffer so
> i cannot do the same thing to display my windows in first plane.

You should not touch the frame buffer device while X is active.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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