Re: [Mesa3d-users] problem writing a mesa/X11 game

[Brian P. <br...@pr...>]

Dave Morse wrote:
> 
> I'm experiencing some bad behavior in a game I'm writing.
> 
> My problem is that if Mesa draws my scene faster than 30 Hertz then I
> never get any x events.  So as far as my client can tell, the mouse never
> moves again.
> 
> All other applications recieve X events normally.
> 
> If I comment out the Mesa drawing code, then I get X events normally.
> 
> During the locked times, top reports that X is consuming 90% cpu time.
> 
> My machines are K6/450 and PII/333 running software mesa 3.3 beta.
> 
> Can someone explain why X is so studiously ignoring the event sending half
> of its job, in favor of the rendering half?
> 
> Any ideas for a solution?

Sounds like a design bug in your event loop.  Can you post the code
for the event loop?  It can be tricky to get right.

-Brian