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Re: erk! qfcam 1.0 is hosed in unidirectional mode
Paul Chinn writes:
> I will add an option to use regular images instead of shared memory in
> my 1.01 release. I don't know why that doesn't work on your machine
> unless perhaps shared memory images aren't supported by all the XFree
> servers.
It's definitely a shared memory thing. I made changes to use regular
images instead of shared memory, and now it works just fine-n-dandy.
Pretty quick, too.
> * Try Xdoom. If it works it means one of 2 things:
> 1. they fall back to regular images if there's no shared image support
> 2. your machine does have shared image support but I'm doing something
> wrong. You can verify it's this case by running strace and looking for
> the shared memory calls (shmget, shmat etc) early in the listing.
I've got another shared-memory program (wt) that I'll try. It's
worked in the past, but I've switched to X11R6 in the meantime.
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