Information for Alliance Promotion chipset users : Shadow framebuffer
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5. Shadow framebuffer

There is a mode, called shadow framebuffer, where the graphics is only used to display the images. All rendering is done in memory in a so-called shadow framebuffer. This mode is useful if you need lots of reading in the video memory. You will have to put

  Option "ShadowFB"

in your XF86Config file.


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