How do I wait for VSYNC with binary nVidia driver?

[Matthias Hopf]

On Sep 22, 06 10:14:09 +0100, Barry Scott wrote:
> I have an X11 client (not OpenGL) that needs to wait for VSYNC.
> With Intel and VIA I use drm to do this successfully and I want to
> support the binary nVidia driver.
> 
> I've failed to find out how to wait for VSYNC with the binary nVidia
> driver. Does any one know how to do this?

Set the __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK environment variable to a non-zero value.
This is described in the NVIDIA README.txt that is installed with the
driver.

Matthias

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