Bug 985408

Summary:	[RFE] disable surfaces by default
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Alon Levy <alevy>
Component:	spice-qxl-xddm	Assignee:	Alon Levy <alevy>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	---	CC:	acathrow, alevy, cfergeau, dblechte, djasa, iheim, lyarwood, pvine
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Hardware:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:	qxl-win-unsigned-0.1-18	Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	Previously, the DisabledSurfaces registry key was used to prevent performance issues when using the QXL driver to draw off screen surfaces. The DisabledSurfaces key is now replaced by SurfacesEnabled, and it is off by default.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2014-01-21 14:48:52 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1019470

Description Alon Levy 2013-07-17 12:28:00 UTC

Right now we allow setting a special registry value to disable surfaces. This feature request is to change the default to off and change the registry key name to "SurfacesEnabled".

The new logic would be:

If there is no registry key then
 do not enable surfaces.
else
 enable surfaces

Comment 1 Alon Levy 2013-08-08 14:23:43 UTC

David,

 What is the proper way to say there is an unsigned version of the driver that fixes this bug, but no signed one yet? put it on MODIFIED with the qxl-win-unsigned version (as I'm just doing)?

Alon

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2014-01-21 14:48:52 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2014-0053.html