Re: fbdev hardware cursor support

[Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 5/25/05, Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:40:57AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > What is the status of fbdev hardware cursor support? I see the ioctl
> > is disabled in the driver.
> >
> > If a driver is using the softcursor support would the ioctl control that cursor?
> > Does softcursor work in a bitmap graphics mode?
> >
> > The EGL based X server is going to need fbdev hardware cursors working.
> 
> Why doesn't it draw the cursor using OpenGL? On many cards the hardware
> cursor is too limited to allow nice looking cursors.

Software generated will be supported sooner or later but the code is
not written yet.

What about video overlays? When the cursor goes out of the OpenGL area
and into the video one it has to be hardware generated.

A hardware cursor is also easier for me in the unstable drawing
environment or a server under development.


-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com


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