Re: X cursor

Alex Deucher <agd5f-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Message-ID <[email protected]>
the radeon driver shouldn't need it as it supports ARGB HW cursors
natively.

Alex

--- Keith Packard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Around 8 o'clock on Nov 14, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> 
> > For what it's worth, the current software implementation of 32bit
> cursors 
> > breaks with direct rendering as the X server doesn't know to copy
> the cursor 
> > in that case, and the DRI drivers were designed to assume a
> hardware cursor.
> 
> I added code to the server to switch from software to hardware
> cursors 
> when DRI (or Xv with overlays) was up to avoid these problems; it
> took 
> some driver cooperation which should be present in the Radeon driver
> but 
> may well be missing or broken at this point.
> 
> -keith
> 
> 


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