Re: X cursor

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 09:51, Keith Packard 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.

Marc La France removed it at some point because it was 'unnecessary',
but I hope it's been reinstated with the last merge from the DRI tree.

Not that it'll matter with a compositing manager, will it? :)


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