HW cursors

René Rebe rene at exactcode.de
Tue Mar 7 02:44:07 PST 2006


Hi,

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 11:40, Vassili Karpov wrote:

> >> Does X.Org support multi-colored hardware cursors? The x86CursorInfoRec
> >> functions (most specifically RealizeCursor) only works with bitmaps so
> >> even if hardware supports more than two colors the API makes it impossible
> >> to use take advantage of that. Or have i missed something?
> >
> > It does:
> >
> >    cursor->UseHWCursorARGB
> >    cursor->LoadCursorARGB
> >
> > Most newer drivers support this in hardware,
> 
> Thank you. Perhaps you can tell me when ARGB_CURSOR was introduced?

In some XFree86 release in 2003 or 2002. I would need to cvs log or google
for the exact version.

Yours,

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