Ed Sweetman wrote:

> since the mga driver for the Matrox G450 doesn't support
> 32bpp and thus doesn't support alpha layers I was wondering if this is
> possible at all to see (XRender's alpha blending and such) 

Render permits the use of external alpha buffers for visuals which don't
include embedded alpha.  To include an embedded alpha channel, the server
would need to advertise depth 32 windows with RGB masks set to leave 8 bits
for alpha.  As far as I know, no-one has made the necessary changes to add
depth 32 support to XFree86 X servers.  The pixel format (bpp) is
irrelevant here, aside from needing to be no smaller than depth.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab


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