On Fre, 2002-11-08 at 22:24, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> On 8 Nov 2002, Michel D�nzer wrote:
> 
> > On Fre, 2002-11-08 at 21:53, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > > On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > > 
> > > >    Running top-of-tree on Linux PPC I'm finding that alpha blended
> > > > SW cursors do not seem to work at all.  All cursors appear blank.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > >    Actually depending on the color I do sometimes see stuff.  The
> > > gumby cursor ends up being lavender.  Also, the data passed for
> > > the HW alpha cursor isn't correct either.
> > 
> > It's easy to make the radeon driver work with it, didn't you see the
> > patch I posted?
> > 
> 
>    What did you patch?  The SOFTWARE cursor is broken and it doesn't
> have anything to do with the drivers. Subsequently, the data passed to
> the driver for the HW interface is also incorrect.

I don't follow. The fact that the software cursor is broken doesn't
imply that the data is incorrect (is its endianness defined?) - it might
be the blending code treating it incorrectly.

> If you've patched your driver to work with this incorrect data, that
> was the wrong solution to the problem.

Maybe. It shows how the driver can basically handle any data.


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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