Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] Cursor

[Brad D. <br...@ne...>]

On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 11:06, Johan Henriksson wrote:
> Hi
>=20
> I am developing a program that uses the framebuffer.
> I have two questions I hope someone can answer:
>=20
> 1. How do I change the cursor that is used by the framebuffer.

AFAIK, this can only be done via vesafb or by driver specific commands.

> 2. When a driver is "accelerated" what can be accelerated?=20
>      Bitblit op? HW cursor? Paning?

It depends on the driver.  You'll have to look at the 'struct
display_switch' in the driver to see what functions are accelerated for
which color depth.

I haven't really looked over the code much in some time, so take my info
with an appropriate sized grain of salt.

Brad Douglas
br...@ne...