Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] Transparency Support and/or Big-endian Framebuffer

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Mike Bourgeous wrote:
> I'm working on a framebuffer driver for a high-definition tuner
> card's OSD, and I have two equally bad options for pixel format.
> I can choose 24-bit pixels, with every FOUR bytes in reverse
> order (even though pixels are three bytes long - that makes for
> some interesting pictures when it's not set up right), or 32-bit
> pixels, with mandatory transparency.

    [...]

> work without too much work in userspace.  My main goal is
> to get X to display on the framebuffer.

Getting tinyX to work is not that difficult. Using its shadow screen feature,
you let it draw to a `normal' 24 bit image of the screen in RAM, and convert
all modified rectangular areas to the hardware's format.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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