On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 13:48, Peter Surda wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:50:19AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Or am I missing something here (as usually <g>)? > > Yes, only one image can be displayed at a time per port so why bother. > How "displayed"? If the image is already on the visible part of the screen, > does it magically disappear when you tell the card to do > scaling/conversion/drawing into another window? If it did, that would be "a > really stupid thing" (TM). Are you sure this "magical disappearance" is caused > by card's hardware and not some X obscurity?
Yes, that's hiw an overlay works. May be different for Xv adaptors using the texture engine or similar, but I don't think that changes the semantics of an Xv port. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
