Re: S3 Frame Buffer

Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Sat, 22 May 1999 13:32:49 +0100 (GMT)


On Thu, 20 May 1999, Gabor Lenart wrote:

> window, and messages in the window). But fbcon background images denies
> fast hw scrollback or something, I think ...

Maybe we should look into the "overlay" functionality of the S3 cards. The
Virge definitely has it, not sure about Trio64.

The overlay functionality lets you lay one screen over another (with black
behaving as transparent in the top layer). It is done in hardware. The
colours and resolution are limited when using this feature though

Chris

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