Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 May 1999 20:39:25 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: S3 Frame Buffer |
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On Sat, 22 May 1999, Chris Evans wrote: > 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
I think this feature is the 'streams processor' which is present on the Trio64V+ (newmmio) but not the Trio64 (mmio_928).
Jeff
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