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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ati radeon support
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Date: Fri,  3 Oct 2003 10:34:29 -0400
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On Fri Oct  3 09:10:45 EDT 2003, rog@vitanuova.com wrote:
> > On last discussion I understood that there is a problem with hw cursor
> > (noone supports it even if the standard VESA does). Before using VESA,
> > someone has to write support for software cursor.
>
> you're right: the inferno stuff that forsyth posted relied on software
> cursor support, something that plan 9 no longer has, i believe.

I haven't ever looked at VESA, so forgive me if this is a stupid question:
once you have used VESA to set up the hardware, if you know how to drive the
hardware cursor is there anything stopping you from doing that? Usually,
writing the code for a hardware cursor is fiddly but not hard.