From: Johan Karlberg <wlfshmn@failure.ml.org>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 03:57:17 +0200 (CEST)

Re: silly questions, probably atleast.

On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Brian Julin wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Johan Karlberg wrote:
> 
> > 1. Crosshair cursors, what are they, when are they used? any examples?
> 
> Genrally those are used by people that have full motion video
> MPEG2 decoders getting video over HAM radio link from
> a small video camera duct taped to a deisel powered land
> artillery unit.  Great for picking off lawyers at 1000 yards.
> 
> :)
So there is no reason to implement this feature in a ramdac driver?
correct?

> 
> > 2. the ramdac can overlay pseudo-color regions on a direct-color region
> > (or so it semms to me), is this supported in anyway in kgi?
> 
> Not yet, unless you count display-sub which could be hacked to
> do that.

Nor this then I suppose, since hacks aren't really what we are supposed to
be doing... or we could stay with the drivers in the X-server....



> 
> --
> Brian S. Julin
>