> > Odd thing I find on this laptop (a new one), is that the mouse cursor > > has this habit of getting a 30 pixel or so offset to the right every > > now and then. I.e. it paints 30 pixels further right than it actually > > is. Hmm, that's probably 32, eh. > > Probably; this sounds remarkably like some hardware (Neomagic?) that I > had forever ago that had some bugs in either the software or hardware...
lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP] 00:06.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics LT WinModem 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 10) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 10) 00:07.4 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30)00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 20) 00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01) 00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade i1 (rev 6a) > > Any ideas why this could be? Who paints the cursor, X, or is there > > some ... "hardware" involved? > > Yes. Specifically, X will do a software cursor if it needs to, but likes > to use the hardware support. Is there much of a performance difference? I guess I'll find out as soon as I manage to change it... > Most modern hardware supports cursor drawing, but occasional glitches > prevent it working correctly or reliably. > > Check the notes for the X server to see if you can turn off hardware > cursors and that may help. There isn't a /usr/share/doc/xserver-xfree86/README.trident ... grepping through the other README's points out that some call the option "sw_cursor", and other call it "SWcursor". I guess I could try both, see if either work... Thanks, Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
