The config file was generated by dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. All the comments were already there, including that one. I tried uncommenting it and using "on" and "off", but that didn't help.
Thanks, Bas Wijnen On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 02:06:47AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > retitle 260598 xserver-xfree86: [i740] X cursor not updated correctly > tag 260598 + upstream moreinfo > thanks > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 12:15:23PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > Package: xserver-xfree86 > > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 > > > > The background of the pointer on my X, using the i740 server, is not > > updated when the pointer moves in steps. Nor is the pointer updated, > > until it moves again. This means that when there is a step move, or an > > other sudden change (the scroll wheel makes step moves in gnome-terminal, > > for example. An other change is the mapping of a window under the > > pointer due to interactive placement), the pointer is not redrawn until > > it moves. When it does, there is a square below it which is filled with > > its old background. An especially big mess can be made when dragging a > > window: in that case parts of the square under the pointer are copied > > over themselves. As an example I made a screen shot of an xterm, which > > shows the background from a "change virtual desktop with hotkey, then > > move the mouse" situation, where I used the scrollwheel to go up and down > > several times, and which I dragged a little over the desktop. > [...] > > All problems mentioned can be "solved" by forcing a redraw, for example you > > switching to and from a different virtual desktop. Having to do that all > > the > > time is quite annoying though. > > Have you tried turning off the hardware cursor? The XF86Config-4 you > supplied has a commented-out line to do exactly this. (Though I do note > with some disappointment that upstream did not deign to provide a manpage > for the i740 driver.) > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | One man's "magic" is another man's > Debian GNU/Linux | engineering. "Supernatural" is a > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | null word. > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein -- I encourage sending me encrypted e-mail. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. for more information, see http://129.125.47.90/e-mail.html
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