Re: X cursor

Keith Packard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Around 8 o'clock on Nov 14, Keith Whitwell wrote:

> For what it's worth, the current software implementation of 32bit cursors 
> breaks with direct rendering as the X server doesn't know to copy the cursor 
> in that case, and the DRI drivers were designed to assume a hardware cursor.

I added code to the server to switch from software to hardware cursors 
when DRI (or Xv with overlays) was up to avoid these problems; it took 
some driver cooperation which should be present in the Radeon driver but 
may well be missing or broken at this point.

-keith
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