Re: How to turn off the hardware mouse rendering?

Andrew C Aitchison <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, [gb2312] Daniel() wrote:

> I want to snap a desktop include the mouse pointer. However, the
> common tools and functions can not capture a windows image include
> mouse. I think it's because the mouse is not draw by Graphic Card
> and is not put to the color buffer. So how to stop the hardware
> acceleration? Or there is some special way to do this job?

You could try putting
    Option     "SWcursor"
into the "Device" Section of the Xserver config.

[ There are hardware and feature combinations that don't work well
with software cursors. For example it doesn't mix with video overlay;
you may wish to experiment with disabling XVideo. ]
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