Re: Can I disable the fancy RENDER cursor?

Owen Taylor <[email protected]> 18 May 2003 22:34:31 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.redhat.xfree86
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 19:53, Bill Crawford wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 
> > Unless you've disabled hardware cursors manually, or are using
> > hardware which does not support color cursors in hardware, then
> > you should be using hardware cursors already.  Consult your X
> > server log to be sure.  Also, you may want to play with both the
> > swcursor and hwcursor options.
> 
>  It's a G400 and I've never had any trouble with cursors .. but I
> don't think it likes ARGB ones.

Indeed, no hardware alpha-blended cursor for G400 ... as it turns out,
the video hardware simply can't do it. (In fact, the ATI drivers are
somewhat of an exception having hardware support for 
hardware-alpha-blended cursors.)

Regards,
                                      Owen



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