Re: Can I disable the fancy RENDER cursor?
"Mike A. Harris" <[email protected]>
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On 18 May 2003, Owen Taylor wrote: >Date: 18 May 2003 22:34:31 -0400 >From: Owen Taylor <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >Content-Type: text/plain >Subject: Re: Can I disable the fancy RENDER cursor? > >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.) However, by forcing: Option "hwcursor" it should force-enable hardware cursor and remove any possible Xcursor problem. Theoretically at least. Don't have an mga installed to test with right now. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com