The ATI drivers have been having mouse cursor artifact problems in current CVS on all Radeon hardware related to Xcursor being used. If "swcursor" is used, or if cursor themes are overridden by using "core" cursors, the problem goes away. The problems people have been reporting include visual artifacts while cursor shapes change at window borders, cursors disappearing for anywhere up to 10 seconds or so then reappearing, jittery cursors, and other similar problems.
The one below is a report on Mach64 hardware, so it doesn't appear centric to Radeon, but more generic. Just wondering if anyone is currently investigating any Radeon/Mach64 related issues like this.. Also, just out of curiousity, does anyone experience these problems with other video drivers/chips at all? Thanks in advance, TTYL -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat ---------- Forwarded message ---------- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83284 Description of problem: ------------------------------- I have upgraded my Phoebe2 system to the latest XFree86 packages from RawHide (they were XFree86-4.2.99-4.20030129 at that moment) and I have noticed some visual glitches with my mouse cursor when it changes its shape. The visual glitch is hard to describe: basically, when the mouse shape is changed (from an arrow to the I-box, for example, or when you hover over a window resize handle), for a very short period, the mouse is shown as a big 32x32 (I think) mess of vertical lines of different thickness, and then, it returns to its normal appearance. It doesn't seem a driver problem, since in XFree86-4.2.99.3-20030115.0 this problem is not present. Also, this is mainly a visual problem since the mouse cursor is drawn incorrectly for a few microseconds. My video card is an ATI Rage Mobility M1 AGP 8MB using the Gatos SourceForge ATI 4.2.0 and 4.3.0 (experimental) video driver with XV support. I have had to downgrade to XFree86-4.2.99.3-20030115.0 since this visual effect is disgusting for me. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- XFree86-4.2.99-4.20030129 How reproducible: ------------------------ Always Steps to Reproduce: --------------------------- 1. Install Phoebe2 onto a computer with an ATI Rage Mobility M! (or Mach64) video card or similar. 2. Upgrade to XFree86-4.2.99-4.20030129 from RawHide 3. Get the Gatos ATI.2 video driver from http://gatos.sourceforge.net and install it. 4. Launch X 5. Make the cursor shape change by hovering the mouse cursor over a window resize handle, for example. Sometimes, the visual glitch described is shown. Actual results: -------------------- The mouse cursor looks strange during transition of mouse cursor shape. Expected results: ----------------------- Mouse cursor should always be drawn correctly, as in previous versions of XFree86 Additional info: --------------------- Phoebe2 clean install doesn't exhibit this hehaviour. However, upgrading to a newer XFree86 version using up2date, or manually from RawHide, makes this show. It seems a problem with new mouse cursor handling, as mouse cursors also look different in RawHide (for example, Mozilla uses a combined arrow-hourglass mouse cursor while downloading Web pages). ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
