There is a fix in current CVS for this. Also GATOS code has a similar fix
as well.
best
Vladimir Dergachev
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 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
>
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> 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).
>
>
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