Linux-Hardware Digest #768, Volume #14 Mon, 14 May 01 12:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Hercules Game Theatre XP
Net2Phone Yap Handset (Youngert)
Re: SiS video card 6236: mouse cursor is white square in X (Dances With Crows)
Re: Help with Ftape / T3000 drive (Allan R. Batteiger)
Re: Soundblaster Live vs. XFree86 v4.0.3 - an irq conflict? (HELP!!!) - further
details (Andrew Markebo)
Re: RAM question (SammyTheSnake)
Re: Recommend sound card for Linux? (Kenneth Rørvik)
Re: ORiNOCO Wavelan Question (Ralph Metzler)
Re: Compaq Smartstation SCSI contoller (LTE ELITE) (freedman)
Intel Fayettville motherboard ("Jorgen")
No IRQ found ? (Vinay Iyengar)
Re: Video Card ????? (Michael Meissner)
Re: Stupid D-Link DFE-530+, how to fix in RH 7.1? (Adriel Michaud)
Re: No IRQ found ? (Dean Thompson)
Re: sis 6215c (Adhikarla Ravi Siddharth)
Re: RAM question (Eric P. McCoy)
HP PhotoSmart 215 ("Robert A. Knop Jr.")
pci irq sharing problem ("Anotonio Pasciarella")
Re: Wavelan2_cs driver with Mandrake 2.4 (2.4.3-20) (Michael Meissner)
Re: SiS video card 6236: mouse cursor is white square in X (John Thompson)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hercules Game Theatre XP
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:10:18 GMT
I am very seriously considering buying one of these cards because I am completely fed
up with my SB Live! and the unresolvable crackling problem. (I am choosing this one
over the SonicFury or Santa Cruz because
of the cool breakout box that it comes with.)
Can anybody verify that this card works properly under Linux? Are any of its features
lacking in support?
Thankyou.
-Andrew Nesbit
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From: Youngert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Net2Phone Yap Handset
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:15:14 GMT
Hi,
I have been using the Net2Phone Yap Handset on a Windows platform for years
and it turns out the device is excellent for what it is supposed to do.
However, I am fed up with the creepy Windows OS that crashes a lot of time.
I am wondering if there is any support for this device under Linux that
anyone knows of. As far as the device concerns, I am open to any
suggestion that may get the device working under Linux.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Subject: Re: SiS video card 6236: mouse cursor is white square in X
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 May 2001 13:43:27 GMT
On Mon, 14 May 2001 04:53:12 GMT, Jonadab the Unsightly One staggered
into the Black Sun and said:
>I have a SiS video card which I think[1] is an 8MB model 6236 with 3D
>Accelerator and 8MB SDRAM. It plugs into the AGP slot. (Motherboard
>is Via chipset, BioStar M7VKB 2.0.) When I was configuring X (while
>installing Mandrake 7.2) I selected SiS 6236 and selected my monitor
>(PGS EO70), and everything works great *except* the mouse cursor, which
>is a white square (or nearly square rectangle). Positioning the white
>square over a place where the mouse cursor would normally change (such
>as over the edge of a window where a resize-double-arrow would normally
>occur) causes the white square to shift position a little, but it's
>still a white square. It *functions* properly, in that I can resize
[snippage]
In /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/XF86Config or wherever Debian keeps the
XF86Config file, find the line that says
Section "Device"
and put the following line below it:
Option "sw_cursor"
HTH,
--
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http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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Subject: Re: Help with Ftape / T3000 drive
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allan R. Batteiger)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:03:37 GMT
Cerberus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
The cable I have has a female 40pin header on one end for the
tape drive. On the other end it has a male 40 pin header to fit
the floppy cable. I do not think you actually need it if your
floppy cable can reach the tape drive and floppy drive. My cable
is a "straight cable", no twist or split wires.
>Ahhh.... Could you describe this splitter cable in more
>detail. Maybe where I could get one, if you know? I just
>picked up a T 3000 and was trying to get it to work on the
>"B" connector of the floppy cable. No wonder it won't work if
>it's not designed to go there.
>
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Real-Time Services Inc.
2530 Tarpley #600
Carrollton Tx. 75006
972-245-4239
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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Soundblaster Live vs. XFree86 v4.0.3 - an irq conflict? (HELP!!!) -
further details
From: Andrew Markebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:14:17 GMT
You should probably continue to ask for this in some linux group :-)
/Andy
p.s. tried to move the soundcard around between a couple of
PCI-slots?? This gives it differnt IRQ's.. Don't choose the PCI slot
closest to the graphics card, neither one close to the ISA-slots they
often have shared IRQ's
/ Zed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Hello Andy,
|
| at the moment, I neither use esd nor the kde sound daemon, which may or may (not
|block?) /dev/dsp. I use the spartanic twm (the default XFree Windowmanager).
|
| Further: When I let play a sound under a console and quickly switch to another
|console and start X, the system freezes and the sound loops...
|
| The linux-2.4.4/Documentation/sound/Introduction says:
| "2) If you get motor-boating (the same sound or part of a
| sound clip repeated), you probably have either an IRQ
| or DMA conflict. Move the card to another IRQ or DMA
| port. This has happened to me when playing long files
| when I had an IRQ conflict."
|
| /proc/dma says
| 4: cascade
|
| The question is: Is this a dma conflict and how should I solve it?
| I cannot (for example) simply pass dma=1 as an argument to
|snd-card-emu10k1(alsa) oder emu10k1 (see below). But is there another way to do this,
|I don't know yet??
|
| bash-2.04# modinfo -p snd-card-emu10k1
| snd_index int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "Index value for the EMU10K1
|soundcard."
| snd_id string array (min = 1, max = 8), description "ID string for the EMU10K1
|soundcard."
| snd_dac_frame_size int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "DAC frame size in kB
|for the EMU10K1 soundcard."
| snd_adc_frame_size int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "ADC frame size in kB
|for the EMU10K1 soundcard."
| snd_seq_ports int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "Number of sequencer ports
|for Emu10k1 WaveTable synth."
| snd_max_synth_voices int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "Maximum number of
|voices for WaveTable"
| bash-2.04# modinfo -p emu10k1 # CreativeLabs...
| bash-2.04# modinfo -p emu10k1 # Kernel...
| bash-2.04#
|
| Greeting,
|
|
| Zed
|
|
| Andrew Markebo wrote:
| >
| > Hmm could it be something in your X-windows desktop
| > (gnome/kde/whatever) that locks the soundcard??
| >
| > /Andy
| >
| > / Karl-Heinz Pennemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > | Hello!
| > |
| > | I've got a strange problem with my (new) Soundblaster Live card. The following
| > | command
| > |
| > | # cat endoftheworld > /dev/dsp
| > |
| > | works well at the console and the test-sound is played. But under X (in an
| > | xterm as root) I get the following error message
| > |
| > | # cat: write error: Input/output error
| > [...]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SammyTheSnake)
Subject: Re: RAM question
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:29:58 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric P. McCoy wrote:
>Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Sorry.. I must've hit post instead of reply...
>
>Like you did just now?
nonono, you're both confused, here are the headers from the post in question
(dan's. snipped at 75 columns because wide lines suck)
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Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: RAM question
Date: 13 May 2001 22:19:26 -0400
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Sender: dsmith@eagle
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Xref: osyd comp.os.linux.hardware:5298
now note the one that starts "References", that's the bit that shows what
article he's following up to, if you have a newsreader that is in any way
not shite it will understand these and display what are known as "threads"
which means that you can see what he was replying to.
OTOH, it is considered polite and apropriate to quote enough of the post
you're replying to that these aren't necessary if you've been following the
preceding discussion.
HTH
Cheers & God bless
SammyTheSnake
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Subject: Re: Recommend sound card for Linux?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Rørvik)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:38:07 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter) wrote in <ZEbL6.10112$sk3.2713921
@newsb.telia.net>:
>> Can someone recommend a sound card for my Linux (v2.4, SMP Pentium3)
>> system?
>I'd recommend one of the SB Live! cards. I've got the 1024 version, can
>be had cheap and is well supported.
I agree - although it does not give all that much more than a PCI128 in
terms of features in linux. Some versions of the PCI128 can be trickier to
set up though.
--
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Nordbergv. 60A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: Ralph Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ORiNOCO Wavelan Question
Date: 14 May 2001 15:40:01 +0200
> "Dan Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Does anyone know of a way to make a linux box with a wavelan card act
> > like an access point instead of a peer-to-peer station? I have a
> > Silver ORiNOCO card installed and working in the linux box. There are
> > lots of things that do not work in peer-to-peer mode (like security
> > apparantly) and I was wondering if you can get the linux box to act
> > like an access point. I know the lucent access points use the actual
> > wavelan card in them, so I thought there might be a way..
I am using a silver ORINOCO card and several ELSA Airlancer cards in peer-to-peer
mode and it works with encryption.
I did have to upgrade them to new firmwares or the ORINOCO cards
would not talk to the ELSA cards (only the ELSAs to each other).
Maybe this also helps in your case.
Ralph
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (freedman)
Subject: Re: Compaq Smartstation SCSI contoller (LTE ELITE)
Date: 14 May 2001 14:00:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 13 May 2001 13:59:15 -0500, Johnson's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a Compaq LTE Elite with a Smartstation for docking. The
>Smartstaion has a built in SCSI controller. I have successfully used it
>on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SCO Openserver, OS/2 Warp Connect, and Win
>95.
>
>All the above mentioned OS' recognized the controller as an Adaptec
>aha-1520 without problems. I have tried installing Debian and RedHat
>without any luck. I really want to get RedHat 6.2 running. When I try
>the 1520 driver it is unrecognized. Do I need to ad parameters or will
>it just not work on Linux?
>
>FYI... I have put an aha-1540 in the ISA slot to for a "quick fix", but
>I want to use the built in one if possible. It's a matter of principle
>now.
>
>Thanks,
>Marvin Nashville, TN USA
I have the same machine and docking station. About a year ago I installed
RH 6.2 using the SCSI interface. If I remember correctly I had to use
parameters during the install to get the scsi recognized. Boot win95,
go to the system/device menu and pick the scsi interface. Look for the
hardware address and interrupt for the 1520 and write them down. Then
when you do the linux install, it will ask you which scsi card you have
and also ask if you need to set parameters. Answer yes to setting para,
and then type aha152x=addr,intr.
--
Dick Freedman
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From: "Jorgen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intel Fayettville motherboard
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 16:51:34 +0200
Hi,
I am about to buy the Intel Fayetteville motherboard for use with the Suse
7.1 -have any of you tried this combination?
-if yes, what are your experiences? -I'm thinking in terms of graphics, nic
and sound system compatibility issues, if any. I plan on using this
motherboards capabilities, and don't want to buy additional hardware for
graphics/network/sound capabilities.
There's going to be an X-server, ftp+http server running on it -any problems
with that?
Thanks,
Jørgen
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From: Vinay Iyengar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux
Subject: No IRQ found ?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 10:54:48 -0400
installing Quatech's PCD2-F/PCI PCMCIA card drive.
OS : Linux Redhat 7.1; PC : Dell Precision Workstation 400
While starting pcmcia module .. getting following message :
Starting PCMCIA services: modules cardmgr.
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 01:0a.0. Please
try
using pci=biosirq.
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 01:0a.1. Please
try
using pci=biosirq.
Yenta IRQ list 0000, PCI irq0
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta IRQ list 0000, PCI irq0
Socket status: 30000006
When a card is inserted in the socket, system crashes.
lsmod :
Module Size Used by
ds 7280 2
yenta_socket 11440 2
pcmcia_core 43072 0 [ds yenta_socket]
autofs 11264 1 (autoclean)
3c59x 25344 1 (autoclean)
ipchains 38976 0 (unused)
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Video Card ?????
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 May 2001 11:28:17 -0400
"EliteRaven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would suggest a geforce 2 mx which can be had for under 100 dollars now or
> even a radeon althoughI do not know about driver support for the radeon.
> Good luck
>
> Lenny M
>
>
> "X_Factor6" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8dnL6.42412$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > What's a good video card to get for Linux?? Currently running a ATI 8MB
> > Expert. Looking for something with a little for *ummph*, but don;t want
> to
> > spend a load of money. Let me know what you think. Thanks.
In terms of Radeon, the Radeon VE is not currently supported by a specific
driver (though the generic VESA driver does support it). I saw there were some
patches on the X mailing list to provide some support, but the last I checked
they had not been incorporated. X does supports 4 Radeon model numbers (that
it calls QD/QE/QF/QG with PCI ids 5144-5147), but whether there are other
Radeon models not yet supported, I dunno.
Over the years, I've had good luck with Matrox cards, which generally
acknowledged to have the best 2D performance (I've used the Matrox Millenium,
G200 PCI, G400 both single and dual head in various computers). I've read that
for the AGP G450, you need the latest kernel and X releases (I dunno if the
newly announced PCI G450 is supported yet). If you tend to use X for things
like text, rather than playing quake, you might want to check it out.
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PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
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From: Adriel Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stupid D-Link DFE-530+, how to fix in RH 7.1?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:30:47 -0000
I seem to have located the problem: The string match lines in the driver
are misspelled for the D-Link 530+ and the 538. They say "adpater" rather
than "adapter". This may cause for all the confusion about the card and
it's supposed support by RH. However; I seem to be having problems
compiling the driver with RH 7.1
If someone could send me the newly compiled driver from www.scyld.com on a
RH 7.1 system, it would be greatly appreciated, and if working, I would
help distribute the module to other people having the same problem via an
ftp server or a website server like angelfire or geocities just for that
one file. All I need is the compiled rtl8139.o file. You may have to d/l
some addititonal files to compile the driver, they are mentioned on the
scyld site. It seems sad that RH can't just get an update for this
module, but until they do there are a lot of people out there with non-
operational NIC's whose system is otherwise fine. I really hope someone
can give me a hand here.
Thanks in advance:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: No IRQ found ?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 01:30:46 +1000
Hi Vinay,
> installing Quatech's PCD2-F/PCI PCMCIA card drive.
> OS : Linux Redhat 7.1; PC : Dell Precision Workstation 400
>
> While starting pcmcia module .. getting following message :
> Starting PCMCIA services: modules cardmgr.
> PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 01:0a.0. Please
> try
> using pci=biosirq.
> PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 01:0a.1. Please
> try
> using pci=biosirq.
> Yenta IRQ list 0000, PCI irq0
> Socket status: 30000006
> Yenta IRQ list 0000, PCI irq0
> Socket status: 30000006
>
> When a card is inserted in the socket, system crashes.
Check to make sure that your machine has its PnP Operating System Installed
option disabled. Sometimes this will cause the computer a number of problems
when it comes to IRQ allocation.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: Adhikarla Ravi Siddharth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sis 6215c
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:31:42 -0000
Tankd wrote:
>
>
> I search xfree 3.x driver for sis 6215c card.
> PLEASE HELP ME.
> Tankd.
Hello Sir,
If you need SiS 6215C driver for Windows3.1 ,I think I can help
you.Plase visit htttp://www.sis.com.tw/support/download
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Subject: Re: RAM question
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 14 May 2001 11:30:08 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (SammyTheSnake) writes:
[...]
> now note the one that starts "References", that's the bit that shows what
> article he's following up to, if you have a newsreader that is in any way
> not shite it will understand these and display what are known as "threads"
> which means that you can see what he was replying to.
Oh, Gnus is quite good enough to display threads. My newsserver
expires articles very rapidly, typically when it runs its 2am backup
(I can sort of understand why). This means that I usually don't get
to see threads at all.
> OTOH, it is considered polite and apropriate to quote enough of the post
> you're replying to that these aren't necessary if you've been following the
> preceding discussion.
I read 4 or 5 newsgroups, at least three of which get more than 150
new articles per day. I don't read anywhere near all of those, but
I read (and reply to) enough that I can't just remember all the
context.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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From: "Robert A. Knop Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP PhotoSmart 215
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:46:29 GMT
If anybody is interested in getting this camera working with Linux, I
have my experiences online at:
http://www.sonic.net/~rknop/linux/hp215.html
-Rob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Anotonio Pasciarella")
Subject: pci irq sharing problem
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:47:30 +0000 (UTC)
I have linux-2.4.4/slackware-7.2 and I have trouble using sound card
with video card (scrolling video block the music) and using
TV card and hard disk (the access to hard disk distort the tv image)!
My motherboard is ASUS A7V and the 4 interrupt PCI are so
configurated:
INTA: Sound Card (Fortemedia, Inc Xwave QS3000A [FM801]) and AGP Video Card
INTB: TV card (Brooktree Corporation Bt878) and ATA100 hard disk controller
INTC: Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139
INTD: USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 16)
Given that the PCI interrupt should must be shared, why have I
got this "interference" when I use the same interrupt for 2 card?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Wavelan2_cs driver with Mandrake 2.4 (2.4.3-20)
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 May 2001 12:06:36 -0400
Shawn Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Has anyone got this to work yet? What's the trick?
I've heard people working on getting the wrapper around the binary module
working with the 2.4.x kernels (you might check the linux-kernel archives for
the past few weeks). My personal solution was to switch to the wvlan driver
that is part of the pcmcia package, since it now supports encryption (which it
didn't when I first set things up), and the source is of course freely
available, unlike the wavelan2 driver.
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Subject: Re: SiS video card 6236: mouse cursor is white square in X
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 08:45:43 -0500
Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> I have a SiS video card which I think[1] is an 8MB model 6236
> with 3D Accelerator and 8MB SDRAM. It plugs into the AGP slot.
> (Motherboard is Via chipset, BioStar M7VKB 2.0.) When I was
> configuring X (while installing Mandrake 7.2) I selected SiS
> 6236 and selected my monitor (PGS EO70), and everything works
> great *except* the mouse cursor, which is a white square (or
> nearly square rectangle). Positioning the white square over
> a place where the mouse cursor would normally change (such as
> over the edge of a window where a resize-double-arrow would
> normally occur) causes the white square to shift position a
> little, but it's still a white square. It *functions* properly,
> in that I can resize the window (or whatever), but it's rather
> difficult to see what I'm doing (the white square is fairly
> large as mouse cursors go), and I'd like to fix this if
> possible.
[...]
> TIA for any help. If upgrading to a newer XFree86
> will solve the problem, I'll do that, but I'd like
> to hear from someone who has it working...
>
> I'm certain it's the video card, not the monitor, because
> I've been using the monitor with X via a Matrox card for
> years (but the monitor is getting passed down to the
> family PC (with the SiS card) since I got a nicer monitor
> for myself).
My son just had a very similar problem after replacing his Matrox
Millennium card with a SiS6326 3d card. He found some stuff on
google suggesting turning off hardware acceleration, etc. but in
the end it was easily solved by replacing the original 3.3.5 SVGA
server with the 3.3.6 SVGA server. This is much easier than
going to XFree86 v4.x unless you really have a need for the 4.x
features.
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