Thanks to Julius Szelagiewicz, Jim McQuil, Stuart Baird, and cliebow for pointing me at the solution of using SWCursor in the XFree86 configuration.
A google search for SWCursor shows that the problem appears to be related to hardware bugs and/or video driver implementation for several graphics chip sets, and is not specific to Linux or LTSP., showing up with Windows as well. The solution is the same, using a software pointer instead of hardware pointer, or possibly changing the driver to work around the problem. In the case of the VIA Edens, the integrated graphics is listed as "Trident Blade 3D graphics core". From xfree86.org: Option ``HWCursor'', which is the default, specifies that hardware facilities are to be used to paint the mouse pointer on the screen. Option ``SWCursor'' specifies that the mouse pointer is to by drawn by software, which is much slower. I am relatively new to LTSP and this mailing list, but it appears that there are a number of clients that are used more frequently than others. What if we build a little database of lts.conf settings for devices that require or could benefit from special settings? It could also be as simple as adding a few more commented-out examples for specific graphics adapters common to LTSP to lts.conf itself. >Peter, > known problem. add the following line in lts.conf: >X_DEVICE_OPTION_01 = SWCursor >julius > >On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Peter Bakker wrote: > > > We have in the last week put LTSP into production using 7 of the VIA EDEN > > 533 diskless workstations. We are very happy with its basic operation, > > response is snappy, bootup time is fast, operation has been reliable > and quiet. > > > > An annoyance that I have seen several times, reported by two different > > users on multiple occasions, is a problem with the mouse pointer. The > > pointer points approx 20 pixels too far to the right. If you know what is > > going on you can actually point a little to the right of where you want to > > click, but this is very confusing. I have tried Ctrl Alt Backspace, but > > that does not clear the problem. A reboot fixes the problem. The problem > > seems to appear after several hours of use. View our website at <http://www.iccontrols.com> 1-519-941-8161, 1-800-265-9161,Fax: 1-519-941-8164, E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
