On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 00:03, Greg Ward wrote: > At any rate, I have managed to "minimize VC switch time", which was > my original goal. I can now switch between consoles and X servers > with very little monitor dead time and no mode-switch "click" from my > monitor. All I had to do was use "fbset" to set a mode I like > (1280x1024 @ 75 Hz), and then copy and paste from "fbset -x"'s output to > the "Monitor" section of my XF86Config-4 file. That's neat.
Glad it helps. > However, setting > UseFBDev "true" > with the "mga" driver has a weird effect. When I first start up an X > server, I get the familiar gray stipple with "X" cursor. When I switch > to another VC and then back to X, the cursor is replaced by a white > 64x64 square with a black underscore a few pixels down from the upper > left corner. My guess is that the black underscore is the cursor from > my "text" consoles, and the "few pixels" is the height of the font used > in those consoles. > > I never get a normal mouse pointer now; it's always a white 64x64 box, > except in XEmacs where it's grey (XEmacs' background colour). > > Is this a known problem? Might it be a bug in the mga driver? Yes. Disabling the hardware cursor either in matroxfb or the X server might serve as a workaround. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
