On 22 Nov 2002, Michel D�nzer wrote:
> On Don, 2002-11-21 at 18:12, George Staikos wrote:
> > Attached is a patch to uncorrupt the mouse pointer on PowerPC based
> > laptops with Radeon M9 chipsets. I'm not sure if there are other chipsets
> > that need this or not as this is the only one I have, but it fixes things
> > for me.
>
> IMHO this makes ugly code (bit masks and shifts to compensate for the
> framebuffer aperture byte swapping...) even uglier. I'd prefer disabling
> that byte swapping (as is done in the radeon Xv code and I proposed for
> ARGB cursors), using another aperture or a surface.
>
> Moreover, this is probably a bandaid for the real problem, which I
> suspect also causes the color problems people are experiencing with
> Radeon 9000s on big endian machines: the byte swapping doesn't seem to
> work as expected.
>
Michel, note that Keith fixed a BigEndian client bug with ARGB
cursors the other day. SW cursor works now. If your HW cursor support
worked with the broken cursors it probably doesn't work anymore
with the correct ones.
Mark.
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