[GRLUG] ATI, dual head, and mouse

[Mark Van Holstyn]

Have you tried playing with the HWCursor option?

mark

On 8/14/06, Roberto Villarreal <rvillarreal at mktec.com> wrote:
>
> While trying to get the binary ('fglrx') ATI driver to work on my laptop,
> I
> somehow hosed the stock driver (it will only run at 640x480).  So I'm now
> using the binary exclusively.  However, I just plugged in my secondary
> monitor for the first time since I switched.  The configuration
> (surprisingly) worked with no changes, but there is one thing that is
> screwy:
> on the secondary monitor, my cursor changes from an arrow to a large
> (height
> is about five lines of e-mail text tall) square with garbled lines in it.
>
> This is probably related, but in single head configuration, I noticed that
> sometimes my cursor would be 'underlined'... a very thin line would appear
> under it.  Now that I think about it, the length and distance from the
> pointer was about the exact dimension of the bottom edge of this 'box' on
> my
> secondary monitor...  This glitch was tolerable (I could make it
> 'disappear'
> by moving the mouse around the screen), but the square cursor must die!
>
> Any ideas?  On the plus side, the upper left corner of the square
> corresponds
> to the tip of the pointer... :-\
>
> kernel: 2.6.16
> Xorg: 7.0.22 (w/ xinerama)
> ATI: 8.27.10 (latest and greatest)
>
> Roberto
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