[GRLUG] ATI, dual head, and mouse

[Roberto Villarreal]

I had not... I was not familiar with it.  That option showed no difference 
(either on or off), but there was a similar option "SWCursor".  That 
definitely did something... but I think it was one step forward and two steps 
back.  Configuring SWCursor to 'on' gave me my mouse back, but at the expense 
of every window dragging operation or navigation of menus leaving streaks of 
color behind.  This occured on both the primary and secondary.

Anything else?

Roberto

On Monday 14 August 2006 12:07 pm, Mark Van Holstyn wrote:
> 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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