Hi guys,
I was wondering if anyone is having any cursor problems when running FC6 with two monitors. I have a Dell machine with an ATI Radeon dual port card that is having some strange issues when I move the mouse cursor across to the screen two.
The cursor doesn't change when it is on the second screen, for example if I move it quickly from screen one to screen two and on screen one I was using a text editor the cursor on screen two will be a text editor's cursor and will never become a pointer nor any other type of cursor. If I move it over some part of a window where we would expect the cursor to change it won't change.
I am at this moment using a driver provided by ATI but I have used the radeon driver that comes with FC6 and I have the exact same problem. I also tried using "SWcursor On" in my xorg.conf, this fixes the problem but creates another one. When I move the mouse cursor anywhere on any screen it leaves a trace of dirty on the screen as if I was moving a square and so my screen becomes full of squares.
I am running xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.fc6 and kernel 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6. My xorg config is simple and I am running xinerama.
If anyone is having the same issue and would like to discuss this or if you even know that could be causing this problem, I would very much like to talk to you.
Regards, Vini
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 11:20 +1100, Vini Engel wrote:
Hi guys,
I was wondering if anyone is having any cursor problems when running FC6 with two monitors. I have a Dell machine with an ATI Radeon dual port card that is having some strange issues when I move the mouse cursor across to the screen two.
Known bug, present in the upstream source too. Please file them upstream with Xorg (bugs.freedesktop.org, Xorg product, Radeon driver component). Technically, two known bugs, one each for hardware and software cursor.
ISTR one of the radeon driver maintainers talking about it a while ago, but I don't recall if they ever got anywhere with fixing it.
- ajax
Adam Jackson said the following on 02/12/06 02:19:
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 11:20 +1100, Vini Engel wrote:
Hi guys,
I was wondering if anyone is having any cursor problems when running FC6 with two monitors. I have a Dell machine with an ATI Radeon dual port card that is having some strange issues when I move the mouse cursor across to the screen two.
Known bug, present in the upstream source too. Please file them upstream with Xorg (bugs.freedesktop.org, Xorg product, Radeon driver component). Technically, two known bugs, one each for hardware and software cursor.
ISTR one of the radeon driver maintainers talking about it a while ago, but I don't recall if they ever got anywhere with fixing it.
Cool thanks, at least now I know that it is a bug. Anywhere else you think I should look for some king of work around for it?
I will file them at bugs.freedesktop.org.
Thanks Vini
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 22:01 +1100, Vini Engel wrote:
Cool thanks, at least now I know that it is a bug. Anywhere else you think I should look for some king of work around for it?
None that I know of, and I don't expect you'd find one.
- ajax
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