Re: Can I disable the fancy RENDER cursor?

["Mike A. Harris" <mharris www linux org uk>]

On 18 May 2003, Owen Taylor wrote:

>Date: 18 May 2003 22:34:31 -0400
>From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
>To: xfree86-list redhat com
>Reply-To: xfree86-list redhat com
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>Subject: Re: Can I disable the fancy RENDER cursor?
>
>On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 19:53, Bill Crawford wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 May 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>> 
>> > Unless you've disabled hardware cursors manually, or are using
>> > hardware which does not support color cursors in hardware, then
>> > you should be using hardware cursors already.  Consult your X
>> > server log to be sure.  Also, you may want to play with both the
>> > swcursor and hwcursor options.
>> 
>>  It's a G400 and I've never had any trouble with cursors .. but I
>> don't think it likes ARGB ones.
>
>Indeed, no hardware alpha-blended cursor for G400 ... as it turns out,
>the video hardware simply can't do it. (In fact, the ATI drivers are
>somewhat of an exception having hardware support for 
>hardware-alpha-blended cursors.)

However, by forcing:

	Option "hwcursor"

it should force-enable hardware cursor and remove any possible 
Xcursor problem.  Theoretically at least.  Don't have an mga 
installed to test with right now.

-- 
Mike A. Harris