Fedora Core test3 on Latitude D800 [report]
Mike A. Harris
mharris at redhat.com
Tue Oct 21 10:23:53 UTC 2003
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Lauri Jutila wrote:
>5) The cursor in X acts a little weirdly, sometimes not changing the
>cursor from resizing cursor to normal arrow. This occurs mostly with
>terminals, especially Eterm. In 2.6.0, the cursor doesn't ever change
>back to normal arrow after being changed once.
Hmm... that is very very odd. The mouse cursor is either
"software" in which it uses generic X server code to implement a
mouse cursor which gets drawn directly into the framebuffer, or
it is a "hardware" cursor, which is implemented usually in the
video hardware itself and overlaid on top of the framebuffer via
the DAC or another mechanism, and requires special video driver
support, which most drivers currently support.
Both the software and hardware cursor support shouldn't in any
way depend on which kernel is installed. If you are using Red
Hat supplied open source video drivers, I would expect the mouse
cursor to work identically regardless of which kernel is in use.
Can you test and confirm this?
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Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
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