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Date:      Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:23:11 -0500
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: moused flickering
Message-ID:  <AANLkTik9BL5JO=ELZSXr-9=mhrPia2fs7GcvPWCZ=4cr@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103141558400.70354@wonkity.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103141558400.70354@wonkity.com>

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On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:

> With moused enabled or started by a USB mouse, moving the mouse pointer on
> a console screen causes other characters on the screen to flicker.
>
> It's not very visible on a mostly-black screen, but run lptest to get some
> text and mouse the mouse around.
>
> This seems new.  It's possible it's a memory problem with the video board,
> but it seems unlikely because there aren't any other noticeable problems.
>  This machine is running i386 8-stable.
>

I see it here, but it's not so much a flicker at least as I would describe
it.  If you hover your mouse over a character it appears to add at least 1
px width to the character, and only on certain characters, "m" or "M" for
example.

-- 
Adam Vande More



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