From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 14 22:53:34 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D81F11065689 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:53:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B5478FC23 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:53:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so19979fxm.13 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:53:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=c5OBfsNyFwsSX7kqqeQpzBlGYj2BEN09v5zYOl/SOu0=; b=vuZAMn/F5KPcf4yAcAuCz10A2oVwRZPMRwyNNK3mVeh1KaEeKTsRvuqLwLBQgPaNCS Gi4yuIpO5wClt4LLRYnUh242YbqfYRzcbDiPebdP1IooLOp8+8mo7jMV26WGHN59OSd/ 2nedqX942WLFY4eLNaBmI8ZvGKdeE+i8E361Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=EhD54Nih2nNIEDVuZm++X1wiLIob5ZnMy5ZlJ3T55Vwq2YcLZW4TrtPf4rPPFkmH8Y FLl5R/gYUfmUqsiJZwHtkfP43qhB7sn+wvcLiUjOcRTzRErVOemqnPsi/37fnx7L5IR9 ieP99eQ4YUpaqWfFlxw2STvptD5B5gpRVqsRc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.83.130 with SMTP id f2mr1221176fal.80.1300141391299; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:23:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.59.7 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:23:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:23:11 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moused flickering X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:53:34 -0000 On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Warren Block 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