From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 12 02:49:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD83F16A41C for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 02:49:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from lexi.siliconlandmark.com (lexi.siliconlandmark.com [209.69.98.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CD5F43D53 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 02:49:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from lexi.siliconlandmark.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lexi.siliconlandmark.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6C2nCQn076391; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:49:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost) by lexi.siliconlandmark.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) with ESMTP id j6C2nCCu076388; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:49:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) X-Authentication-Warning: lexi.siliconlandmark.com: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:49:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet To: Nicolas Blais In-Reply-To: <200507091406.35280.nb_root@videotron.ca> Message-ID: <20050711224548.C80892@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> References: <200507091406.35280.nb_root@videotron.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-SL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-SL-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.539, required 6, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.06, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: andy@siliconlandmark.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No mouse with vidcontrol to 1024x768 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 02:49:16 -0000 On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Nicolas Blais wrote: > When I try to switch console resolution to any 24-bit color depth, such as > vidcontrol -m on MODE_280, it switches perfectly to a beautiful shell and > nice fonts but I loose my mouse cursor. I can still select text (guessing > from where my mouse used to be) and passing my mouse over text distorts it a > bit. If I switch to 16-bit depth my mouse appears and everything is fine. > This is all resolutions. > > MODE_280 is 1024x768@24bpp while MODE_279 is 1024x768@16bpp. > > I have a : > drm0: port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem > 0xe8000000-0xefffffff,0xfbe00000-0xfbe0ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1 > > With enough power to draw a cursor :) I am seeing the same behavior with: none5@pci8:12:0: class=0x030000 card=0x34398086 chip=0x47521002 rev=0x27 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc' device = 'Rage XL PCI' class = display subclass = VGA FreeBSD bling.properkernel.com 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #2: Mon Jul 4 02:45:50 EDT 2005 root@bling.properkernel.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BLING i386 For some weird reason, when using a mode that does draw the cursor, it doesn't honor my request to use a block cursor. My custom kernel is a dumbed down version of generic with the following: options SC_ALT_MOUSE_IMAGE options SC_CUT_SPACES2TABS options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=4096 options SC_PIXEL_MODE options VESA options VGA_WIDTH90 Cheers, Andy /* Andre Guibert de Bruet * 6f43 6564 7020 656f 2e74 4220 7469 6a20 */ /* Code poet / Sysadmin * 636f 656b 2e79 5320 7379 6461 696d 2e6e */ /* GSM: +1 734 846 8758 * 5520 494e 2058 6c73 7565 6874 002e 0000 */ /* WWW: siliconlandmark.com * Tormenting bytes since 1980. */