Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:09:09 +1100 From: Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> To: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with XFree86. S3 Trio 3D 2X/XSVGA XF86336. has large square white cursor Icon. Very hard to use. Message-ID: <20020112160908.A245@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020113025921.00ba7ff0@pop-server.nyc.rr.com>; from scottro@nyc.rr.com on Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 03:01:18AM -0500 References: <20020112144453.A453@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> <5.1.0.14.0.20020113025921.00ba7ff0@pop-server.nyc.rr.com>
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Dear Sir,
I am writing to thank you very much for your speedy offer of help.
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 03:01:18AM -0500, Scott wrote:
> At 14:44 2002/01/12 +1100, Stanley Hopcroft wrote:
> >Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
> >
> >I am writing to ask your advice about dealing with a large white (about
> >1/2" - 1 cm side length) square mouse cursor with XFree86.
> >
>
>
> I ran into this and fixed it, after searching deja, by lowering (in
> XF86Config) the video RAM from 8192 to 4096. (Same video card as yours)
>
>
> HTH
> Scott Robbins
>
A google search also suggested that the s3virge driver does not support
a hardware cursor (and of course, hardware cursor is the default
setting).
Here is what got me going (ie add Option "SWCursor" to the
"Device" section).
> diff -c XF86Config XF86Config.bak
*** XF86Config Sat Jan 12 15:12:28 2002
--- XF86Config.bak Sat Jan 12 14:53:40 2002
***************
*** 79,85 ****
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "S3 Trio3D/2X"
# Option "no_accel" # You may enable this if there are
# timeouts when starting X
- Option "SWCursor"
EndSection
--- 79,84 ----
>
Thank you very much for your help.
Yours sincerely.
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Stanley Hopcroft Network Specialist
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