gma500: display displaced vertically by a few lines

[Patrik Jakobsson]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Holger Schurig <holgerschurig at gmail.com> wrote:
> Patrick, have a
>
> Tested-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig at gmail.com>
>
> for this.

I'll add that.

> As for your suggestion:
>
>> though I recommend you use the modesetting driver because you get
>> a hardware accelerated cursor.
>
> The current Debian Wheezy xserver-xorg doesn't autoload the
> modesettings X11 driver. And I haven't found out how to manually load
> that driver ...   also, there is about zilch documentation on that
> driver available, also the error messages in the Xorg.0.log don't help
> in any way. So, all in all this is too much hassle.

That still confuses me, but let's hope it automagically goes away some day.

> So I'll wait until support for that comes in up Debian SID a.k.a.
> Unstable. I actually don't care about an "accelerated cursor" at all.
> I don't perceive the mouse cursor (or the text cursor in rxvt-unicode)
> to be "slow", so there's not much reason (for me!) in accellerating it
> in the first place.

Sure, you'll only see a difference if you're running a compositing window
manager or your system is under heavy load.

-Patrik