no mouse cursor on nv50

Adam Borowski kilobyte at angband.pl
Mon Jun 18 19:19:02 UTC 2018


On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 06:18:34PM +1000, Ben Skeggs wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 7:46 AM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte at angband.pl> wrote:
> > On v4.18-rc1, the mouse cursor is missing on my right monitor.
> > Card is G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2].
> >
> > I have two monitors: one small landscape 1280x1024 on DVI-I-1 left, and one
> > big 1600x1200 (1200x1600 portrait) on HDMI-1 right.  Curiously, the cursor
> > is missing not only with proper xrandr setup after logging in but even in
> > mirrored mode at the lightdm greeter[1].  How is this even possible if both
> > screens are supposed to be identical?
> >
> > # first bad commit: [5bca1621c07c3ad37b5a4943450a892e18984df0] drm/nouveau/kms/nv50-: move fb ctxdma tracking into windows
> >
> > Alas, the bad commit can't be easily reverted as there's a lot of further
> > work on the file on question.
> 
> Thanks for the report!  Can you give
> https://github.com/skeggsb/linux/commit/fffdc521f313031b1745a264ec0d5c848c2475d1
> a try and see if it helps the issue you're seeing?

Yay, it works!  Both for mirrored and extended w/ different orientation.


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