[Intel-gfx] Hardware/Software Cursor?

[Steven J Newbury]

On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 22:11 -0700, Tony Bones wrote:
> Word, I didn't expect it to even be available, plus that link was for
> nvidia driver.  I just threw it out there, I don't know what's causing
> it.  suspend/resume functions, Xorg, intel drivers, something else
> entirely.  Any ideas?  Anything I can test for?  Kinda sux to have a
> cursor in the middle of the screen every time I resume from S3.  Does
> this sound like a graphics driver issue?  I can submit a bug report, I
> just wasn't sure if it even had to do with graphics driver.
> Thanks
> 
Tony, it's probably your WM taking focus from the mythfrontend on
resume.  You could try running without one?

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Maxim Levitsky
> <maximlevitsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>         On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 13:34 -0700, Tony Bones wrote:
>         > I know the SWCursor option was removed some time ago, but I
>         thought
>         > I'd ask anyway.  Is there a way to force software cursor
>         mode instead
>         > of hardware cursor?
>         >
>         > I came across this "bug" and I wanted to see if this did the
>         trick on
>         > the intel driver too.  I'm running MythTV, and when I come
>         out of
>         > suspend the cursor is right in the middle of the screen.  If
>         I click
>         > the mouse or alt+tab the keyboard, myth gets focus and the
>         cursor
>         > hides again.
>         > http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=55295
>         >
>         > I'm compiling everything from source via gentoo so I could
>         always get
>         > in the code and toggle a variable to test too, if there is
>         one.  Could
>         > someone point me to the line in the code that could turn on
>         the
>         > software cursor?  I'm running 2.8.0.
>         >
>         >
>         > Thanks for any help,
>         > Tony
>         >
>         
>         
>         SWCursor would disable all 3D/2D acceleration, thus the fact
>         that
>         software cursor 'fixed' the problem can be a red herring.
>         

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