Bug 448440

Created attachment 306709 [details]
Picture of invalid cursor

Hi, Ulrich,

can we get your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file
(/var/log/Xorg.*.log)?

Thanks

Created attachment 306775 [details]
xorg.conf

Hand-generated xorg.conf.  s-c-d couldn't do it.

Created attachment 306778 [details]
Xorg.0.log files

bzip2-compressed Xorg.0.log file

Created attachment 306781 [details]
Xorg.setup.log

bzip2-compressed Xorg.setup.log file

Created attachment 306837 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Created attachment 306839 [details]
Xorg.setup.log

One more interesting observation:

I had the cursor turn strange while an animated cursor was used (firefox,
submitting a form).  The result was that the strange cursor also was animated. 
I.e., these spinning dots repeated vertically.

I.e., the saw-like form is the result of painting the real cursor form multiple
times vertically, overlaying each other.  In the horizontal direction the cursor
is not wide enough.

Hi, Ulrich,

I got from airlied two things:

a) if you use the very latest drivers from updates-testing, Xinerama should
hopefully (many more adjectives follow) work.
b) xrandr should work as well, could you try to add to your section with Driver
"radeon" this line
Option "SWcursor" "true"
? Does it help?

BTW, for more info radeon(4) is cool ;-)

With the software cursor enabled I don't see the problem.

BTW: why should I use xinerama?  I though xrandr is the future?  It seems to
work fine.

(In reply to comment #11)
> BTW: why should I use xinerama?  I though xrandr is the future?  It seems to
> work fine.

No, you certainly don't have to. Airlied was just curious whether he has
actually fixed Xinerama for you ;). And yes, xrandr is the future (but
officially it hasn't come yet).

BTW, is not CLOSED yet, because hardware cursor should work (although I believe
the speed difference is negligible).

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I'm using SW Cursors for ages now.  The machine still runs F9.  Not sure whether any more recent release fixes things.  I'll file a new bug if I find a problem when I update the machine and still see problems.

I've updated to F11 now and the problem still exists.  I'll use SWcursor again but perhaps this can be looked at.  I can run some limited testing if necessary.  The video card is the same as before.

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In F12 I'm actually not using any xorg.conf anyway.  And Xinerama is not used, xrandr is.  I don't see the problem with this configuration which doesn't mean it is fixed.  But since I couldn't get Xinerama to work with F12 at all (the old config file produces no usable output, wrong resolution, flickering, green coloring...) I canot really verify this problem anymore.

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