Description of Problem: On the Desktop, I went into "System Settings"->"Display"->"Advanced" and noticed that the "Monitor Type" field says "Monitor Model", which I find inappropriate. If I proceed to "Configure..." and click "Probe Monitor", it properly detects "Hyundai HT-7695B". The monitor was properly recognized at the very beginning of the installation ( CD,GUI ) and also after copying the packages, when X was configured. Gfx card is : SiS 6326 8MB PCI Also , after saving the new correct settings , a line was added to the "Device" Section of the vga card : Option "swcursor" "" This turns on swcursor, while it was using a HW cursor before. Is that intentional ? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): XFree86***-4.2.0-72 How Reproducible: ? maybe with a new install. I did not try to reproduce it yet. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
Any options put into the config file are intentional. Please paste the output of "lspci -vn" for your video card. Also, if you comment out the "swcursor" line, does the mouse cursor work correctly? Run lots of applications, preferably including video apps, mozilla, and various others please. If there is no on screen video corruption while after removing swcursor, then I can remove it for the future. If there is corruption, I'd like to fix the driver. TIA
The problem here, IMHO, is that the "swcursor" option was added "magically" without any such request from the user. I only changed the monitor setting, I don't expect that is also covertly changes the gfx device's settings. IIRC , HS cursor is buggy, while SW cursor is OK. HW cursor disappears after a VT7 -> VT1 -> VT7 switch, but comes back after a few seconds if I move the mouse around.
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