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Re: Hotplugging: VGA to alubook 5,8 [was: Re: getting wireless and dvi out [ ... ]]



On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 02:47 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 23 2007, at 18:58 +0100, Bin Zhang wrote:
> > On Nov 23, 2007 2:54 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto@gmx.net> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 23 2007, at 14:49 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> > >
> > > > Sidenotes:
> > > >
> > > > Since installing the new driver some artifacts are visible around the
> > > > mouse-pointer in its default "arrow" image ...  Please let me know if
> > >
> > > This last line should have been saying:
> > > "mouse-pointer on X in its default "arrow" image [ ... ]"
> > >                ^^^^
> > >
> > > > a photo from that might help ...
> > > >
> > > > And the mouse is completely gone on the console .. haven't had time,
> > > > yet, to google/explore that ...
> > 
> > Try adding a line
> > Option  "SWcursor" "on"
> > in Section "Device" of your xorg.conf.

That's a rather heavy-handed workaround - in particular, the SW cursor
interacts badly with 3D acceleration and XVideo.

> The problem seems being gone for the moment, without having changed
> xorg.conf here ...

Only legacy two-colour cursors are affected, not modern 32 bit ARGB
cursors.


> S-video unknown connection 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis
> ) 0mm x 0mm
>    800x600        60.3* 
> 
> ## Note: There was no S-video connection that I knew about

It can't be detected reliably, hence 'unknown connection'.

> $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto
> xrandr: cannot find crtc for output DVI-0

This is probably related to S-video, try something like

xrandr --output S-video --off --output DVI-0 --auto

If you think this could be handled better, please bring it up on the
xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org list.


> And this: I saw this
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11796
> This was the main reason I compiled the fresh xf86-video-ati sources:
> I thought the patch mentioned on this page would solve the scrambled
> mouse image on X: it didn't, IIRC ... 

Both the xserver and xf86-video-ati workaround hacks are needed.


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