Re: Hotplugging: VGA to alubook 5,8 [was: Re: getting wireless and dvi out [ ... ]]
On Nov 24, 2007 10:49 AM, Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
Thanks.
Bin
>
>
> > 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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> Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
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