RIVA128 (nVidia) card works, but loses cursor in emacs ...
I mail-ordered a XFree86-supported video card, yet I received a Jaton
Video-68AGP card that uses RIVA128ZX chip. To my chagrin, I spent
several hours figuring out that I have to download from nVidia a
special XF86_SVGA and do some setups.
Now this card is working, and to my surprise, the video quality is
much better than all I have used. The speed is also much better than
the Sun workstation I used in the company.
Except, to my surprise, that the emacs cursor does not show up! If the
cursor moves to blank place, it does not show the color I specified
through set-cursor-color. If the cursor moves to a character that has
been fontified, the color is right.
Cursor in regular xterm is fine. The emacs setups are the same for the
other Linux box and the Sun workstation: seems problem is with this
new X server.
First thing I want to try is to remove the hardware cursor feature,
but I could not find a way to do that. Anyone with similar experience?
Any workaround?
Thanks a lot.
Jinsong
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XFree86 Version 3.3.3.1 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: January 4 1999
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer
than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
Operating System: Linux 2.0.36 i586 [ELF]
Configured drivers:
SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0):
NV1, STG2000, RIVA128, RIVATNT, RIVATNT2, RIVATNT2, RIVATNT2,
RIVATNT2, generic
(using VT number 7)
XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(**) XKB: disabled
(**) XKB: keymap: "xfree86(us)" (overrides other XKB settings)
(**) Mouse: type: intellimouse, device: /dev/ttyS1, baudrate: 1200
(**) Mouse: buttons: 5
(**) Mouse: zaxismapping: (-)4 (+)5
(**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: "Jaton 68P AGP"
(**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: "Jaton 68P AGP"
(**) SVGA: Monitor ID: "Sun Multiscan Monitor"
(--) SVGA: Mode "640x480" needs vert refresh rate of 132.24 Hz. Deleted.
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75
dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X1
1R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
(--) SVGA: PCI: NVidia/SGS-Thomson Riva128 rev 34, Memory @ 0xe4000000, 0xe60000
00
(--) SVGA: chipset: RIVA128
(--) SVGA: videoram: 4064k
(**) SVGA: Using 16 bpp, Depth 16, Color weight: 555
(**) SVGA: Using 16 bpp, Depth 16, Color weight: 555
(--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 256.000 MHz
(**) SVGA: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 75.000
(--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768
(--) SVGA: RIVA128: Using hardware cursor
(--) SVGA: Using XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture)
(--) SVGA: XAA: Solid filled rectangles
(--) SVGA: XAA: Screen-to-screen copy
(--) SVGA: XAA: 8x8 color expand pattern fill
(--) SVGA: XAA: Using 8 128x64 areas for pixmap caching
(--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and stipples
(--) SVGA: XAA: Horizontal and vertical lines and segments
GlxExtensionInit
RIVA GLX Version = 1.0
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