Bug#439237: xserver-xorg-input-mouse: the mouse disappear when it goes on the 10cm of the left vertical track of the screen

[Daniel <daniel@littlesaigon.be>]

Brice Goglin wrote:
> reassign 439237 xserver-xorg-video-sis
> found 439237 1:0.9.3-2
> thank you
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> daniel wrote:
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>> with a screen samsung 1680x1050
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> Is the problem different with other monitors?
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this problem occur with the new screen i set up and when i changed the
resolution from 1280x1024 to 1680x1050
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>> when I move the mouse on the 10cm left vertical edge of the screen,
>> it disappear. and when the mouse arrives has 1cm higher edge (over all its length),
>> it changes to become a small line vertical and remains has 1cm of this edge.
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> This is likely related to your X driver since it is responsible for
> displaying the cursor.
>
> Does adding
>     Option "SWCursor" "yes"
> to the device section help?
>   
yes now all is ok
tank you
> When did the problem start happening? Do you know which packages you
> upgraded at this time? /var/log/dpkg.log or /var/log/aptitude might help
> you remember.
>
>   
i just set up a new wide screen 20" and changed the resolution from
1280x1024 to 1680x1050
> According to upstream, the xgi driver could be better than the sis one
> for this hardware. But we didn't package xgi for Debian yet. Is there a
> chance you try building xgi manually? There's a how-to on
> http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/10936.html, you'll have to replace intel
> with xgi there. Once it is installed, change the driver from sis to xgi
> in xorg.conf and restart X. Let me know if you need more help.
>
> Brice
>
>   
the command git is not correct using gitfm in the how-to
and when i used gitfm i have the error
"gitfm clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-xgi

GNU Interactive Tools 4.3.20 (i686-pc-linux-gnu), 15:55:59 May 16 2007
GIT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
Copyright (C) 1993-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Tudor Hulubei and Andrei Pitis, Bucharest, Romania

gitfm: fatal error: `chdir' failed: permission denied."

wat i can do ?
thank you daniel