Bug#502030: xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion: several problems (mouse,screen) after upgrading to lenny
Antos Andras wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
> Version: 1:1.6.0-1
> Severity: important
>
> This might be a grave bug and may be related to bug#499018. I am not
> sure at
> all that this is a bug of xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion. If not,
> perhaps
> it might be assigned to 'upgrade-reports'.
>
> After upgrading from etch to lenny, the mouse pointer has strange
> duplication shadows (sometimes having flag shape) and, more
> annoyingly, it is effective focus is not under the pointer but above
> it. The distance
> between the pointer and its effective focus changes depending on the row
> position of the screen, it is zero at the top of the screen.
> Also there are slant horizontal lines at the bottom of the screen. I
> attached a screendump.
> Also when running X, Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] switches to an empty dark display
> without getty's login prompt. I can switch back by Alt-F7. (Booting
> without X, using e.g. recovery mode, I see the login prompt correctly.)
>
> The box is a noname laptop (Systematix-Mobile) with Silicon Motion VGA.
I just uploaded siliconmotion driver 1.7.0 into experimental. It brings
a lot of new features. Could you try it?
Brice
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