[H-GEN] X mouse problems.

Rob Kearey mammal at optushome.com.au
Sun May 4 00:06:12 EDT 2003


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Three Blokes wrote:

> Quick question about X, hopefully someone here knows more about it that can
> help me, I'm running xfree 4.3 (Redhat 9).  I used to run 4.2 with the ATI
> drivers off their webpage, but when I updated to 4.3 those drivers stopped
> working, so after some searching I found unreleased ATI drivers for 4.3,
> they work very nicely, 3d acceleration and all,

What sort of card is it? If it's an R200 based card then XF86 now 
provides hardware T&L rendering, &c. Why not use that?

> and the only problem I have
> had with them is a small one, but annoying: Whenever I move the mouse with
> the left button down a box is drawn around my mouse cursor and everything
> underneath gets totally corrupted,

Sounds like you've come across the reasons it's 'unreleased'.

BTW, you seem to have lost your full stops, and are making do with 
commas. My comiserations.

>    Joe

-- 
Rob K


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