On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 03:41:32PM +0200, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > 2011/10/16 Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de>:
> > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 01:41:21PM +0200, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > That probably confirms it's not a gnome issue. The cursor is an X > thing, in any case. > >> Also, did you update the driver (whatever it is) recently? > > Ah. I synched yesterday, and a massive number of packages were updated, > > among them xorg-drivers. That'll be it, I suppose. > That package is kind of a wrapper around the driver packages, which > are many. You install xorg-drivers as a dependency of xorg-server, and > depending on your VIDEO_CARDS settings in make.conf the relevant > driver packages are also pushed as dependencies into your system. My setting is 'VIDEO_CARDS="radeonhd radeon"'. I've got two there because I was never sure which one was the right one. I've got a card based on a Radeon HD4550 ;-( > > Presumably I can configure these drivers somewhere, perhaps in > > ~/.xinitrc? Is there any documentation for this? > Let us know what your driver is ... Not quite sure what you mean here. Do you mean my VIDEO_CARDS? Other than that, I've got two binary blobs in my kernel, radeon/R600_rlc.bin and radeon/R700_rlc.bin. (Again, I'm not sure which is the correct one.) > ... so we can give more concrete details. But video drivers, just like > any other thing that's part of X, can be configured at > /etc/X11/xorg.conf or, more recently, in separate files under > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/. I'll go for a monolithic config rather than a fragmented one. :-) > Some drivers (like, again, the nvidia binary one) do ship tools that > can help you configure the driver by writing to these files via a GUI > frontend. The concrete options that you can put into this files depend > on the concrete driver. For example, the man page for my driver > (xf86-video-ati) can be seen by using > # man radeon > There I can see all the available options. > If you let us know what driver are you using, then maybe someone who's > familiar with your driver can provide you with more accurate help. > -- > Jesús Guerrero Botella -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
