On Son, 2002-11-17 at 23:41, Mukhben Singh wrote: > Thanks to all of you for listening and helping. Now since all > seems to be well, I would be interested to know, why my machine locks up > with hardware cursor.
I can't give a definite answer but only an educated guess: with the HW cursor, Silken mouse may also be used, meaning that the cursor position is updated asynchronously, which may trigger a race condition in the driver. If this hypothesis is correct, the HW cursor shouldn't lock up if you start the server with the -nosilk option. > Also performance wise I am not experiencing any issues with soft cursor. > Can anyone of you shed some light on the pitfalls or advantages of running > a sw cursor??? The hardware cursor is smoother (especially with Silken mouse) and less flickery in general, and there are cases where the software cursor simply doesn't work correctly (see the recent discussion here about ARGB cursors). -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
