Package: xserver-s3 Version: 3.1.2-5 I think this may be related to the mouse cursor problem I reported earlier. I noticed this problem shortly after sending that bug report, but didn't fully investigate it until now. (The other bug report contains information not reproduced here.)
I have an Diamond Stealth64 Video 3200 (S3-968 based) PCI video card with 2 MB VRAM running on a really crappy 1024x768 SVGA monitor that won't run legibly above 640x480. I was trying to determine if using the virtual window (server-based) feature of X was causing the mouse cursor problem, so I shut it off by using a virtual window the same size of the screen (640x480). I did not run a window manager for the purposes of isolating the bug. If I position any window such that it extends beyond the left edge of the screen (obscuring a strip of window), then approximately 8 pixels of the window (the part of the window you shouldn't be able to see because they're off the screen) appear in a strip on the right side of the screen. Pretty bizarre. To illustrate this graphically, let this little thingy represent a window where each letter is about 8 pixels wide. ABCDEFGH ABCDEFGH ABCDEFGH Not drawn to scale, you get. +------------------------+ |BCDEFGH A| |BCDEFGH A| |BCDEFGH A| | | | | | | | | | | +------------------------+ If you position the mouse over A, it still thinks it is over the main window. In other words, the mouse knows where it is supposed to be! This is what the window should look like (since I put the upper RHS of the window at 0, 0). +------------------------+ |ABCDEFGH | |ABCDEFGH | |ABCDEFGH | | | | | | | | | | | +------------------------+ Also, the gray background pattern is interrupted near the right edge in a analogous fashion to this pattern. (I'd go blind if I tried to reproduce the actual wicker pattern.) X X X X X X X XX X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X XX X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X XX X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X XX X X X X X X X X X X X X X |------| 8 pixels (as best as I can tell)