On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:06:27 +0100, Jens Grivolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have a problem on my Acer TM210 laptop with integrated ALi (Trident) > graphics (sorry, I don't have the exact name, it doesn't seem to show > anywhere) on XFree86 4.2.1.1, but also on older versions. > > Regularly, after some time, the mouse pointer will shift and then be > shown around 100 pixels to the right of the actual position (i.e. it > will stop before reaching the left screen border and mouse clicks are > to the left of the shown pointer position). It will sometimes switch > back after a few hours. > > Has anybody experienced those problems, and is there a fix? Yes. From a post of mine dated 16th February 2002 in Debian user. ******************************************************************** "I think you are the victim of the following bug, since your card is a trident. http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_trident_mouse.html Try putting Option "sw_cursor" in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 in the video card section." ******************************************************************** Somebody really ought to add this to the X documentation. It has been reported at least once to the Debian bug tracking system. Faheem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
