--- Mark Cass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > alex, > > the change option 2 seems to be working for the random noise cursor. > the > problem with the shimmer was related to refresh rate. when i turned > down the > refresh rate the shimmer went away. must be this video card, my old > nvidia > card had no problem with the old refresh rate.
Hmmm... how to deal with that cob...I'll look into that this weekend. > > one other thing. i downloaded the latest code yesterday and built it. > i am > now noticing that the agp mode is only 1X. it used to be 4X. could > you or > somebody else point me in the right direction? Yeah I added agpmode and agpsize options a few days again. the driver defaults to 1x. just add: Option "AGPMode" "4" to you config. you can also adjust the amount of AGP memory with the AGPSize option. right now it defaults to 16 MB. Alex > > thanks, > mark > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alex Deucher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mark Cass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 9:37 AM > Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] savage : strange cursor problems > > > > > > --- Mark Cass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > dri-devel, > > > > > > i am using the dri tree build (Mesa/xc - no branch) of all > drivers > > > (2d and 3d) on xfree86 version 4.3.0. my video card is a 32MB > savage > > > 4 pro. X is configured to use the savage drivers. > > > > > > the problems i am noticing concern the mouse/cursor. at all times > the > > > cursor seems to be shimmering. for example when the arrow cursor > is > > > displayed, the outline of the arrow looks like its > moving/crawling. > > > the second problem is that the cursor sometimes displays a large > > > square (5x the size of the arrow cursor) of random noise. the > cursor > > > returns to normal when the mouse is dragged over a different > window. > > > this happens maybe once every 10 minutes. > > > > > > has anyone else seen this? felix said that alex had mentioned > > > something about the problem at one point. > > > > At some point in the savage4 line, the cob index bitfield of the > cob > > register changed. you card may be affected. There are two things > you > > can try: > > 1. try the "disableCOB" option, however this will impact > performance. > > 2. change psav->cobIndex from 7 to 2 in savage_driver.c > > if 2 fixes it it's gonna be tough to figure out when savage4s need > a > > cobIndex of 7 and which need 2. perhaps we can figure out the > revision > > and add that and check against it. we could also add a cobIndex > > override config option. > > > > Alex > > > > > > > > mark > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. > > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO > of > > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > > > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > Dri-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > -- > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
