Request for testers to confirm nv driver mouse cursor bug

[Mike A. Harris]

If you are using Nvidia video hardware with FC5test3 or later, and the
mouse cursor is invisible, or has any visible mouse pointer corruption,
please add a comment to the following bug report to confirm you are
having the same problem, and attach your X server log file as an
uncompressed file attachment:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182517

2 chips have been identified as experiencing this problem so far, so
once people have updated the report with any other chips that have
the problem, I am going to disable hardware cursors on those chips
by default so that things work out of the box in FC5 for as many
nv users as possible.

Once the upstream nv driver maintainer fixes the bugs in the driver,
we'll update and drop the workaround.  For those who want to track
the issue in X.Org, the upstream bug is:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3009

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Mike A. Harris,
Systems Engineer, X11 Development team,
Red Hat Canada, Ltd.

[Jonathan Berry]

On 2/25/06, Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  If you are using Nvidia video hardware with FC5test3 or later, and
> the
>  mouse cursor is invisible, or has any visible mouse pointer corruption,
>  please add a comment to the following bug report to confirm you are
>  having the same problem, and attach your X server log file as an
>  uncompressed file attachment:
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182517
>
>  2 chips have been identified as experiencing this problem so far, so
>  once people have updated the report with any other chips that have
>  the problem, I am going to disable hardware cursors on those chips
>  by default so that things work out of the box in FC5 for as many
>  nv users as possible. 
I do *not* see any mouse pointer corruption on my system.  x86_64 with
a 6600 GT.  From lspci:
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce
6600 GT] (rev a2)

The very end tip of the arrow does seem to have one pixel that seems
to become about the opposite color of whatever is underneath it;
mostly only noticable when the pointer is on a white background.  I
don't think that is what you are referring to, though : ).

Jonathan

[Mike A. Harris]

Jonathan Berry wrote:
>  On 2/25/06, Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  
> >If you are using Nvidia video hardware with FC5test3 or later, and the
> >mouse cursor is invisible, or has any visible mouse pointer corruption,
> >please add a comment to the following bug report to confirm you are
> >having the same problem, and attach your X server log file as an
> >uncompressed file attachment:
> >
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182517
> >
> >2 chips have been identified as experiencing this problem so far, so
> >once people have updated the report with any other chips that have
> >the problem, I am going to disable hardware cursors on those chips
> >by default so that things work out of the box in FC5 for as many
> >nv users as possible.
>  
>  
>  I do *not* see any mouse pointer corruption on my system.  x86_64 with
>  a 6600 GT.  From lspci:
>  05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce
>  6600 GT] (rev a2) 
That's not a PCI ID, but a textual description of a video card.
PCI ID is 2 32bit hex numbers of the form VENDOR:DEVICE

lspci -vn

It's the numerical value that matters from a programmatical
standpoint.  If it turns out 2 people have the same device
ID, but one has no cursor, and the other works fine, that would
be useful information to add to the X.Org bug reprot for the
driver maintainer though.

HTH


-- 
Mike A. Harris  *  Open Source Advocate  *  http://mharris.ca
                       Proud Canadian.

[Dariusz J. Garbowski]

On 02/26/2006 08:42 AM, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>  Jonathan Berry wrote:
> > On 2/25/06, Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
> >
> >> If you are using Nvidia video hardware with FC5test3 or later, and the
> >> mouse cursor is invisible, or has any visible mouse pointer corruption,
> >> please add a comment to the following bug report to confirm you are
> >> having the same problem, and attach your X server log file as an
> >> uncompressed file attachment:
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182517
> >>
> >> 2 chips have been identified as experiencing this problem so far, so
> >> once people have updated the report with any other chips that have
> >> the problem, I am going to disable hardware cursors on those chips
> >> by default so that things work out of the box in FC5 for as many
> >> nv users as possible.
> >
> >
> > I do *not* see any mouse pointer corruption on my system.  x86_64 with
> > a 6600 GT.  From lspci:
> > 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce
> > 6600 GT] (rev a2)
>  
>  That's not a PCI ID, but a textual description of a video card.
>  PCI ID is 2 32bit hex numbers of the form VENDOR:DEVICE
>  
>  lspci -vn
>  
>  It's the numerical value that matters from a programmatical
>  standpoint.  If it turns out 2 people have the same device
>  ID, but one has no cursor, and the other works fine, that would
>  be useful information to add to the X.Org bug reprot for the
>  driver maintainer though. 
My cursor seems fine too (except for the point described by Jonathan).
Added my info and lspci -vn to the bug.

Dariusz

		
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[Jonathan Berry]

On 2/26/06, Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)mharris.ca&gt; wrote:
>  Jonathan Berry wrote:
>  > On 2/25/06, Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  >
>  >>If you are using Nvidia video hardware with FC5test3 or later, and the
>  >>mouse cursor is invisible, or has any visible mouse pointer corruption,
>  >>please add a comment to the following bug report to confirm you are
>  >>having the same problem, and attach your X server log file as an
>  >>uncompressed file attachment:
>  >>
>  >>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182517
>  >>
>  >>2 chips have been identified as experiencing this problem so far, so
>  >>once people have updated the report with any other chips that have
>  >>the problem, I am going to disable hardware cursors on those chips
>  >>by default so that things work out of the box in FC5 for as many
>  >>nv users as possible.
>  >
>  >
>  > I do *not* see any mouse pointer corruption on my system.  x86_64 with
>  > a 6600 GT.  From lspci:
>  > 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce
>  > 6600 GT] (rev a2)
>
>  That's not a PCI ID, but a textual description of a video card.
>  PCI ID is 2 32bit hex numbers of the form VENDOR:DEVICE
>
>  lspci -vn
>
>  It's the numerical value that matters from a programmatical
>  standpoint.  If it turns out 2 people have the same device
>  ID, but one has no cursor, and the other works fine, that would
>  be useful information to add to the X.Org bug reprot for the
>  driver maintainer though. 
Ahh, sorry.  Here is the info from lspci -vn (looks like the PCI ID is
two 16-bit numbers ; ) ):
05:00.0 0300: 10de:0140 (rev a2)
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 12
        Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Memory at ec000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at ed000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [68] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+
Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting

Would you like me to add this to the RedHat bugzilla, the Xorg
bugzilla, or both?  Looks like most people have been adding to the RH
one.

Jonathan