F20: mouse cursor has 1" x 1/4" rectangle attached

[sean darcy]

On 09/12/2014 01:50 PM, poma wrote:
> On 12.09.2014 17:26, sean darcy wrote:
>> On 09/09/2014 11:47 AM, poma wrote:
>>> On 09.09.2014 17:14, sean darcy wrote:
>>>> On 09/09/2014 11:05 AM, poma wrote:
>>>>> On 09.09.2014 16:13, sean darcy wrote:
>>>>>> On an acer latop with XFCE, the mouse cursor is trailed by a rectangle
>>>>>> about 1/2" below and offset to the right.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In Settings -> Mouse and Touchpad -> Themes I can change the size of
>>>>>> cursor, which doesn't affect the size of the rectangle.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How do I get rid of this rectangle?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> sean
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> $ lspci -knn | grep -A3 VGA
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> poma
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> lspci -knn | grep -A3 VGA
>>>> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
>>>> [AMD/ATI] Kaveri [Radeon R5 Graphics] [1002:1318]
>>>> 	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0864]
>>>> 	Kernel driver in use: radeon
>>>> 	Kernel modules: radeon
>>>>
>>>> I've installed and switched to a new cursor theme. Rectangle still there.
>>>>
>>>> sean
>>>>
>>>
>>> http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2014-September/026621.html
>>>
>>> Rawhide/Fedora 22
>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=7555517
>>> https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/work/tasks/5517/7555517/Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-rawhide-20140909.iso
>>>
>>> https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/5517/7555517/livecd.log
>>>
>>> kernel-3.17.0-0.rc4.git0.1.fc22.x86_64
>>> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.16.0-7.fc22.x86_64
>>> xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.4.0-3.fc22.x86_64
>>> mesa-dri-drivers-10.4-0.devel.4.1f184bc.fc22.x86_64
>>> libdrm-2.4.56-2.fc22.x86_64
>>>
>>> ~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> Fedora 20
>>> kernel-3.16.2-200.fc20.x86_64
>>> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.14.4-11.fc20.x86_64
>>> xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.2.0-3.20131101git3b38701.fc20.x86_64
>>> mesa-dri-drivers-10.1.5-1.20140607.fc20.x86_64
>>> libdrm-2.4.54-1.fc20.x86_64
>>>
>>>
>>> poma
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> For anyone who has the kaveri chipset, here's how I made it work:
>>
>> 1. for kernel 3.16.2, F20 is in koji.
>>
>> 2. librm - add the kaveri pciids, and rebuild. The libdrm in koji does
>> not have the pciid.
>>
>> 3. mesa - same as libdrm
>>
>> 4. xorg-x11-drv-ati - get xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.4.0-3.fc22.x86_64 from
>> koji. This does not have the new pciids. Get xf86-video-ati from git.  Copy:
>> src/ati_pciids_gen.h
>> 		
>> src/pcidb/ati_pciids.csv	
>> 		
>> src/radeon_chipinfo_gen.h	
>> 		
>> src/radeon_chipset_gen.h
>> 		
>> src/radeon_pci_chipset_gen.h
>>
>> src/radeon_pci_device_match_gen.h
>>
>> to the rpm source. Simply patching didn't work for some reason.  Rebuild
>> the rpm for f20, but disable glamor.
>>
>> sean
>>
>
> Did you send those patches upstream and downstream?
>
>
> poma
>
>
I used the upstream patches from 
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2014-September/026621.html .

sean