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

poma pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 01:32:17 UTC 2014


On 14.09.2014 17:28, sean darcy wrote:
> 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
> 

You mean on this one?
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2014-September/026623.html


poma




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