Mouse cursor invisible in VESA modes?

Nicolas Blais nb_root at videotron.ca
Sat Sep 17 07:27:45 PDT 2005


On September 17, 2005 09:56 am, Andrew Pogrebennyk wrote:
> Good day!
> My question deals with VESA-patch, which was commited some time ago
> into CURRENT. I dont' know if it is a known bug or a bad luck of mine
> so I ask... Yet before I've tested VESA-patch with 5.3-RELEASE and
> 5.4-RELEASE, and currently I'm using 6.0-BETA4. And everytime I've got
> one the same problem - the mouse cursor disappears when using
> resolutions higher than VESA_800x600. In another words, the mouse still
> works but the cursor is invisible. Also, as far as I remember, I'd been
> encountering some error messages from vidcontrol when using earlier
> versions of this patch, but now they seem to be fixed. However, the
> whole problem still remains.
>
> My system is x86 PC, MB is ASUS A7V8X-X (based on VIA KT400 chipset),
> videocard is ATI Radeon 9600 128MB and mouse is Microsoft IntelliMouse
> Optical 1.1A, plugged into USB (but PS/2 tried as well). Kernel
> contains ony the following console-related stuff:
> options     VESA
> options     SC_PIXEL_MODE
> options     SC_MOUSE_CHAR=0x3
> options     SC_HISTORY_SIZE=1200
> I dont' know what else details about my system I need to tell in such
> situation, so excuse me if I missed something important.
> 							Regards. Andrew

Same here, but my mouse reappears when I try any resolution in 16-bit depth.  

For example :
vidcontrol @ MODE_280 is 1024x768 at 24bpp (no mouse) while MODE_279 is 
1024x768 at 16bpp works.

Nicolas.
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