In search of a video card

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 14 May 2009, Rick C. Petty wrote:
>
> I just bought an nVidia and an ATI on newegg for under $30 each (plus
> mail-in rebates), buth PCI x16, DVI+VGA, 512MB.  I have tried them both on
> amd64 and this is what I've discovered:
>
> - The ATI is quite fast for xvideo (via mplayer) and somewhat fast on 3D,
> there seems to be some cursor-related artifacts (I've tried a number of
> cards with the same results).

If you mean flickering lines around the cursor in certain screen 
columns, try a software cursor.  The downside of that is that X 
coredumps when you switch back to it from vty:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21275

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA