No mouse with vidcontrol to 1024x768

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Nicolas Blais wrote:

> When I try to switch console resolution to any 24-bit color depth, such as
> vidcontrol -m on MODE_280, it switches perfectly to a beautiful shell and
> nice fonts but I loose my mouse cursor. I can still select text (guessing
> from where my mouse used to be) and passing my mouse over text distorts it a
> bit. If I switch to 16-bit depth my mouse appears and everything is fine.
> This is all resolutions.
>
> MODE_280 is 1024x768 at 24bpp while MODE_279 is 1024x768 at 16bpp.
>
> I have a :
> drm0: <ATI Radeon AS 9600 AS> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem
> 0xe8000000-0xefffffff,0xfbe00000-0xfbe0ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
>
> With enough power to draw a cursor :)

I am seeing the same behavior with:

none5 at pci8:12:0:        class=0x030000 card=0x34398086 chip=0x47521002 
rev=0x27 hdr=0x00
     vendor   = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
     device   = 'Rage XL PCI'
     class    = display
     subclass = VGA

FreeBSD bling.properkernel.com 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #2: Mon Jul  4 02:45:50 EDT 2005     root at bling.properkernel.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BLING  i386

For some weird reason, when using a mode that does draw the cursor, it 
doesn't honor my request to use a block cursor. My custom kernel is a 
dumbed down version of generic with the following:

options         SC_ALT_MOUSE_IMAGE
options         SC_CUT_SPACES2TABS
options         SC_HISTORY_SIZE=4096
options         SC_PIXEL_MODE
options         VESA
options         VGA_WIDTH90

Cheers,
Andy

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