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

[sean darcy <seandarcy2@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

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