On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Gerry Doris wrote: >>>I changed the video card in a RH 8.0 system from an old Nvidia tnt2 >>> card to an ATI Radeon 9000. kudzu noticed when I powered up and made >>> the appropriate changes for the new card. >>> >>>I can get into X windows ok but the mouse is totally erratic. Any >>> attempt to move the cursor results in it jumping around the screen. >>> It's totally unusable. >>> >>>Any ideas on how to fix this? >> >> Well, Radeon 9x00 is totally unsupported, so it is using the >> "vesa" driver by default in hopes that the video card's BIOS will >> provide working 2D only support. If it isn't working, then >> there's not much you can do about it other than look for a BIOS >> update for now, or wait until Radeon 9x00 support is made >> available. >> >> I've got Radeon 9x00 patches I've been testing, and will be >> making rpm's available soon for others to test also. >> >> No estimated time of arrival however. I'll announce it here when it is >> ready. > >I got it fixed. After trying all kinds of unnatural acts I couldn't find >anything that appeared out of order but the mouse just plain didn't work. >I finally decided to try the obvious and unplugged the mouse and rebooted. > >kuduz noticed that I no longer had a generic PS/2 mouse installed and >asked if I what the config removed...I did. After the system came up I >plugged the mouse back in and again rebooted. This time it noticed that I >had new hardware and wanted to configure a generic PS/2 mouse...I did. > >After this the mouse worked fine. I still have no idea what went wrong??? > >I noticed that the card was using the vesa driver. I was going to ask >what the support status was for accelerated drivers but you beat me to it. Ah, my mistake. I misinterpreted you meaning screen corruption for "erratic", rather than just a mouse pointer bumping around. My bad. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
