13 Oct
2009
13 Oct
'09
1:59 p.m.
Hello Ray and Raymond,
Thanks for your responses.
2009/10/13 Fons Adriaensen
<fons(a)kokkinizita.net>
[Ray]
There's only only problem I've not been
able to fix:
when using apps that frequently update pixmaps or
send Ximages, the mouse pointer gets corrupted with
that data. It happens with Ardour, jkmeter, japa,
and others. No idea where to start... Driver is
the 'ati' module, probably it needs some parameters.
Is this xf86-video-ati? What card is this? In case you
missed it:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#There_are_2_different_open-source_A…
Sounds like a bug to me..especially since KMS is enabled by default.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#AMD.2FAti_cards_and_KernelModeSetti…
The card is ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE],
the driver is the -ati one.
Somehow the problem seems to have solved itself. I've
been using the machine all day, rebooted a few times to
see if that would make a difference, but everyhting just
works... :-)
There's no xorg.conf, and input devices are from hal.
Errors in the log file are:
(EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
and more insteresting:
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed because of a version mismatch.
[dri] radeon kernel module version is 2.0.0 but version 1.17.0 or newer is needed.
[dri] Disabling DRI.
[Raymond]
How about running a Linux live CD/DVD on that system
with a distro
that does not display this behavior. Once you find one that works
correctly, just check the info for what is loaded, running, its Xorg.conf,
etc. and replicate it to see if the problem goes away.
Seems like an excellent idea in case the problem returns.
Overall I'm *very happy* with ArchLinux so far. Almost
everything I need is installed now, and I'm only at
2.7G disk space used. Next weekend the laptop (IBM R51)
will get the same refreshing treatment.
Ciao,
--
FA