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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: Leee on January 13, 2019, 09:12:37 AM

Title: [SOLVED] Mouse cursor is malformed
Post by: Leee on January 13, 2019, 09:12:37 AM

Wondering if anyone else has seen anything like this - my mouse cursor is stretched out to about 4 times the normal height and is mostly transparent - it's as if there are three rows of empty pixels in it for every row that actually appears.  It makes it hard to see and hard to use.

I'm using Xorg-7.7.tcz, graphics-KERNEL.tcz and jwm.tcz on an x86 system.

I first noticed the issue when trying out Core 10.x but my primary version is much older so I loaded the entire TinyCore "museum" to try to regress back to where it worked right:  It looks normal on TinyCore 4.77 and 5.4 but wrong in all of 6.4.1, 7.2, 8.2.1, 9.0 and 10.0beta1.

I haven't yet looked into what extensions may have changed versions between the various TinyCore repos

My hardware is a 2005 vintage Dell Dimension 4700 and lspci shows the following (with the video h/w on about the 3rd and 4th lines):

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tc@redblade:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL Memory Controller Hub (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82915G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 03)


Title: Re: Mouse cursor is malformed
Post by: NinjaCowboy on January 14, 2019, 08:56:42 AM

I had the exact same problem on my eeepc. I believe installing xf86-video-intel fixed it.

Title: Re: Mouse cursor is malformed
Post by: Leee on January 14, 2019, 02:57:41 PM

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I had the exact same problem on my eeepc. I believe installing xf86-video-intel fixed it.

Thank you sir.  That did the job perfectly.