Re: [9fans] cursor problems with GeForce4 [was: South bridge not found]

[andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov>]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote:

>
> I forgot to write to this list...
>
> >One of the problem is that the shape of cursor, which is strange and difficult
>
> The problem is the left-half and right-half of the cursor are interchanged
> each other, that is right-half and then left-half of the cursor.   I don't know
> how to solve this problem, of course, we can change the cursor shape to
> adujust just for this card...
>

I had the same problem when trying to modify the rio cursors for 9wm (the unix
rio/8.5 clone). though, in my case, the problem had nothing to do with the hardware.

after some quite unscientific play on my part, i got the correct cursor to show in
9wm by reversing each pair in the cursor struct definition:

% cat << _END_ | awk '{print $2 $1 $4 $3 $6 $5 $8 $7}'
0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF,
     0xFF, 0xFF, 0x1F, 0xF8, 0x1F, 0xF8, 0x1F, 0xF8,
     0x1F, 0xF8, 0x1F, 0xF8, 0x1F, 0xF8, 0xFF, 0xFF,
     0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF

_END_
%

and then doing the same for the mask (the values are in data.h and screen.h)...

I know that's not the proper way of solving the problem, but when one cannot think one has to
resolve to other methods :)

andrey