Hi,
i have a Toshiba satellite 2230CDS with a trident cyber 9525 card, max res: 800x600 16bits. I have increase RAM to 160 Mb and video memory is a light 2.5Mb

I installed most versions of redhat, even fedora, on it but i always had a bad display: always a band crossing the display about one inch wide not in sync here and there... Very annoying situation!

I tough that changing the distro would do, so a loaded mandrake 9.2 on it. My display is now perfect but the mouse pointer looks like a fuzzy square. Everything else is OK, any suggestion how i can get rid of that last bug?
Thanks,

Is there a way to change the mouse pointer?
Maybe that would do it...

Try the configuration/kde/peripherals/mouse menu or go to Configure your Computer. This is how Mandrake Control Center is described.

Jon Flanders

This is so strange!!!
I just updated to Mandrake 10 on that labtop and in all the gui installation the display and the mouse pointer was perfect.
As i rebooted after the installation, i had the exact same cursor problem
This is quite anoying...

man trident (that's the driver for the cyber9525)

and look for options for SWCursor

That graphics card will do 24bpp too. I'm using a Satellite 2675DVD.
--Shade

I have the pretty much the same problem now with this laptop and Mandrake 10 but sometimes when the machine boots the mouse cursor is fine but there is an inch wide bar at the bottom that is out of sync and other times when I boot the screen looks fine but with 2 bars representing the mouse.

I have also noticed that when I connect my 17" desktop monitor to the laptop and use only that, the display works fine.

Has anyone been able to get it working properly?

I am fairly new to linux so answers may have to be dumbed up a little.

Thanks

no answer for this one i guess. I still can't figure it out.

Hi Bob,
this is how i solve a part of the problem...
Replace the actual mouse pointer by the old original pointer it will do the work....
But for some strage reason the hourglass pointer does not work it still have the problem.
At lease, the pointer will work fine.

Good luck,
Dan

Ok thanks for the info. I will give it a shot and post the results here.

Dan,

I tried using a different mouse and that solved the problem of the de-synched bars at the bottom of the screen but the mouse pointer is still shown as 2 bars.

I tried it with a USB and a PS/2 mouse neither one worked. I also noticed that when I used a live linux cd such as Knoppix I have the same problem.

I have no idea what else to try. I checked the Toshiba website and they do not offer any updated linux drivers.

Tried Mandrake 10, 8
Red Hat 9
Suse 8

Get the same fuzzy square box you describe on Mandrake, and general corrupt banding when try to use Red Hat?

Dont know what to do....

I have no idea either. I've tried Mandrak, Mandrake Move, Knoppix, RedHat and none of them work but when I plug in my desktop monitor it all works fine. So the problem lies with the display somewheres.

Hi Guys,

I had the same problem with the Tosh' 4090CDS using MDK 9.2, I have it set up in 24-bit 800x600 Mode using the Cyber 9525 (generic) driver with XFree Version 4.3

The solution is to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file (as su, backing it up first, of course ) by adding the following line in the
Section "Device" block

Option "SWCursor"


It All works fine now! - This should work with other distro's too.



Regards


Tim

Any chance you could post your XF86Config-4 from the 4090CDS?