You're a genius. Gnome 2.20 had somehow switched out of the compositing cursor, which was probaly why I had suddenly noticed the change. When I changed to an argb compositing one - problem solved. I agere with what you are saying about not holding back the RandR functionality. Sometimes there is no elegant way forward in these situations. <br><br>With best wishes,<br><br>Adam<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 12, 2008 11:53 AM, Michel Dänzer <<a href="mailto:daenzer@debian.org">daenzer@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br>On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 20:10 +0000, Adam Bartley wrote:<br>> Ok, I can see why that is good coding practice on one level, but on<br>> the other hand a piece of code has been out in January 2008 which had <br>> been shown to be faulty months before in 2007. Maybe it should have<br>> been held out of circulation until the authors can come up with a<br>> solution?<br><br></div>Ideally; the problem being that when RandR 1.2 support was added to<br>xserver 1.3, only xf86-video-intel had the corresponding driver support,<br>and that driver can physically only work on little endian platforms. The<br>issue was only discovered when RandR 1.2 support was added to the <br>xf86-video-ati radeon driver and working on PowerMacs, and now it would<br>be harsh to rip out the server support again for a minority.<br><br>Note that only legacy two-colour cursors are affected, not modern 32 bit<br> ARGB cursors.<br><br>Also, I think the old driver specific conversion code that was used<br>before RandR 1.2 could still work now; reinstating that would be a<br>relatively simple task for someone who is determined about fixing this <br>issue.<br><font color="#888888"><br><br>--<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Earthling Michel Dänzer           |          <a href="http://tungstengraphics.com" target="_blank">http://tungstengraphics.com</a> <br>Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>