Choppy Mouse Cursor Motion...
This is in regards to my Ultra 80 with XVR-1000 video running OpenSolaris. The mouse and keyboard are both Type 6.
The mouse cursor motion on my machine is not smooth at all--it seems like it updates at 10 fps or something. The resolution is fine (i.e. if I move the mouse slowly enough, I can hit any pixel on the screen that I want), but the motion is just very choppy. If I move the mouse quickly in a circle, the mouse cursor ends up moving in the shape of a hexagon.
When I first got the machine, it was running Solaris 10 with two Expert 3D video cards, but the mouse cursor behaved the same. As I mentioned, I'm now running OpenSolaris with an XVR-1000 video card with the same behavior, so I don't think it's video related.
Is there any way I can set the mouse cursor report rate on this machine? Or whatever it will require to smooth this thing out? It's not even suitable for desktop applications, let along graphics.
Thanks!
# 3
I'm surprised it's like that at all. I've have a 166 MHz Pentium MMX machine that has a cheap mouse and the cursor updates as smooth as silk. How anybody would put up with it on a machine that was intended for technical graphics is beyond me... :p
In general, I notice that the 2D graphics performance is also sub-par (I'm running an XVR-1000 framebuffer, by the way). For example, if I run Firefox on the local console and scroll a large webpage--and then open a remote X session on a Linux PC and do the same thing--the remote session scrolls noticeably faster. You can see windows redraw pretty obviously on the local console whereas it's not very noticable over a remote connection.
Think it might just be a display config issue (i.e. the slow 2D graphics are tied to the poor cursor performance)?
# 5
Then perhaps my drivers aren't setup correctly. When I installed OpenSolaris b55b on this machine a few weeks ago, the card(s) I had installed were two (2) Expert3D video cards. The 2D/mouse cursor behavior on this setup was more of the same: screen redraws were obvious and the mouse cursor was just as choppy. That was part of my motivation in upgrading--I thought that perhaps the 2D performance just wasn't there on the Expert3D.
So once my XVR-1000 came in, I removed the Expert3Ds, installed the XVR-1000 (making sure that I had first installed the "proper" driver packages; what exactly those were, I don't recall). What I do recall was trying to download the XVR-1000 drivers from the Sun site and finding out that the installer wouldn't run because it was designed for Solaris 8. I know that's not very good info; I simply do not recall what I did to get this card working. All I know is that, once it was working, its performance was generally identical to the Expert3D cards.
What should I do to verify that the correct drivers are installed and running?
Thanks again for the assistance!
