Cursor disappears in fullscreen mode

nornagon · Post by **nornagon** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:11 am

Hi all. I'm running Debian linux; the newly-released sarge. I have zsnes 1.42, and my kernel is one I compiled myself, version 2.6.8.

Zsnes works fine for most things -- it emulates fine in fullscreen mode, with the only nuance being that I cannot use the cursor. It simply disappears from sight.

When I switch to any fullscreen mode (I haven't actually tested that the same thing happens on every mode), the cursor will sometimes be visible until I move it. If there is no menu open, I have to hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 and killall zsnes, which seems to restart X.

I guess I can live without a cursor (or fullscreen), but I'd be much obliged if someone could tell me what is going on. As far as I know, the cursor did not disappear when I was using the debian stock kernel 2.6.8-2-386.

Thanks, zsnes, for being a really awesome emulator. ^^

Cyrus · Post by **Cyrus** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:56 am

I know next to nothing about linux... but did you use any sort of compression after you compiled it?

nornagon · Post by **nornagon** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:53 am

Compression on what? The executable?

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:10 pm

I think he's talking about 'strip' or UPX but your answer implies no. Did you try updating your graphics drivers?

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:30 pm

FireKnight wrote:I know next to nothing about linux

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Can you try reverting to the stock kernel?

nornagon · Post by **nornagon** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 1:48 am

I could, I guess. But I'd rather not.

My graphics drivers are the same in this kernel as they were in the stock kernel -- the fglrx drivers for my ATI Radeon 9600. I don't think that has anything to do with the cursor, though, as zsnes is SDL and the way SDL handles custom cursors has nothing to do with graphics drivers.

What I can think of is that maybe SDL is reporting the mouse position incorrectly.

I'll have a look through the code and try to work out what's going on. I wish I knew how to use gdb...

[edit] I looked through linux/sdllink.c and linux/sw_draw.c and linux/gl_draw.c and I couldn't find the source of the problem... I also looked at gui/guimouse.asm, but I don't know assembler so