Nvidia 4349 + Slack 9 + Xfree86 4.3 + imps2 mouse

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Nvidia 4349 + Slack 9 + Xfree86 4.3 + imps2 mouse

ok first all, let me congrats nvidia developers for providing such a nice ncursers interface and for trying to unify the instaler.

what i had done,
instalation of slack 9
instalation of drivers without a glitch, X setup ok, glxgears running at full speed everything nice
instalation of quake3

now the problems,
quake3 starts but theres no mouse pointer ?!
i can press the left button and its ok, i call the quakeconsole i can scrooll and its ok,
but i cant move the mouse because theres no mouse pointer, to put it more clearly theres no ARROW

what i had tryed,
running X at diferent resolutions, depths, etc,
switching mouse (physically) from diferent kinds several times,
running qk3 in full or windowing mode,
passing the in_dgamouse 0 to qk3
tweaking HW and SW cursor options for nvidia from XF86Config

what i didnt tryed yet,
downgrade nvidia drivers
try with a USB mouse

what i want,
to be able to play QUAKE3 witht my mouse

theres any inssue that im missing ? i read Quake3 linux readme i check nvidia REadme and the only reference is to dga mouse stuff.
i was moving to downgrade when after 2hours of frustation i decide to ask my google friend and he pointed me to you guys.

what i have
amd1200 512ram elsa gladiac Geforce2mx 32 etc
this maxines ran on some ocassions before suse 8, rh 7 8 and freebsd 4.5, 7, 5.0 all with the same combo of software qk3+X etc but with diferent versions(ofcourse)


side question, i notice that the agp ir running the sys agpart and not Nvidia one
Status: Enabled
Driver: AGPGART
AGP Rate: 4x
Fast Writes: Disabled
SBA: Disabled
its recommend to switch, and will i win sometihing enabling fast writes or gf2 will not handle that ? any experiences on that would be tankefull

[bwkaz]

Are you using the latest version (or at least, v1.32b) of Quake3? That point release fixed a bunch of mouse issues.

The system agpgart is the default, because it generally gets updated more often than nVidia's. nVidia's internal AGP is only there (basically) for nForce motherboards, and for where the kernel agpgart is known to be buggy. But the nVidia internal AGP support only gets changed when you upgrade your driver, not whenever you upgrade your kernel (which for me, happens much more often).

You can find out whether or not your card supports fast writes by looking at /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card. Also look at the host-bridge file in the same directory to see what your motherboard is reporting it can handle.

Both SBA and FW are off by default, because they cause stability problems. If you want to risk it (they work fine for me, but not everyone is as lucky ;)), add a line to your modules file (probably /etc/modules.conf, though I'm not positive -- Slack might use /etc/modules) reading something like either options nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1 (for modules.conf) or just put NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1 at the end of the nvidia line (in /etc/modules).

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ok i should introduce some explanation here, for my dumbass attitude since i had setup my machine before, last time in middle october and i wasnt tottaly aware of the new 1.32b, how could i? everything was running ok :D
This mouse thing only happens on this combo, others sys+os dont have this problem with 1.32

So Im a suker lammor and im fking ashame for being so stupid puting the new nvidia drivers in doubt. Tks bwkaz for clearing that out for me.




~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status: Enabled
Driver: AGPGART
AGP Rate: 4x
Fast Writes: Disabled
SBA: Disabled

~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card
Fast Writes: Supported
SBA: Not Supported
AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x
Registers: 0x1f000017:0x1f000104

~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge
Host Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133]
Fast Writes: Not Supported
SBA: Supported
AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x
Registers: 0x1f000207:0x00000104

ok,
so my old card gf2 supports fast writes but mine mobo doesnt
my mobo suports SBA but mine gf2 doenst thats fking great ;)

once more, tks bwkaz for pointing how cleaver i am.