From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] NT4 white mouse pointer using Cirrus 5446 driver under 0.9.1
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 22:11:18 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e71790db0805211811t5a0c7d15r579a5ad61d0cd628@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48343153.8070901@siriusit.co.uk>
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've been using qemu 0.9.1 to run an NT4 installation as a guest, and I'm
> having a problem with the mouse pointer within the NT4 guest appearing as a
> white square.
>
> During the initial installation, NT4 uses the standard MS VGA driver which
> only supports 16 colours. Using this driver, the mouse pointer appears to
> work as normal. When I change the video driver in NT4 to use the Cirrus 5446
> driver (in order to use a 1024x768 display in 256 colours), the guest screen
> appears without any problems, but the mouse pointer always appears as a
> white square.
>
> Can anyone explain why this is happening? I can provide some debug
> information if people can point me in the right direction.
It seems that you are running out of colormap entries. Try to use 16
bits per pixel.
--
Carlos A. M. dos Santos
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-22 1:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-21 14:27 [Qemu-devel] NT4 white mouse pointer using Cirrus 5446 driver under 0.9.1 Mark Cave-Ayland
2008-05-22 1:11 ` Carlos A. M. dos Santos [this message]
2008-05-22 9:28 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
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