From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JyzL6-0004lR-BX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2008 21:11:28 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JyzL5-0004lC-5Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2008 21:11:28 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38420 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JyzL5-0004l9-1m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2008 21:11:27 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]:26984) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JyzL4-00046K-QN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2008 21:11:26 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j40so289001ugd.4 for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 18:11:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 22:11:18 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] NT4 white mouse pointer using Cirrus 5446 driver under 0.9.1 In-Reply-To: <48343153.8070901@siriusit.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48343153.8070901@siriusit.co.uk> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland 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