mouse flicker

[red devil]

Hi,
I've got a fresh Salix 13 install on a very old Compaq desktop machine and generally speaking I'm extremely impressed with this distro.

But, there's one minor thing that's bugging me - the cursor constantly flickers whenever I move the mouse.

It's a USB mouse and there's nothing in the Xfce settings menu which seems to affect it, and I wondered if anyone had any ideas.
Cheers

[thenktor]

How old is old? Perhaps you can try to use another mouse theme.

[gapan]

What graphics card do you have and what graphics driver is used?

[red devil]

'Old' as in a 900MHz AMD Duron processor - bought it very secondhand from a work colleague, I'm guessing it's close to 10 years old!
I think it has Nvidia graphics but I'm just running with the default Vesa driver which was configured during the install.

[gapan]

If it's nvidia, what you're running now should be the nv driver, not vesa. A look at the xorg logs can clear that up. But maybe you can also try a binary driver from nvidia. They do maintain a legacy version of their drivers for old models. You'll probably need to create a xorg.conf for that.

[thenktor]

I'm not sure if the nv driver or even a nvidia binary driver will work for such old Riva TNT or TNT2 graphic cards. But I'm pretty sure there is a better driver than vesa.

Please run "lspci" as root to see what graphic card you are using.

[gapan]

I have an old PC with a TNT2 here and the legacy binary driver from nvidia works fine.

[thenktor]

I have an old PC with a TNT2 here and the legacy binary driver from nvidia works fine.

And does it compile on recent kernels?

[gapan]

Yes. Nvidia still maintain those drivers.