amd hd 2400

[blakblak]

Hi fellow posters

I'm having an occasional slight problem with graphics. An semi-occasional permanent artifact appears around the mouse cursor like when the mouse changes when over something - but it will be there for the session or for many sessions. Its a hd2400 ati card and I have not touched the graphic settings.

Does anyone know about this?

[gapan]

I think someone reported something similar a while back. It's probably caused by a slightly crappy video driver. Try changing to a different cursor theme as a workaround.

[blakblak]

Hi there

Try changing to a different cursor theme as a workaround.

Yeah. I did this but in the end it returns.

Its not limited to salix either slackware 13.1 has the same issue - not slack 13.0 though.

cheers

[thenktor]

Salix uses the same xorg packages as Slackware.
Could it be related to hardware cursor? You can create a xorg.conf with Option "SWCursor" in the device section:

Code: Select all

Section "Device"
   Option "SWCursor"
EndSection

[blakblak]

hi all

I installed the ati catalyst driver in the end. I did come across this though

Line Appears Below Mouse Cursor

Some users have reported seeing a line approximately 1 mouse height below the bottom edge of the cursor, which follows the mouse and appears to change color based on the image below the cursor. This has been seen to happen using fglrx without the kernel module installed (in 2D mode) and additionally on external displays or multiple X servers. To work around the problem, try disabling the DGA extension by making the following changes to your XFree86.conf or xorg.conf file. Replace (or comment-out)

Load "extmod"

with

SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_fglrx

I know this is for fglrx, but may work for the opensource driver.

Cheers