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amd hd 2400

Posted: 30. Aug 2010, 19:55
by 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?

Re: amd hd 2400

Posted: 30. Aug 2010, 20:25
by 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.

Re: amd hd 2400

Posted: 31. Aug 2010, 15:45
by 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

Re: amd hd 2400

Posted: 31. Aug 2010, 17:02
by 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

Re: ati hd 2400

Posted: 9. Sep 2010, 12:51
by 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