Bug 213

Summary:	Installing the proprietary driver for ATI causes the mouse to flicker
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	corneliu dabija <corneliu.dabija>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	anssi.hannula
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakx-kbd-mouse-x11	CVE:
Status comment:

Description corneliu dabija 2011-02-27 00:39:05 CET

I installed the proprietary ATI driver through MCC for my Radeon HD 4350 and it
worked great. One small problem: the mouse flickers when it moves over certain UI components. There are also some artifacts that appear in the proximity of the mouse. Really annoying.
I have fixed this issue by removing the line 
Option "SWCursor"
in
Section "Device"
in 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
and everything works very well now. Maybe Mageia should make sure that this line does not get written in xorg.conf when installing the proprietary driver.
I also have Fedora installed on this machine and I have had exactly the same mouse issue there too.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Ahmad Samir 2011-02-27 16:53:19 CET

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
CC: (none) => anssi.hannula
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-kbd-mouse-x11

Comment 1 corneliu dabija 2011-03-18 03:46:14 CET

OK, I reinstalled Mageia alpha 2 and reinstalled the proprietary ATI driver and Option "SWCursor" does not appear anymore in xorg.conf. So I guess we can close this bug.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED