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jojopumpkin

New Member

Registered: 2009-07-27

Posts: 1

Mouse Pointer distorts over certain images or disappears.

My issue is with my mouse pointer distorting while hovering over some web images, application pop-ups and with the desktop colour picker app. It turns into a 1"x1" transparent square with verticle, chunky lines.

I have determined that compositing can make my pointer disappear in colour picker and may be the culprit on the whole.

I remember in the past this problem existed with other distros but it would be distorted regardless of what was running or what I was hovering over. There was a tweak to be made in xorg.conf and I was prepared to try that in #! but it appears that the xorg.conf is no longer the manager for this.

Any suggestions?

I am running on some old hardware...
Sony Vaio Laptop (PCG-F580)
PIII 667Mhz
192Mib Ram
13Gib HD
Dual Boot: LinuxMint XFCE CE RC1/!#Crunchbang
(This thing will not die)

!# runs quite well on it aside from this issue and terrible dvd playback. (It played DVDs very well with XP so I'm hopeful I can make that happen with #!. That is for another thread.)

Last edited by jojopumpkin (2009-07-27 16:42:57)

ThreepWood

#! Member

Registered: 2009-02-12

Posts: 68

Re: Mouse Pointer distorts over certain images or disappears.

My first guess would be changing the hardware-cursor option.
If it's on, switch it off.
If it's off, try switching it on, to see if it makes a difference...

I have an intel video card, in 'man intel' it states:

Section "Device"
 ...
 Option "SWCursor" "boolean"  # set to true || false
 ...

in the "Device" section to turn software-cursor on/off.

I found that Your Pc is equipped with a NeoMagic MagicMedia video card (correct?) with the driver 'neomagic' for linux.
You can confirm this looking at Your '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' under 'Section "Device"' > 'Driver "xy".

The 'man neomagic' states the same option as my 'intel' does.

But all together maybe it's something completely different what is causing You problems.smile.
Some stuff You JUST CAN'T make work, so finally You could end up with disabling compositing...

Last edited by ThreepWood (2009-07-28 10:59:43)

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