#597692 kde-full: Strange mouse cursor behaviour.

Package:
xserver-xorg-video-radeon
Source:
xserver-xorg-video-ati
Description:
X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display driver
Submitter:
Denis Gottardello
Date:
2019-11-21 17:21:12 UTC
Severity:
normal
#597692#5
Date:
2010-09-22 09:58:08 UTC
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I don't know if here is the right place to describe this strange behaviour.
Sometimes the mouse cursor appears like a vertical line tall 2 cm, large 0,2 cm. Sometimes this behavior resolves by itself, sometimes I must to restart kde.
This behaviour appears also in another pc.

My video card is
->02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV535 [Radeon X1650 Series] (rev 9e)<-
Now I'm using the debian ati video cart.
#597692#12
Date:
2010-09-27 11:36:32 UTC
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tags 597692 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi,

you reported http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597692 some time
ago:

Is the other PC you experience this behaviour on also equipped with an ATI
card? If yes, this points to an issue in the ati driver.

Can you also please attach the output of
/usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg/script 3>&1

Thanks,
Eckhart
#597692#15
Date:
2010-09-27 11:36:32 UTC
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tags 597692 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi,

you reported http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597692 some time
ago:

Is the other PC you experience this behaviour on also equipped with an ATI
card? If yes, this points to an issue in the ati driver.

Can you also please attach the output of
/usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg/script 3>&1

Thanks,
Eckhart
#597692#20
Date:
2010-09-27 13:52:37 UTC
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Yes, in the other pc there is a x300 ati video card.
#597692#25
Date:
2010-09-28 23:47:33 UTC
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reassign 597692 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
tags 597692 - moreinfo
thanks

Reassigning as suggested on #debian-x.
#597692#36
Date:
2010-11-08 13:37:55 UTC
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I have almost exactly the same problem, except my cursor is
a 100×100 pixel square with rainbow sprinkles (random dots).

I have three heads, all connected to RV710 cards. At the moment, the
cursor is only broken on heads 0 and 1, but if I move to head 2, the
arrow appears as it should — and if I move back, the cursor changes
again.

At other times, this only happens on one head.

Restarting X does not help. Neither did the upgrade to 1.9 and the
new Radeon driver 6.13.2.

Turning SWcursor on made the issue even worse as the cursor now
leaves trails.

Thanks,
#597692#41
Date:
2011-02-16 14:45:23 UTC
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Hi,

I have also this problem. On the main screen it is 2 cm long and 0.5
wide (one vertical line), on the second monitor it is 2cm long and 1cm
wide block (horizontal lines). It appears after some time.

Regards,
Lars Eric
#597692#46
Date:
2011-02-21 19:38:54 UTC
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Hi,

martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> (08/11/2010):

please upgrade your kernel to 2.6.37-1-$arch, as well as upgrade to
the latest driver and server versions in sid, and report your own
bug. Better yet, check what happens with those in experimental, and
file it upstream directly:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/ component xorg, product Driver/Radeon

KiBi.
#597692#51
Date:
2011-02-21 19:40:49 UTC
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Hi Denis,

Denis Gottardello <sviluppo.software@sintesisrl.net> (22/09/2010):
xserver-xorg-core, and your video driver from sid.

Then follow-up following those instructions:
http://pkg-xorg.alioth.debian.org/howto/report-bugs.html

Thanks!

KiBi.
#597692#56
Date:
2011-02-22 07:15:47 UTC
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also sprach Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> [2011.02.21.2038 +0100]:

I cannot upgrade quite yet due to #612298 :(
#597692#67
Date:
2012-02-27 19:29:12 UTC
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I faced this issue twice after running OpenGL games.

I can't remember what triggered it the first time but yesterday I was playing trigger-rally
I quit the game and faced the broken cursor.

I'm attaching a picture of how it looks like when hovering a link.
Normally it's thinner than that.

I'm on xfce (xfwm4 + compositing enabled).

The only solution is to reboot. Enabling software cursor and restarting X won't help. The
mouse cursor will be in a better shape but will still suffer from small corruptions.


And sorry for the awful mess in my xorg.conf. I've had 3
laptops and I always copy my installation :-)
#597692#72
Date:
2012-02-27 20:43:22 UTC
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Seems enabling swcursor and restarting X solves it. The corruption was
because of my X cursor theme.
#597692#77
Date:
2012-07-04 10:47:22 UTC
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I had the same issue from time to time.
In these days, the cursor had the strange behavior reported above,
when I passed from one monitor to another (I have a dual monitor
configuration using span mode).

Adding SWcursor option in xorg.conf seems to have solved the problem.

Alberto Quattrini Li
#597692#82
Date:
2012-07-04 19:37:08 UTC
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According to your config and log you're using the closed fglrx driver,
not radeon.

Cheers,
Julien
#597692#87
Date:
2012-07-04 20:00:15 UTC
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Yes, indeed.
Sorry but I recently switched to fglrx. However, I had that behavior also
with radeon. :-)

Alberto
Sent from my smartphone
#597692#92
Date:
2012-09-23 11:00:28 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

Hi

I have in the last week or so been seeing this problem and the resolution has
been to reboot the machine.

Any suggestions.

Ben
#597692#97
Date:
2012-09-24 10:17:08 UTC
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Can you try a newer kernel, one based on upstream version 3.5.1 or at
least 3.2.25 or newer? Those versions have a fix that might help.