I have a peculiar problem that just started on my Fedora 9 system where my mouse pointer will suddenly "grow hair"; it will get a lot of random black pixels surrounding the pointer graphic (probably contained within a 20x20 pixel area). Whenever the pointer graphic is changed by an application (like crossing over a scrollbar) the random pattern of attached hair will also change. More annoyingly, when this happens, the pointer appears to have lost track of the screen boundaries. You can move it in one direction and it will hit some invisible random wall, as if it was at the edge of the screen even though its not. Sometimes it will jump/warp to a different part of the screen and the location of these invisible walls will randomly change. This makes using applications or even accessing menus or close buttons very challenging. When I can manage to close down a lot of applications, the problem will often clear up; which makes me think it may be more likely during a low memory condition. Although I never do actually run out of free memory, and I have plenty of swap. This is a 32-bit kernel, version 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 The video card shows up in a system scan as: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] Chipset: "ATI Radeon 9600 AS (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x4153) The vendor's name on the box was: Diamond ATI Stealth X1050 (AGP 256MB) The Xorg driver chosen for this was: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so which is from package xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-19.fc9.i386 I've been running for a long time with an xorg.conf which turns off the DRI option to work around lockup problems with this particular card. But this pointer hair is a new problem. Option "DRI" "off" My screen is 1440 x 900 x 24, monitor is DELL E198WFP Any ideas? -- Deron Meranda -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
