On 25 June 2012 16:05, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >> >> On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:45:15 +0100 >> Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Hi, has anyone else seen this? Since installing F17 (probably the >>> first clean fedora install I've done since single digits), I get a >>> flickering mouse pointer when the system is busy. This might be >>> related to the fact the mouse pointer hides instantly (no pause) when >>> stopped over certain window areas (list items seem most common). >>> Asking partly because I'm not sure what component to report this as a >>> bug in. >> >> >> One cause of that can be mishandling of memory bandwidth and FIFO >> settings in the graphics card. My first guess therefore would be to file >> it against whichever X server you are using and include the X trace, an >> dmesg including a boot with drm.debug=7, an lspci and an lspci -vvxxx (as >> root) >> > This may actually be in the WM, or cause by it. When I was looking for a new > WM for users, I did note this behavior on some and not others. Since I was > running on the same kernel and video driver, it seems to me that either the > WM is actually doing this in areas where it doesn't show the pointer, or > that it is loading an X driver with is causing this. Since I did see this > first in a VM, then on a live fc16 install, using totally different video > hardware, it's unlikely to be just poorly supported hardware. > > The OP might try using VNC for access, to see if that provides any useful > info. I do believe the WM is making the cursor vanish when not moving. > I thought the WM too, but it's different between different kernel versions, which suggests Alan is spot on. However I've also got a kernel bug ongoing at the minute, so probably sensible to wait until that's resolved (the kernels with the problem are being booted acpi=off, which seems unrelated, but you never know). -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
