SomeBloke

Hello all,

I have installed the latest Catalyst driver on my 2007 Spring installation
and the display works fine with my Radeon 9800 Pro card.

My problem is with the mouse pointer.

I use a standard PS/2 wheel mouse. The 'sensitive area' seems to be about
three inches above the pointer and when I click the mouse button any icons
on the desktop that are in that area become active instead of the area
underneath the pointer. (i hope I am explaining this right!).

As you can imagine this is downright frustrating. I have gone back to the
xorg ati driver in the meantime.

Has anyone else had this problem? What did you do to overcome it?

Kind regards,

Tim.

David W. Hodgins

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:53:43 -0500, SomeBloke <stuff@stuff.com> wrote:

> My problem is with the mouse pointer.
> Has anyone else had this problem? What did you do to overcome it?

Only other report of this, I've seen in this newsgroup was
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.o...d5070d2e9c3d6?

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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SomeBloke

David W. Hodgins wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:53:43 -0500, SomeBloke <stuff@stuff.com> wrote:
>
>> My problem is with the mouse pointer.
>> Has anyone else had this problem? What did you do to overcome it?
>
> Only other report of this, I've seen in this newsgroup was
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.o...d5070d2e9c3d6?
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins
>

Thanks for that Dave, I might persist for a few logins/logouts and see if it
clears itself.

Kind regards,

Tim.

Bit Twister

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:19:36 +0000, SomeBloke wrote:
>
> Thanks for that Dave, I might persist for a few logins/logouts and see if it
> clears itself.

Ony way I could reliably sync mouse to actual location screen was to be moving
the mouse while desktop manager was comming up.
I always boot system at runlevel 3, after login, I would enter startx,
start moving mouse, and enter. If mouse pointer did not jump to center
screen I knew to close down desktop manager, hit up arror for startx,
start moving mouse and hit return.

Glad the problem went away with 2008.

SomeBloke

Bit Twister wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:19:36 +0000, SomeBloke wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for that Dave, I might persist for a few logins/logouts and see if
>> it clears itself.
>
> Ony way I could reliably sync mouse to actual location screen was to be
> moving the mouse while desktop manager was comming up.
> I always boot system at runlevel 3, after login, I would enter startx,
> start moving mouse, and enter. If mouse pointer did not jump to center
> screen I knew to close down desktop manager, hit up arror for startx,
> start moving mouse and hit return.
>
> Glad the problem went away with 2008.


Quick update. If I reduce the screen resolution to 1152x864 instead of my
usual 1280x1024 the mouse pointer behaves itself. At 1280x1024 resolution
with the 'Use Hardware Accelerated Mouse Pointer' option turned off the
mouse pointer active area is also as normal, although small blocks of the
screen are not updated as they would be ordinarily. Very strange.

Maybe I should update to 2008.

Bit Twister

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:09:07 +0000, SomeBloke wrote:
>
> Maybe I should update to 2008.

I do not recommend an upgrade, do a clean install clean install.
I keep spare 12 gig partitions around for new installs. Old install
becomes free when I am happy with new install.

SomeBloke

Bit Twister wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:09:07 +0000, SomeBloke wrote:
>>
>> Maybe I should update to 2008.
>
> I do not recommend an upgrade, do a clean install clean install.
> I keep spare 12 gig partitions around for new installs. Old install
> becomes free when I am happy with new install.

Reinstall is my usual route. I don't think that I have had a successful
upgrade since I started with Mandrake/Mandriva version 8.0. It finally sunk
in when I lost everything after trying to upgrade from 9.2 to 10.1.

Ahh, 9.2, now there was a distro!

Tim.