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Tolb

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Registered: 2010-11-11

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Garbled mouse on second screen with ati

Hello,

just finished a fresh install of arch on my desktop, it has a ati radeon 5700 and i would like to use 2 screens. After a while of tinkering and looking through the wiki and the aticonfig man page i managed to get both of my screens working with the command "aticonfig --initial=dual-head resolution=0,1280x1024 resolution=1,1024x786" or something very similar to that( sorry on laptop and cant remeber exact command). I could not get it to work until i manually set the resolutions. After that i installed dwm and everything started up fine and its usable however on the second screen my mouse becomes a big garbled square of pixels, it looks fine on whichever screen is set as 0 though.

thanks in advance for any help.

Mr.Elendig

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Re: Garbled mouse on second screen with ati

Known problem, be glad it's just our pointer that it's messed up. Changing the pointer and pointer theme can help a bit.A usual catalyst is a mess.

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Tolb

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Registered: 2010-11-11

Posts: 2

Re: Garbled mouse on second screen with ati

Well, I'm configuring everything today and making it all pretty, so I'll see if changing the pointer theme fixes it.

Thanks a bunch for the help.

smika

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Registered: 2011-03-02

Posts: 25

Re: Garbled mouse on second screen with ati

Is there a solution for the pointer? I tried different themes, but no luck.

Smika