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AoL

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Registered: 2012-05-31

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[SOLVED] Invisible cursor in Cinnamon - ATI Catalyst drivers

I couldn't find anything on google, so I was wondering if you guys could help me?

After installing the catalyst drivers I installed cinnamon via the AUR.
Cinnamon loads fine, however, once the panel (and the desktop overall) loads, the mouse cursor flickers and becomes invisble. I managed to get to the advanced settings section of the themes menu and changed my cursor to my cursor theme (vanilla-dmz), nothing, still invisible. The cursor is functional though, I have no problem clicking and highlighting things, I just can't see where I'm going.

The cursor works fine out of the box in XFCE4, X and GDM, but not in Cinnamon. It works in Gnome 3 (although gnome looks incredibly bad, probably due to the fact that I don't have half the packages for it).

I have sucessfully used Cinnamon in the past with a visible and functional cursor with open radeon drivers, I suspect that this is a problem with ATI Catalyst, but It could also be a Cinnamon bug.

Does anyone know what has caused this issue?

EDIT: Oops, just realised I posted this the the wrong section, if a mod could move it into Applications and Desktop Environment section that would be great.

Last edited by AoL (2012-06-01 13:24:07)

adam777

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Registered: 2012-05-28

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Re: [SOLVED] Invisible cursor in Cinnamon - ATI Catalyst drivers

Not much of a help, but I remember that when I trien Linux Mint about a month ago, cinnamon was practically unusable with the proprietary ATI drivers.
Lots of graphics corruptions etc.

DSpider

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Re: [SOLVED] Invisible cursor in Cinnamon - ATI Catalyst drivers

Well, I remember that ATI drivers even had cursor problems on Windows, let alone Linux! Nvidia had some too, but they weren't as prominent or dragging on between updates and with developers ignoring a shitload of complaints on their forums. Try disabling hardware cursors: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X1 … nformation

Also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Catalyst

Compared to the open source driver, Catalyst performs worse in 2D graphics, but has a better support for 3D rendering.

So the question is, do you really wanna play games on Linux? Dual booting is really not that difficult, you know.

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AoL

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Registered: 2012-05-31

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Invisible cursor in Cinnamon - ATI Catalyst drivers

Well, I remember that ATI drivers even had cursor problems on Windows, let alone Linux! Nvidia had some too, but they weren't as prominent or dragging on between updates and with developers ignoring a shitload of complaints on their forums. Try disabling hardware cursors: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X1 … nformation

Also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Catalyst

Compared to the open source driver, Catalyst performs worse in 2D graphics, but has a better support for 3D rendering.

So the question is, do you really wanna play games on Linux? Dual booting is really not that difficult, you know.

Thanks you yet again, it's working.
I do want to play games on Linux, It's an inconvienient hassle to boot another OS whenever I need to use one or two applications, not to mention if I'm in Arch, I won't get any notifications from my steam friends without wine.

Last edited by AoL (2012-06-01 13:23:52)