heisenpointer (Fedora 17 flickering mouse pointer)

[Ian Malone]

On 21 June 2012 22:14, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:45:15 +0100
> Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> 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)
>

(oops, should have replied to group)

Thanks, on further investigation it seems coupled to a bug I have with
3.4 kernels not booting without acpi=off, so I might wait and see how
that resolves.

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