[RV570] No mouse cursor

[Alpo Turunen]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati

I tested the Jaunty beta 32bit live cd and the mouse cursor was invisible. The mouse is usable but there is no cursor. The free driver was used because fglrx doesn't support the new Xorg in Jaunty. The next release of Catalyst will drop support for r300-r500 cards, so the free ati driver needs to be fixed.

[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge [1106:0336]
     Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge [1106:0336]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV570 [Radeon X1950 Pro] [1002:7280] (rev 9a)
     Subsystem: Hightech Information System Ltd. Device [1787:2204]

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi alpo-turunen,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (and maybe Xorg.0.log.old) file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

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[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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A new version of the -ati driver is now available in Karmic.

This is a significant update to -ati which brings in kernel mode-setting
(currently disabled) and scores of fixes for DRI2, EXA, etc.

I've posted the new version of this driver to the following PPA,
would you mind testing it and seeing if it resolves the bug you
reported?

  https://edge.launchpad.net/~bryceharrington/+archive/ppa/+sourcepub/709908/+listing-archive-extra

If you're not running this release of Ubuntu, you can try booting the Karmic
LiveCD and loading the PPA onto it, and then log out/in to restart X.
ISOs are available at http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/releases/

After testing Karmic, report back here whether it's still an issue or not,
and if it is please post a fresh Xorg.0.log and 'dmesg' output.

Note there could be new bugs... please file these as new reports using
the command 'ubuntu-bug xorg'.

[Alpo Turunen (alpo-turunen)]

Installing the driver from xorg-edgers ppa fixes the problem. So jaunty needs the driver updated.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

The version of -ati mentioned earlier is now included in lucid, so we can consider this bug resolved.

Unfortunately, it is not a candidate for backporting to earlier versions of Ubuntu.