Flickering pointer with NVIDIA drivers

barry · Apprentice Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 170 Location: UK

I've just upgraded to an nvidia 6600GT AGP card. The pointer now flickers horribly when using the nvidia drivers (it's particularly evident in mozilla/firefox). If I switch back to the xorg drivers, the problem goes away.

Using HWCursor "false" in xorg.conf does remove this problem, but then that means a flickering cursor under other circumstances.

There was never a problem with my previous nvidia card (Ti4200) and I'm using the latest nvidia drivers (6629).

Anybody else seeing a problem like this?

JjcampNR · Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 6:59 am Post subject:

Try going down a driver version or two, I've heard a lot of people are having problems with the new NVIDIA drivers. I haven't had a problem myself, but I know a bunch of people have. Let me know how that works out.

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barry · Apprentice Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 170 Location: UK

Unfortunately the 6600GT chipset is only supported on the latest drivers, so I can't try earlier ones. I did try installing Fedora Core 3, and the same problem exists there, so it looks like it's a hardware, driver or x.org problem.