Installed RH Server 5.3 x86_64.

Problem is that for some reason mouse cursor goes very large (2-3x larger than normal).
After reboot & logging in cursor is normal but at some point it goes large.

It's also very unprecise.
Anyway, I've some X.org settings, but nothing has worked yet.
Has anyone had similar case ?

Videocard is ati 5700 if in correct ,but I think problem was before installing ati drivers (when running Xorg with vesa driver )

Hi john, welcome to LQ forums.

Please update to 5.4, or download 5.4 ISO and install.

There might be possibility that your mouse is controlled by graphic card, so she or drivers are the culprit. Test with other card, and also you should pay attention when exactly change occurs, maybe some application forces it, like a game or something.

Hi, thanks.

It is actually RHEL 5.4 not 5.3.
Cursor seems to change when working with firefox (x86_64, system rpm installed).
Tested with both gnome and kde, no difference. I'm useing KDE mysefl.

It's wierd that if I\m running initlevel 5 and for example hit ctrl-alt-BS, cursor stays same.
If I go to runlevel 3 and then runlevel 5, cursor is back normal.

If I start system with runlevel 3 and log in as user , do startx,
cursor goes large, then kill X , and do startx again, then cursor is still large and ugly.


I don't understand this anatomy very well, where and why this cursor change happens. Why it goes back normal after system restart , but not after user kills X and starts it again?

But could anyone point out ways to change X cursor manually?

You most likely need to install newest drivers from ATI. Take a look at this hotfix:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...912Hotfix.aspx, it seams it also happens on Windows 7.

Hi,

I installed ati-driver-installer-10-1-x86.x86_64.run
which was released , if I remember correctly, end of jan 2010 or so.
Anyway.. this did'nt help, tried with CentOS 5.4 x86_64 and RHEL 5.4 x86_64, on both, with those latest drivers condition occurred.

So now I threw out RHEL firefox , and downloaded i386 seamonkey.
Installed i386 java and flash plugins on it ( FF had x86_64 java and flash)... and so far cursor has been normal.

So it was still firefox ( or maybe java or flash ) that caused this.
Probably firefox, because I'm quite sure it happened also before I had java/flash on FF at all.

I stopped using centos/rhel 5.4 (on both distros problem occurs same way) firefox and it is a bit better now.
I am useing seamonkey (2.0.4) but still time2time cursor goes large and nothing but restart helps.

Has anyone got any idea why this happens / how to solve/control it ?

It would be good to post a detailed bug report on CentOS bug-tracker and to see what they come up with.

Please take note that CentOS 5.5 is to come out soon (MY prediction is 2 weeks), so you may have better luck with 5.5. RHEL 5.5 is already out.

added

Option "SWCursor" "true"


to xorg.conf Device section. cursor been normal for couple of days.

previously mentioned control-center install did'nt acctually help.