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Submitted by bbnck on Thu, 08/28/2014 - 23:50

Cusor flickering all the time

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Thu, 08/28/2014 - 23:50
bbnck
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Hello,

I have just installed Trisquel and the cursor appears to be flickering all the time. It makes it difficult to know whether the cursor is directly over a target that I intend to click.

I noticed in the Details section of System Settings that the graphics is "VESA: DVST" and the Experience is "Fallback".

I have an AMD Radeon graphics card.

00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Trinity [Radeon HD 7560D]

Hoping someone could help me try and resolve this. Thanks!

(P.S. Apologies if this is posted in the wrong section of the forum).

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Fri, 08/29/2014 - 03:01
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Fallback is Trisquel's default, so no worries about that. AMD graphics cards are the worst for compatibility with free software, but I have never heard of the issue you are having. Perhaps someone else might know.

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Fri, 08/29/2014 - 07:10
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lembas
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I believe the newer AMD GPUs will not work without a binary blob. Thus VESA is used instead.

Try this https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/installing-latest-backported-kernel-and-xserver

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