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Flickering Cursor in Raspbian
I need help. Every time I download a new copy of Raspbian, when I go to the desktop, the cursor flickers like nuts, especially after the cursor changes shape, like when something's loading. It's annoying. Can anyone fix this? :/
Re: Flickering Cursor in Raspbian
You could try the HW cursor code I wrote. You will need to build and install it. I've still not got round to fixing the issues flagged up when I tried to submit it to the source repo (works fine , formatting only)
It's here
https://github.com/JamesH65/xf86-video- ... i_hwcursor
James
It's here
https://github.com/JamesH65/xf86-video- ... i_hwcursor
James
Principal Software Engineer at Raspberry Pi Ltd.
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Working in the Applications Team.
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Re: Flickering Cursor in Raspbian
How do you build the source code?
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Re: Flickering Cursor in Raspbian
Oh wait I found them on the github link you gave me, thanks! 

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Re: Flickering Cursor in Raspbian
It didn't fix it, the cursor is flickering even more than last time, and by the way, I did all steps. Help?
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Re: Flickering Cursor in Raspbian
Well, I reinstalled raspbian, did updates, and now I'm back at square one.
The cursor now flickers like in the past, where it's after launching the Pi Store, instead flickering from boot-up like from the driver you wanted me to install. I need to make a few notes about this bug:
1. begins from Pi Store
2. when loading store, the cursor changes to a cursor with its loading icon in the lower right-hand corner of the cursor, then it flickers
If you need more evidence, I'll post some pictures soon. By the way, where do you do bug reports for Raspbian?
EDIT: If you wonder about the wierd post times, that's because I live in America. XD
EDIT No. 2: The flickering also happens when the normal loading logo appears, and the weird cursor with the loading logo in the lower left-hand part of the cursor also appears in some other loading situations as well.
The cursor now flickers like in the past, where it's after launching the Pi Store, instead flickering from boot-up like from the driver you wanted me to install. I need to make a few notes about this bug:
1. begins from Pi Store
2. when loading store, the cursor changes to a cursor with its loading icon in the lower right-hand corner of the cursor, then it flickers
If you need more evidence, I'll post some pictures soon. By the way, where do you do bug reports for Raspbian?
EDIT: If you wonder about the wierd post times, that's because I live in America. XD
EDIT No. 2: The flickering also happens when the normal loading logo appears, and the weird cursor with the loading logo in the lower left-hand part of the cursor also appears in some other loading situations as well.
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Re: Flickering Cursor in Raspbian
i didn't tried, but i found something like this... addingRoundDuckMan wrote:I need help. Every time I download a new copy of Raspbian, when I go to the desktop, the cursor flickers like nuts, especially after the cursor changes shape, like when something's loading. It's annoying. Can anyone fix this? :/
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vt.cur_default=1
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vt.global_cursor_default=0
maybe it works like suggested.
(see http://www.friendlyarm.net/forum/topic/2998)
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RPi B (256MB), B (512MB), B+, ZeroW; 2B; 3B, 3B+; 4B (4GB)
RPi B (256MB), B (512MB), B+, ZeroW; 2B; 3B, 3B+; 4B (4GB)
Re: Flickering Cursor in Raspbian
Hmm. Not the cursor code itself then, but something is making the cursor flash. Odd that no-one else has reported this. Have you tried a different mouse?RoundDuckMan wrote:It didn't fix it, the cursor is flickering even more than last time, and by the way, I did all steps. Help?
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Re: Flickering Cursor in Raspbian
@ jamesh I've tried that. Nothing happened.
@ beta-tester I might try that soon.
@ beta-tester I might try that soon.
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Re: Flickering Cursor in Raspbian
It didn't work.beta-tester wrote:i didn't tried, but i found something like this... addingRoundDuckMan wrote:I need help. Every time I download a new copy of Raspbian, when I go to the desktop, the cursor flickers like nuts, especially after the cursor changes shape, like when something's loading. It's annoying. Can anyone fix this? :/orCode: Select all
vt.cur_default=1
to the end of /boot/cmdline.txt can change the blinking behaviour of the cursor...Code: Select all
vt.global_cursor_default=0
maybe it works like suggested.
(see http://www.friendlyarm.net/forum/topic/2998)
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Re: Flickering Cursor in Raspbian
By the way, I'm using a model B 512mb Raspberry Pi.