Mouse pointer strange problem...

Posted by pask on Super User See other posts from Super User or by pask
Published on 2011-01-13T00:40:24Z Indexed on 2011/01/13 0:55 UTC
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Hi all,
i have last ubuntu installed (10.10), but from an year and thousand updates, video drivers updates, an hundreds of tricks, the mouse pointer is showed like an UGLY square...

These are the screenshots:

I have no idea what to do to solve this problem. Anyone of you have an idea to solve it?

thanks,
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Mouse pointer strange problem...

Posted by Paska on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Paska
Published on 2011-01-13T00:31:56Z Indexed on 2011/01/13 19:58 UTC
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Hi all,
i have last ubuntu installed (10.10), but from an year and thousand updates, video drivers updates, an hundreds of tricks, the mouse pointer is showed like an UGLY square...

These are the screenshots:

I have no idea what to do to solve this problem. Anyone of you have an idea to solve it?

Edit: this problem was encountered from 8.10+!

Edit 2, Video card specifications:

paska@ubuntu:~$ hwinfo --gfxcard
35: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)             
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1106_3230
  Unique ID: VCu0.QX54AGQKWeE
  Parent ID: vSkL.CP+qXDDqow8
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "VIA K8M890CE/K8N890CE [Chrome 9]"
  Vendor: pci 0x1106 "VIA Technologies, Inc."
  Device: pci 0x3230 "K8M890CE/K8N890CE [Chrome 9]"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
  SubDevice: pci 0x81b5 
  Revision: 0x11
  Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (rw,prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xfa000000-0xfaffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xfbcf0000-0xfbcfffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 16 (10026 events)
  I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00001106d00003230sv00001043sd000081B5bc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: viafb is not active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe viafb"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #17 (PCI bridge)

Primary display adapter: #35
paska@ubuntu:~$ 

thanks,
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