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Belonging to this posting I want to present you an easier way to fix the cursor bug caused by the radeon opensource driver.

• Add two new entries to your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

• Add PPA Key from Tormod Volden (sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x4b1e287796dd5c9a)
• Upgrade Drivers (sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade)
• Reboot Box and have fun

Afterwards you can remove the last added entries from the sources.list if you want.

I want to refer to the display bug I have with the opensource radeon driver. Alex Deucher commited 9 hours ago a bugfix for the annoying mouse cursor bug.  I compiled the driver and replaced the driver from repositories with the homebrew one. It seems like the problem has really been solved. I keep observe this driver-version for some days and hope the problem is gone now.

I wont keep back the way how I created the driver:

• git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati
• ./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr
• make
• make install

During the «make»-step I had to add some additional developement packages like mesa-common-dev, xorg-dev and xserver-dev.

Afterwards the files radeon_drv.la, radeon_drv.so, ati_drv.la and ati_drv.so located under /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers were updated.

You could also try to replace only the binaries in the last-mentioned directory. I offer you the 4 files for download (No warranty!). http://combatx.net/temp/radeon.tar