The moment I installed the drivers, my mouse pointer size doubled. I uninstalled, tried other drivers, same deal. I tried all of these: Whatever the card came with (it was from 10-07), 13.10, 13.11beta1, 13.11beta6. 13.11beta1 refused to install the actual drivers or CCC (only the Catalyst Manager) and therefore did not actually produce the mouse pointer problem.
There is no escape from Google. Apparently this is a known issue that cropped up on AMD cards some time ago. One "solution" depends on the suggestion that the card itself is not getting enough power: http://. But considering that this card pretty much comes out of the box overclocked as high as it will ever be safe to do so, this is not a good solution. (Note that at least one of the victims of this problem did try exchanging his card for the same thing, to no avail.)
I found a much better solution here: http://. In a nutshell, it involves juggling desktop themes in a way that "tricks" the mouse pointer into behaving. Unfortunately, the solution is incomplete; the text cursor mouse pointer (the one that looks like an i-beam) remains giant. I used this solution myself and I still do have a giant text cursor mouse pointer.
This is a problem. Either with the card or the driver. And the really worrying thing is that history serves that AMD will never do a thing to fix it. But I would certainly love to hear about other possible solutions, because as it stands, for the next several years, I get to be reminded about this card's flaws (or AMD's) every time I hover the mouse pointer over text. Please do note in advance that the "usual suspects" - mouse pointer settings, change how the mouse pointer looks, etc. - have been thoroughly eliminated. The problem is not something obvious.
There is no escape from Google. Apparently this is a known issue that cropped up on AMD cards some time ago. One "solution" depends on the suggestion that the card itself is not getting enough power: http://. But considering that this card pretty much comes out of the box overclocked as high as it will ever be safe to do so, this is not a good solution. (Note that at least one of the victims of this problem did try exchanging his card for the same thing, to no avail.)
I found a much better solution here: http://. In a nutshell, it involves juggling desktop themes in a way that "tricks" the mouse pointer into behaving. Unfortunately, the solution is incomplete; the text cursor mouse pointer (the one that looks like an i-beam) remains giant. I used this solution myself and I still do have a giant text cursor mouse pointer.
This is a problem. Either with the card or the driver. And the really worrying thing is that history serves that AMD will never do a thing to fix it. But I would certainly love to hear about other possible solutions, because as it stands, for the next several years, I get to be reminded about this card's flaws (or AMD's) every time I hover the mouse pointer over text. Please do note in advance that the "usual suspects" - mouse pointer settings, change how the mouse pointer looks, etc. - have been thoroughly eliminated. The problem is not something obvious.
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