Hi, I’m new to openSUSE but I have some experience with other distros, but ever since I installed tumbleweed(I also tried Leap before and had the same problem) I noticed the mouse cursor jitters around when it changes, for example when hovering over text and it changes from the arrow to the text selection cursor. The actual functionality of the mouse isn’t affected, only the cursors. The problem happens everywhere whenever the mouse cursor changes.
My computer is a basic lenovo laptop with onboard graphics:
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230706
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.6
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.107.0
Qt Version: 5.15.10
Kernel Version: 6.3.9-1-vanilla (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 9.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 82MF
System Version: IdeaPad 3 15ALC6
Kernel says vanilla because I installed it hoping it would fix my problem but nothing changed. Previously I have installed other distros with Plasma, Gnome, Xfce and Cinnamon and I never experienced this problem. The mouse is a logitech wireless mouse. I also have a huion graphics tablet connected, and when I hover with the pen over some text the problem also happens.
Searching on the internet I found a thread telling the OP to try changing the compositor settings, I tried that and the problem continues.
In wayland this problem doesn’t happen, but I need to use X11 because Krita is glitchy with wayland and I need that for work.
Thank you
Please paste here within PRE tags (</> icon above input window) complete input/output from running inxi -GSaz in Konsole.
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System:
Kernel: 6.3.9-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.1.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.3.9-1-default
root=UUID=5bb6ee90-f080-40ba-b416-a102a5ffb24f splash=silent
resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/dea903fa-996d-4547-b6c1-76249869072e quiet
security=apparmor mitigations=auto
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.6 tk: Qt v: 5.15.10 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2
dm: SDDM Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230706
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Lucienne vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5
code: Vega process: GF 14nm built: 2017-20 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s ports: active: eDP-1
empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164c class-ID: 0300
temp: 40.0 C
Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-3:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b725
class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.1.2
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: BOE Display 0x08d5 built: 2019 res: 1920x1080
hz: 60 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.3 renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (renoir LLVM
16.0.6 DRM 3.52 6.3.9-1-default) direct-render: Yes
The modesetting DIX display driver is the upstream default, which seems may recently have been broken WRT AMD GPUs. If xf86-video-amdgpu is not installed, install it, restart X, and check with inxi if amdgpu has been put to use in place of modesetting, and if so, whether it affected your issue. For a little background on these two drivers, read here.
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Yeah that was the problem, it works perfectly now, thanks!
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.1.2
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0
screens: 1