[HowTo] Turn mouse tearing OFF :), easily turn off the nasty mouse bug for ATI graphic cards Options

[Louse76]

I think this fix will make things more comftable, untill the January drivers comes up.

Could you please elaborate on what you mean by 'January drivers'?

[domino]

well the Jan and Feb drivers aren't working . I guess a mousepose UB version will work for now.

http://www.boinx.com

[quixos]

thanks xtraa, using the latest universal mousepose, your directions are still good.

working with ati x800gt.

[r0ck3r4ever]

What is making the mouse to tear, how did Apple managed to fix this issue, there must be something wrong with the driver, maybe time is ower only friend... Maybe 10.4.6 will fix this issue, who knows..

[cyclonefr]

What is making the mouse to tear, how did Apple managed to fix this issue, there must be something wrong with the driver, maybe time is ower only friend... Maybe 10.4.6 will fix this issue, who knows..

No it won't, we have that bug because Apple want us to have it (or at least, if they don't, it's related to the hardware within their iMAC which is causing problems with our PCs).

Why am I telling this ? Simply because since the announcement of the new MacMini, we definitly know that Apple will use a GMA950 intel chip and GMA 9x0 users report the same problem as our (at least, maybe not the mouse tearing, but the no resolution switch bug, etc) with the new 10.4.5 update.

Restoring an old kext from 10.4.4 (which is actually pretty old, Apple was pretty far of the new MacMini) would make the resolution switcher back, so it's pretty sure it has something to do with the real macs themselves (TPM ? Nah I don't think so since developpement kit have TPM for awhile and GMA9x0 worked 100% on our PCs. EFI ? Now that could be it... I am not sure though).

In other word : Do not expect Apple to fix it for us, they simply won't since it's no point for them and for their computers. We gotta figure it on our own

[Kyrie1965]

What is making the mouse to tear, how did Apple managed to fix this issue, there must be something wrong with the driver, maybe time is ower only friend... Maybe 10.4.6 will fix this issue, who knows..

Because we don't have ATI NDRV driver. NDRV driver manage framebuffer, hardware cursor, resolutions, color profiles, etc. NDRV is main video driver. ATINDRV.kext loads only on native Mac (it have some verifications inside).

So we have only VESA "ndrv driver" with OpenGL acceleration. It have no support for hardware cursor, resolutions, color profiles, etc.

If anyone "hack" ATINDRV.kext we will have full support without mouse tearing. Or ATI release good drivers (x86) for us.

[r0ck3r4ever]

Ohh, a driver is kinda hard to develop. The Macvdia guys can't manage to make a working driver (it passed over half a year now) so it is the same thing with ati. But the fixes are smaller for the Ati drivers than Nvidia.
So ehh, do it your self is kinda hard. I hope we have some passionate developers in our community to fix this issue.

[Arthur]

seems to work better with radius = 0 for me

[ZX81]

thanks xxtraa, great workaround, no more bad tearing on this X300

cheers

[Jason_Thames]

You know... ever since Mousepose was released as a Unibin... This solution has been pretty much seamless on my PC. I use a Unibin Applescript application bundle as well. I really appreciate your little trick xtraa... Regards...

-Jason

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Thanks xtraa for all the helpful posts, I don't have mouse tearing or artefacts but if I get an ati card and end up with any I have this bookmarked, right now I have a geforce with no drivers like so many others around here.




off topic a little , but i don't think it is wise for the computer industry to be always apropriating names for things rather than just inventing their own, first it was icons and now artefacts and I'm guessing there were probably many others inbetween. With google and other search engines being increasingly employed for scholarly research everyones things needs it's own name, not borrowing or stealing something elses name.

[cashman]

I yust bought an Apple Imac Intel Core Duo 20" (after seeing no escape from the tearing {censored}). I can confirm thaht i have no TEARING whatsoever and that my mouse pointer has a shadow underneath! After quitting OpelnGL games there is no pointer deformation....

[vinlar]

Now for a bone-headed question...

I cannot find "Startobjects" or the other items listed below in "Users" in "System Preferences". Am I missing something?

Next, go to your OSX Users settings in the System Preferences.

1. click on Startobjects
2. click the plus, navigate to the Extras>Speakable Items folder you copied from the install image
3. select "Show Mouse" and click on add

[powrslave]

Now for a bone-headed question...

I cannot find "Startobjects" or the other items listed below in "Users" in "System Preferences". Am I missing something?

I think this is what the poster means...

Accessibility features with Mouseposé
A major benefit of Mouseposé is it’s usefulness as an accessibility tool, allowing people with disabilities to use the spotlight feature to find and follow the mouse pointer anywhere on the screen.

You can also use Mouseposé with OS X’s Speech controls (now called _Voiceover_ commands in Tiger). You have to activate Speech using the Speech preference pane: Apple > System Preferences > Speech, then select the Speech Recognition tab, making sure the Apple Speakable Items is “On”. Click on “Open Speakable Items Folder” and copy the Scripts in “Speakable Items” in the Mouseposé Disk Image into the Speakable Items Folder.

The default command for activating Mouseposé is to speak “Show Mouse” and for deactivating it is to speak “Stop Showing Mouse”. If you want to change the speech commands you can simply rename the scripts to what you’d like to say out loud.

[aquanutz]

Yeah, great fix. The tearing is VERY minimal now. The only exception being after I quit Warcraft III I have to reboot to get my mouse back. No biggy though, it's only about a 20 second reboot time. Thanks!

[XanthraX]

Now for a bone-headed question...

I cannot find "Startobjects" or the other items listed below in "Users" in "System Preferences". Am I missing something?

System Preferences -> Users -> Login Items
This did xtraa mean to "Startopbjects"

Tested and working,

Thanks xtraa

[johnniecarcinogen]

System Preferences -> Users -> Login Items
This did xtraa mean to "Startopbjects"

Tested and working,

Thanks xtraa

Yeah its 'login items' I think xtraa is german and was translating.

[dilnalomo]

so far it works fine with me...thanks dude.

[Stadsman]

Works great on my ATI 9550SE.

Thanks for the tip, the mouse tearing is now kept to a bare minimum

[poispois]

Thanks for the tip! Mouse tearing is now pratically gone. This 'hack' gives a bit of mouse flickering but i can bare with that.
Thumbs up!