Slow mouse in 3d game

[rocket_man]

I'm a newbie so please take that into account with your response. I installed Fedora 9 just to see what Linux is all about. I downloaded the 3d chess game for the Fedora install tool. When I get into the game the mouse is extremely slow. The same mouse motion on the desktop screen moves the mouse only a couple of pixels in the game. I'm using a Sapphire x1650 graphics card. The graphics in the 3d game are ok just the mouse. Once I can get the mouse to move on of the chess pieces the piece moves OK. Any thoughts? :(

[rocket_man]

I guess since there are no responses I'm just stuck with this problem because of my ATI graphics card. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/images/smilies/mad.gif

[brebs]

Which chess game? Which mouse?

Need more detail.

[rocket_man]

The game is in the Add/Remove Software under games. It says just 3D Chess the homepage for the game doesn't have much info other than it was written by steviedisco.co.uk. The mouse is a standard PS/2 mouse that came with my Dell 8300. I've tried adjusting the mouse settings in preferences but it has no affect.

[Hlingler]

Please post results of:
glxinfo|grep render

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[rocket_man]

Here are the results

direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 AGP 4x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL

[Hlingler]

OK, so far so good.

You say that you "tried adjusting the mouse settings in preferences but it has no affect" - is that inside the game settings, or desktop mouse settings?

Install package driconf:
yum install driconf

Start driconf the FIRST TIME ONLY as root user from a terminal command line, to generate default /etc/drirc file. Then exit CLI and start driconf from menu as any normal user. Play with DRI settings - you can adjust them per-app (i.e., just for the 3D chess game). Experiment and see what happens. Report results please.

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[rocket_man]

I changed the DRI settings with no significant affect on the mouse control. I did notice a few oddities such as the mouse moves to the left better than it moves to the right. It moves up and down slightly faster than right and left. I also downloaded 2 other 3D games to test the mouse. The other 3D games have the same issue with mouse control. I also tried a USB mouse instead of my PS/2 mouse but no change.

[Hlingler]

Please post contents of file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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[rocket_man]

This is the xorg file.

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1024x768"
HorizSync 31.5 - 48.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

[Hlingler]

Looks OK. No mouse section, but X11/Xorg should probe and use defaults. The next question I should have asked earlier: all software up-to-date? F9 released with "beta" X11/Xorg, which has had many fixes/updates since release. Latest fix includes (surprise!) mouse support. If not, try a full system software update.

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[rocket_man]

I downloaded Fedora 9 last weekend and ran the update a couple of times. It says there is nothing to update so I'm current. It seems like a timing issue but I'm not sure what's causing it. I may download the ATI Linux drivers and take xServer back to version 8 as it suggest in one thread. Lot's of work just to get a mouse going but heck I'm learning a lot about Linux trying to solve this problem.


Thanks for all who offered help.

[Hlingler]

I downloaded Fedora 9 last weekend and ran the update a couple of times. It says there is nothing to update so I'm current. It seems like a timing issue but I'm not sure what's causing it. I may download the ATI Linux drivers and take xServer back to version 8 as it suggest in one thread. Lot's of work just to get a mouse going but heck I'm learning a lot about Linux trying to solve this problem.


Thanks for all who offered help.Not necessry: the latest ATI driver now works (well, supposedly, maybe) with X11R7.4/Xorg-1.5. See end of thread: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1097426#post1097426

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