wine users - May 2008 - Blinking-Flashing When Ever I Hit The Mouse.....

Hi,

I have Ubuntu with all the update and stuff... The problem I'm having is
very odd.... lets use couter strike source as a example... I can get in to the
game just perfect, everything loads and everything is fine.. But once i start to
click on my mouse, the screen flashes white....for like 1ms....  It does it
every time... It also does it in Warcraft III when it opens.. .and also it does
it in Google Earth.... The google earth that you can install under add and
remove...


If any ideas come up from this that would be helpful.. I'm currently not
running the xorg-driver-fglrx.. I'm not 100% sure what I am running- all i
know is that i followed this guide at ubuntu website :

Guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=764633

Two Commands to replace the FGLRX driver with .... ??....

Code:
sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx


Then auto-reconfigure X

Code:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -phigh



Any support or ideas would be a big help, thanks
Kyle

> But once i start to click on my mouse, the screen flashes white

Looks like the kind of thing compiz can be doing.

Try stopping it before running the game.
To do that press ALT+F2 and type :

Code:
metacity --replace


And then start your game[/quote]

cpuboye11 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have Ubuntu with all the update and stuff... The problem I'm having
is very odd.... lets use couter strike source as a example... I can get in to
the game just perfect, everything loads and everything is fine.. But once i
start to click on my mouse, the screen flashes white....for like 1ms....  It
does it every time... It also does it in Warcraft III when it opens.. .and also
it does it in Google Earth.... The google earth that you can install under add
and remove...
>
>
> If any ideas come up from this that would be helpful.. I'm currently
not running the xorg-driver-fglrx.. I'm not 100% sure what I am running- all
i know is that i followed this guide at ubuntu website :
>
> Guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=764633
>
> Two Commands to replace the FGLRX driver with .... ??....
>
> Code:
> sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx
>
>
> Then auto-reconfigure X
>
> Code:
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -phigh
>
>
>
> Any support or ideas would be a big help, thanks
> Kyle
>
>
>
>
>
>
>   
I have only done a bit of reading on the ATI/fglrx, but it sounds to me 
like you might want to use the restricted drivers for your purposes 
because the open source drivers are reportedly not known for great 3d 
support.  Don't quote me :)  You could try:
glxinfo | head -5
Which should tell you what driver is controlling your screen, I think.  
I'm sure someone else has better ideas, just tossing that out.
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It seems switching between compiz and meatacity ( or w/e ) fixed the
problem......


But now since i switched between the two.... ( even after restarting) my mouse
icon in warcraft III is gone....

And it is lagging pretty bad...

Code:
kyle at kyle-laptop:~$ glxinfo | head -5 
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2

thats besides my problem.. I will fix the mouse problem later, is there a way to
make it so i can run these programs with out the flashing with out going back to
Metacity --replace?

Nvm... I think i got it..  Simply putting -opengl helped alot for WC3...