Catalyst Drivers - No mouse in 3D games!

Hello all! Didn't see a post about this that was even somewhat recent, so I'll ask. If it's been brought up and I didn't see, feel free to gripe at me.
In any case, I'm using catalyst-utils and catalyst-dkms from the repos with my AMD A6-3650 APU. With these drivers, graphics are fine, but I have no mouse in 3D games (Such as OpenArena, UrbanTerror, Unvanquished, etc) with only one known exception, Red Eclipse (no idea why that works but the rest don't...). Tweaking in-game cvars has no effect. The mouse is technically seen - when I'm in an arena I can move the mouse and the screen jitters around (as if it's trying to turn 180-ish degrees on every mouse input) but it's certainly not "working". Menus are broken as well, as the mouse doesn't even show up there.
2D games are fine (Wesnoth, etc.) so it seems to be an issue with just 3D. I don't have these issues on the F/OSS drivers, nor with fglrx on Gentoo, so this is a bit odd. Thanks to anyone who can help!
Useful package versions:
local/sdl 1.2.15-3
local/catalylst-dkms 12.9-1
local/catalyst-utils 12.9-0.1
local/linux-ck-kx 3.6.2-1
My xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
Screen "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1" LeftOf "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
EndSection
Section "Module"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:0:1:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:0:1:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Maybe you need some settings like
SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_HEAD=1 SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0 /usr/bin/quake3
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 24#p388824
Last edited by karol (2010-10-12 10:20:51)

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