Slávek Banko composed on 2015-12-05 14:18 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata wrote:
Fresh Jessie installation about a week ago, Trinity added tonight. Using startx rather than any DM. Mouse can be used to select and click, but no way to tell where pointer is until it hovers something that changes on hover. Same problem in IceWM. Booting openSUSE Leap instead, pointer works normally in IceWM. Both evdev and mouse input drivers are installed. Google can't find anything helpful except WRT *buntu, rsyslog, arm or raspberry pi. Anyone here had this happen and/or know a fix?
This reminds me the behavior of Ubuntu 14.04.3 (Trusty with kernel and Xorg from Vily) in a virtual machine. You can try in Xorg settings give for your video card option: Option "HWCursor" "off"
After clicking send I did some more searching and found this workaround functional, but constitutes breakage of xorg automagic.
I have other machines that use this same Intel 945G/ICH7 chipset, so it's hard to imagine why this is needed here but not elsewhere, nor in openSUSE 13.1/KDE4 or openSUSE Leap/IceWM or Mageia 5/KDE4 on same machine. I've never before on any post-XFree86 installation needed to turn off HWCursor. Naturally as the problem is same in IceWM, this must be a Jessie problem, not a TDE or hardware problem.