6 Dec
2015
6 Dec
'15
12:15 a.m.
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.
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