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?
On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 05:46:38 -0500 Felix Miata mrmazda@earthlink.net 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?
The glaringly obvious: Have you checked the Control Center to be sure you're using a mouse cursor theme that exists on the system?
Does it work in other DEs?
E. Liddell
E. Liddell composed on 2015-12-05 07:09 (UTC-0500):
On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 05:46:38 -0500 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?
The glaringly obvious: Have you checked the Control Center to be sure
Didn't try control center's mouse section, as too hard to navigate without mouse cursor. Also, I started tdm, and there was no cursor in it either, pointing to a more fundamental problem.
you're using a mouse cursor theme that exists on the system?
I compared the OP machine to a slightly newer machine's Jessie. The process suggested suggested adding hicolor or adwaita icon themes might make a difference, but it didn't.
Does it work in other DEs?
Other than the one I mentioned in OP that also does not work, no other are installed.
On Saturday 05 of December 2015 11:46:38 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"
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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