5 Dec
2015
5 Dec
'15
10:46 a.m.
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?
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5 Dec
5 Dec
12:09 p.m.
On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 05:46:38 -0500
Felix Miata <mrmazda(a)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
5:15 p.m.
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.
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1:18 p.m.
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"
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Slávek
5:15 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] r14 mouse pointer missing in Jessie [workaround]
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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