Re: [E-devel] Weird disappearing mouse pointer problem

[Tyno <ty...@gm...>]

On 6/20/05, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <ra...@ra...> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:34:09 +1000 Tyno <ty...@gm...> babbled:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been running e17 on my laptop for a while and just last week I've
> > started to have a bit of an odd problem.  I go from one screen to the
> > other and all of a sudden the mouse pointer disappears.  Focus stops
> > following the mouse and the only way I can tell where it is is by
> > hitting the windows menu key if it happens to be on the desktop
> > somewhere.  Not that it's useful for anything other than switching
> > between monitors as I can't click on anything.
> >
> > More info that may or may not be relevant...  I'm using Debian testing
> > (full dist upgrade was done last week a day or so after the first time
> > this happened.)  XFree86 4.3.0.1,  2.6.11.10 kernel and e17 updated
> > from CVS a couple of times a week.
> >
> > Has anyone got any suggestions as to how I should go about working out
> > hwo this is happening?
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> e17 doesn't change/touch the mouse cursor after it initially started. tha=
t's the
> only time it fiddles with it (currently) beyond that it may warp/move the
> pointer - but never make it vanish as such. my guess would be a hardware =
/
> driver bug in x - have u tried flipping to a text console and back to x a=
gain?

Yep.  Done that.  Pointer was still gone.  For the record, I'm using
the radeon driver  from the xserver-xfree86 package.

Tyno