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Re: Bug#619019: xserver-xorg-video-intel: latest update to debian squeeze made the mouse pointer invisible in my openbox/gdm session



reassign 619019 src:linux-2.6 2.6.32-31
affects  619019 xserver-xorg-video-intel
thanks

Hi,

and thanks for your report.

LN2 <mbfmaurer@gmail.com> (20/03/2011):
> The latest update to debian squeeze seems to have introduced the Bug
> reported here http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550942 .
> (Upstream bug report can be found here
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29413 .),
> […]
> Apparently the fix for this problem that the upstream bug links to
> was not included in the latest squeeze update.

AFAICT from the upstream bug, the guilty commit is on the kernel side:
| drm/i915: Add pipe A force quirk for some laptops (Closes: #608148)

and that commit got included in the kernel update for the 6.0.1 point
release:
  http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6/news/20110307T195907Z.html

So downgrading your kernel to the previous revision (2.6.32-30) should
make your cursor become available again.

Kernel maintainers, you apparently want this commit to fix that:
| commit 897493504addc5609f04a2c4f73c37ab972c29b2
| Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
| Date:   Sun Sep 12 18:25:19 2010 +0100
| 
|     drm/i915: Ensure that the crtcinfo is populated during mode_fixup()
|     
|     This should fix the mysterious mode setting failures reported during
|     boot up and after resume, generally for i8xx class machines.
|     
|     Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16478
|     Reported-and-tested-by: Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@gmail.com>
|     Buzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29413
|     Tested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
|     Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
|     Cc: stable@kernel.org

KiBi.

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