Re: no mouse cursor unless manual X config 'Option "HWCursor" "off"' in Jessie
On Saturday 05 December 2015 23:25:20 Brian wrote:
> On Sat 05 Dec 2015 at 17:56:14 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> > Brian composed on 2015-12-05 20:52 (UTC):
> > > On Sat 05 Dec 2015 at 12:38:38 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> > >> Fresh Jessie installation about a week ago, TDE added last night.
> > >> Normally using startx rather than any DM, but DM when used, has no
> > >> pointer either.. Mouse could be used to select and click, but no way
> > >> to tell where pointer was until it hovered something that changes on
> > >> hover. Same problem in IceWM. 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 nor openSUSE
> > >> Leap/IceWM nor 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. Any ideas on how to eliminate need for disabling
> > >> HWCursor?
> > >
> > > Did the pointer work before you added TDE
> >
> > I don't remember whether I tried IceWM before installing TDE. I rarely
> > use anything other than [K,T]DE except to determine whether a problem
> > belongs to Xorg or [K,T]DE.
>
> You could start from scratch and refresh your memory.
>
> > > (whatever that is)?
> >
> > It's what KDE could have been:
> > https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Trinity_Desktop_Environment
>
> Ah; it's non-Debian. All the more reason to re-install Jessie and
> investigate.
We'd love to be Debian. We are too short of money (for lots of
infrastructure) and developers quite to get there.
Lisi
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