Bug#407798: xserver-xorg-video-i810: Cursor disappears after resuming from suspend-to-ram

[Johannes Adams <adams@tzi.org>]

Drew Parsons wrote:
> Johannes wrote:
>> Since some time (unfortunately I don't remember the exact version of the change), the cursor disappears after resuming from suspend-to-ram. It's
>> still possible to use the cursor (clicking things on the desktop or in the menu if you manage to find them), but the cursor itself isn't there
>> anymore. 
> 
> Yeah, the bug is tabled at #390913, #407798 and #407798.

Sorry for the duplicate, seems like I didn't read carefully enough.


>> This can only be resolved through a full system restart
> 
> No, as mentioned in #390913 you should find you can recover the cursor
> by stepping over to console and back again (Ctrl-Alt-F1 followed by
> Alt-F7).

Unfortunately this is not true for the system here - the cursor doesn't
show up when switching to console and back again, neither when X is
restarted.

> This is one of the things we hope that the future release of X.org
> (X11R7.2 or 7.3) will fix, via the modesetting branch.  This won't help
> you if use etch, but after etch is released you could try the new
> version of xserver-xorg-video-i810-modesetting once we get around to
> updating it.  It will likely appear first in experimental before we
> move it into unstable.

I'm looking forward to test this, thanks.

Oh yeah - one thing I forgot in the initial report: thanks a lot for all
the time you keep investing in building these packages! Keep up the good
work!

Yours
Johannes