[opensuse] mouse pointer disappears
Hi: Running SuSE 10.2 on HP Pavilion AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+. My mouse pointer disappears every so often. The mouse is still working, so to speak - I just can't see it. Using keyboard controls I have tried changing personal settings in KDE to a new mouse scheme. That does not help. Even restarting KDE does not help. So far, only a reboot restores the mouse pointer. Comments appreciated. -- Regards, Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 25 January 2007 11:43, Richard Pace wrote:
Hi: Running SuSE 10.2 on HP Pavilion AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+.
My mouse pointer disappears every so often. The mouse is still working, so to speak - I just can't see it. Using keyboard controls I have tried changing personal settings in KDE to a new mouse scheme. That does not help. Even restarting KDE does not help. So far, only a reboot restores the mouse pointer.
The "mouse pointer disappears problem" has been solved for me. The following is a response I received from the kde-linux list: [begin kde-linux response] On Friday 26 January 2007 10:27, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Em Sexta 26 Janeiro 2007 12:19, Richard Pace escreveu:
On Friday 26 January 2007 05:15, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Em Quinta 25 Janeiro 2007 21:18, Richard Pace escreveu:
Hi: Posted this on SuSE's list also. No response yet.
Running SuSE 10.2 on HP Pavilion AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+. KDE 3.5.5 "release 45.2".
My mouse pointer disappears every so often. The mouse is still working, so to speak - I just can't see it. After the mouse pointer disappears, using keyboard controls, I have tried changing personal settings in KDE to a new mouse scheme. That does not help. Even restarting KDE does not help. So far, only a reboot restores the mouse pointer.
Comments appreciated.
Is your video card an nvidia one? If so, there's a bug in nvidia driver that causes exactly this problem with some nvidia cards (not all). The workaround is to disable hardware cursor in xorg.conf. Add the following line in the device section for your video card: Option "HWCursor" "off"
Yes, it is an nvidia card. Here is the device section from xorg.conf: Section "Device" BoardName "GeForce 6150 LE" BusID "0:5:0" Driver "nv" Identifier "Device[0]" Screen 0 VendorName "NVidia" EndSection
Is absence of "HWCursor" the same as "HWCursor" "off". In SuSE, Yast builds this file. There is an "options" button where I can select "HWCusor" which adds "HWCursor" to the Device section. Is the driver default "HWCusor" so that I need to explicitly edit xorg.conf and add "HWCursor" "off"?
Yes, you must explicitly add that line to disable HWCursor. The default value, which is used if the line is not present, is "On". For more information, see the man page of the nv driver: man nv
Thanks Marcelo for the help. I've added that parameter. [end kde-linux response] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:43 -0800, Richard Pace wrote:
Hi: Running SuSE 10.2 on HP Pavilion AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+.
My mouse pointer disappears every so often. The mouse is still working, so to speak - I just can't see it. Using keyboard controls I have tried changing personal settings in KDE to a new mouse scheme. That does not help. Even restarting KDE does not help. So far, only a reboot restores the mouse pointer.
Do you use a KVM? if so <Ctrl><alt>F1 then <Ctrl><alt>F7. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 1/29/07, Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv@myrealbox.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:43 -0800, Richard Pace wrote:
Hi: Running SuSE 10.2 on HP Pavilion AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+.
My mouse pointer disappears every so often. The mouse is still working, so to speak - I just can't see it. Using keyboard controls I have tried changing personal settings in KDE to a new mouse scheme. That does not help. Even restarting KDE does not help. So far, only a reboot restores the mouse pointer.
Do you use a KVM? if so <Ctrl><alt>F1 then <Ctrl><alt>F7.
What happens when you do this Carl? -- I have seen the future and I'm not in it! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 22:43 -0800, Dog Walker wrote:
On 1/29/07, Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv@myrealbox.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:43 -0800, Richard Pace wrote:
Hi: Running SuSE 10.2 on HP Pavilion AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+.
My mouse pointer disappears every so often. The mouse is still working, so to speak - I just can't see it. Using keyboard controls I have tried changing personal settings in KDE to a new mouse scheme. That does not help. Even restarting KDE does not help. So far, only a reboot restores the mouse pointer.
Do you use a KVM? if so <Ctrl><alt>F1 then <Ctrl><alt>F7.
What happens when you do this Carl?
Forces the software to poll the hardware and find the mouse. KVM have sometimes lost the mouse so rather than reboot you force the focus to konsole by F1 then back to X by F7. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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