Losing mouse pointer in non-Kubuntu KDE system

[shawn wilson]

maybe post to the xorg dev list and see if they can help (i'm thinking it's
an xserver issue rather than kde). i am doubting it's a configuration issue
and it's definitely not a new issue (as, like i said, i've had the issue a
few years ago). i do think it has to do with usb hardware (and i think my
issue was on a p4 via board - might have the manual around for model if
interested). this is fixable in software since restarting the x server does
the trick.

you might want to google around and figure out how to increase the verbosity
of your x logs before you ask and save the logs from a few minutes before
you put your computer to sleep and (before you put the computer to sleep)
start a console with tail -f <log> and wait until you aren't seeing anything
unimpressive, drop down to command line and tail that stuff to another file.
that way you have something decent to ask with.

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:

> On 11/5/2010 1:48 PM, Ryan G wrote:
> >   On 11/01/2010 06:55 AM, shawn wilson wrote:
> >> i too have experienced the issue - about 8 years ago on kde on a
> >> debian install. my only solution was to reset the x server
> >> (ctrl+alt+bs) and it would work as soon as the server came back up.
> >> also, x was fine - i could still type and all, just no pointer.
> >>
> >> this was before devfs / udev and i'm pretty sure i was on psaux and
> >> not usb. i was never able to 'solve' the problem or get a solution
> >> that i was happy with - getting the pointer back without killing x.
> >> so, if you find something please post - i'm really curious.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Jerry Lapham <rjlapham at gmail.com
> >> <mailto:rjlapham at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     On Sunday, October 31, 2010 02:39:44 am Nils Kassube wrote:
> >>
> >>     > Doug wrote:
> >>     ...
> >>     > > Every so often, I wake the
> >>     > > system up and the mouse pointer is missing, and so far as I
> know,
> >>     > > the mouse is non-functional.
> >>     ...
> >>     >
> >>     > Anyway, if you are talking about a USB mouse, you could try to
> >>     unplug
> >>     > the mouse instead of a terminal command. After you replug it, it
> >>     should
> >>     > work again.
> >>
> >>     Also works with a PS/2 mouse.
> >>
> >>     -Jerry
> >>     =============================================
> >>     Jerry Lapham
> >>     Monroe, OH 45050
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> > Do you mean you lost the cursor style or the mouse pointer is completely
> > gone?
> >
> >
> I mean that the mouse pointer is completely gone.  I have not seen any
> sign that it is still there but invisible--i.e., icons showing a sign
> of something passing over--but I might have missed that.
>
> I followed the advice of someone I found somewhere--I've lost track, by
> now--and inserted the line
>
>        "HWCursor" "off"
>
> into Section "Device" in xorg.conf, but it did no good at all. The very
> next time the system was awakened from hibernation, the mouse was gone.
>
> I missed the advice to ctrl-alt-bs.  I'll try that.  I haven't tried
> disconnecting the mouse and plugging it back in, since it involves
> crawling on the floor behind the computer. If the ctrl-alt-bs doesn't
> work, when I next go behind the machine, I'll move the mouse to the
> front jack.
>
> Of course, I'd really like a s/w fix that would solve the problem
> permanently.
>
> For some reason, the problem has never happened on the laptop, the
> machine on which I'm going to have to try *again* to install a new OS
> version. (Obviously because I could very easily try removing and
> replacing the usb connection!)
>
> --doug
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