On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 14:23, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:23:23PM -0700, Mark Elam wrote:
I often see random loss of the mouse cursor, which results in having to restart X. (really pisses the engineers off) I cannot seem to track down why this is happening. Nothing in any logs give any clue to what is happening. I thought it may have to do with VMware, as this is installed on 80% of these machines, and most of the time it happened when users were using Vmware. But recently I have seen the problem on machines without VMware running or even installed.
I have seen this happening on other distros too. I tracked town 2 reasons:
- Bugs on X11. Usually going to text mode and back to graphical solves it.
- Some conflics with ide-cd/cdrom kernel modules. Again, unloading those modules will give your mouse back
It doesn't happen very often. Actually, I only saw it happening on 2 notebooks, so it might be related to some buggy chipset.
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Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@suespammers.org "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)
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Interesting... I will try to unload the modules for the cdrom and see what happens next time.
Thanks!