Description of problem: Rebooted system after glibc update and mouse active but its cursor is invisible. At least I get a visual indication where the mouse is hovering... However, if I "Switch User" and login as user2, I do have a mouse cursor. WEIRD: Mouse visibility follows userid.., While user2 is active, mouse is visible. Switch user gives kdm WITHOUT mouse cursor Enter password --> no mouse cursor. Braille my way to Switch User. Get kdm WITH mouse cursor. Enter user2 password --> OK I can switch back and forth, and the mouse cursor visibility for user1=off and user2=on every time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always. Bug survives reboot. Steps to Reproduce: 1. No idea what triggered this. All was OK before rebooting for updates. 2. 3. I will attach the RPM changes since the last reboot on April 9...
Created attachment 7877 [details] Package changes to system since last reboot
In mcc, disabled "Use hardware accelerated mouse pointer" which added: Option "SWCursor" to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and rebooted. I now have visible cursor. xorg.conf still contains "SWCursor"; but mcc still shows: [x] Use hardware accelerated mouse pointer Something appears out of sync...
This is most likely a duplicate of bug 15623, which was only reported by users with KDM/KDE @ Pierre I think you mentioned some things here that no one mentioned yet, feel free to add that to bug 15623 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 15623 ***
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => marja11Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE
Interesting.... brand new Dell Inspiron 3558 arrived today, installed mga5 and have no mouse cursor. Login and braille my way to: a) turn off mouse HW accel b) new session and surprise, I have a mouse cursor on the second session. Switch user and select original user --> no mouse cursor. Unable to see any mouse activity; but did try Windows+Ctrl keys which give the mouse finder, allowing me to see mouse cursor location. Added a 3rd user which works... So... it appears the mouse is not visible on :0 but works on :1 & :2... Re-opening this bug because the information about the problem is more concise.
Status: RESOLVED => REOPENEDResolution: DUPLICATE => (none)
(In reply to Pierre Fortin from comment #4) > Interesting.... brand new Dell Inspiron 3558 arrived today, installed mga5 > and have no mouse cursor. Login and braille my way to: > a) turn off mouse HW accel > b) new session > and surprise, I have a mouse cursor on the second session. > Switch user and select original user --> no mouse cursor. > Unable to see any mouse activity; but did try Windows+Ctrl keys which give > the mouse finder, allowing me to see mouse cursor location. > Added a 3rd user which works... > > So... it appears the mouse is not visible on :0 but works on :1 & :2... > > Re-opening this bug because the information about the problem is more > concise. @ neoclust Assigning to you then. Pierre means "more concise than in bug 15623"
Assignee: bugsquad => mageia
Right. Stating the now obvious for those looking for any solution: Adding Option "SWCursor" to /etc/X11/xorg.conf is a workaround. Since displays :1 & :2 work, it appears HW accel triggers this bug on display:0 which is what most users limit themselves to...
Assignee: mageia => kde
Hi Pierre, Thank you for having taken the needed time to report this issue! We regret if this issue didn't get fixed. Closing as OLD, because Mageia 5 has officially reached its End of Life on December 31st, 2017 https://blog.mageia.org/en/2017/11/07/mageia-5-eol-postponed/ It only continued to get important security updates since then, but non-security bugs have no chance of still getting fixed. Marja
Status: REOPENED => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => OLD