On Saturday 05 December 2015 15:52:13 Brian wrote: > On Sat 05 Dec 2015 at 12:38:38 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > Fresh Jessie installation about a week ago, TDE added last night. > > Normally using startx rather than any DM, but DM when used, has no > > pointer either.. Mouse could be used to select and click, but no way > > to tell where pointer was until it hovered something that changes on > > hover. Same problem in IceWM. I have other machines that use this > > same Intel 945G/ICH7 chipset, so it's hard to imagine why this is > > needed here but not elsewhere, nor in openSUSE 13.1/KDE4 nor > > openSUSE Leap/IceWM nor Mageia 5/KDE4 on same machine. I've never > > before on any post-XFree86 installation needed to turn off HWCursor. > > Naturally as the problem is same in IceWM, this must be a Jessie > > problem, not a TDE or hardware problem. Any ideas on how to > > eliminate need for disabling HWCursor? > > Did the pointer work before you added TDE (whatever that is)? Its a fork of KDE-3.5, with a huge list of bugs fixed.
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