On Sat 05 Dec 2015 at 23:38:32 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 05 December 2015 23:25:20 Brian wrote: > > On Sat 05 Dec 2015 at 17:56:14 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > > Brian composed on 2015-12-05 20:52 (UTC): > > > > 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 > > > > > > I don't remember whether I tried IceWM before installing TDE. I rarely > > > use anything other than [K,T]DE except to determine whether a problem > > > belongs to Xorg or [K,T]DE. > > > > You could start from scratch and refresh your memory. > > > > > > (whatever that is)? > > > > > > It's what KDE could have been: > > > https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Trinity_Desktop_Environment > > > > Ah; it's non-Debian. All the more reason to re-install Jessie and > > investigate. > > We'd love to be Debian. We are too short of money (for lots of > infrastructure) and developers quite to get there.
There is a RFP. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742958 Not that is of any help to the OP.
