Hi Patrik, I managed to get the proper resolution even with vesa. It doesn't help with the cursor but here are the steps:
*I increased the monitor frequency settings and now the vesa driver is able to find a suiteable one. I don't know whether it is a normal vesa mode but my graphic card contains some valid modes which I can see e.g. in grub: vbemodes (or similar). Strange that a LCD monitor still requires a frequency range!?? * First I tried to specify the modeline used in the framebuffer mode which I obtained with fbset -x. Nevertheless the vesa driver fails to recognise this mode "(no mode of this name)". A bug? * All this I did without gma500_gfx kernel module. Once I load it the display flickers again so I do not like it. But it seems that I'm able to suspend with pm-suspend only with this module. Without, the display never wakes up and stays off after resume. I tried also various --quirk-* options without gma500_gfx for suspend. * After loading gma500_gfx (and possible resume from suspend state) I find also modesettings options in the X log file. Yes, you're right. I have a nice orange Sony Vaio P device (VPCP11S1E) :-) ** Attachment added: "Updated x config file" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1187427/+attachment/3766475/+files/xorg.conf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1187427 Title: Mouse cursor invisible Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hi all, I have a problem with my mouse cursor in X, it is invisible. In the login manager such as gdm or kdm it is still visible but as soon as I log in into Kde or Gnome it vanishs. The problem exists also with Fvwm2. The problem occurred after upgrading from version 12.10 to 13.04. I tried xsetroot -cursor-name trek, this works at least in Fvwm2 which is now my default window manager. With "it works" I mean that I'm able to see the cursor in front of the desktop background but not in front of all application windows. In xterm the cursor is invisible, what is working is xclock and the gtk application gucharmap. Also firefox and similar applications are not usable. As a workaround I start a vnc server and connect to it. I'm not able to use Kde or Gnome but at least Fvwm2 works there more or less. I have a notebook consisting of a GMA500 graphic chip from Intel. Changing the kernel (as reported to work for a similar bug with the i915 driver) does not help. Currently I'm using 3.8.0-22 but I tried also much older ones. The used driver is currently vesa, fbdev has the same trouble. I tried to play with xorg options such as SWCursor, HWCursor but it seems they are not supported any longer (e.g., "VESA(0) :Option "HWCursor" is not used"). I tried the most recent xorg stuff (daily snapshots) without no success. Now I started to revert xorg related packages back to 12.10. This worked flawlessly for xorg but because of too many dependecy problems it fails for libx11. Don't know of other software which could be responsible. Of course I also played with cursor themes in KDE and Gnome (at least Gnome is not friedly for keyboard users!!!) but no success. I have no ideas any more ... Help! Jens To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1187427/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
