Vanishing Mouse After Xrandr

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:04:49 -0500, Jason Van Patten <jvp at lateapex.net> wrote:
> Anyone?  Help?
> 

well, I've never seen this myself, so I'm not quite sure what the
problem is.  using a SW cursor should work around the problem until
someone can reproduce it.
Option "HWCursor" "false"

Alex

> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Vanishing Mouse After Xrandr
> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:05:54 -0500
> From: Jason Van Patten <jvp at lateapex.net>
> Reply-To: jvp at lateapex.net
> To: xserver at lists.freedesktop.org,  xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> 
> Hi folks -
> 
> I routinely use xrandr (through KDE) to resize the X screen on my laptop,
> when I dock it or de-dock it.  Every so often, after resizing it down to
> 1600x1200 (from either 1920x1440 or 2048x1536) my mouse pointer vanishes.
> KDE still sort-of responds to a moving mouse because the panel at the bottom
> of the screen appears when I move the mouse (or the imaginary one) down.
> 
> But, I can't get any of the windows into focus.  Nor can I click on
> anything.  Nor do I have any sort of keyboard input other than
> CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE.  Once I restart the server, all is well.
> 
> Is there any set of logs or diags I can get for you guys the next time it
> happens?  I can't reproduce it at will, but I figure it'll happen again
> within the next few days.
> 
> Hardware: IBM Thinkpad T42p with ATI FireGL T2
> Software: Fedora Core 3 / Xorg 6.8.1.
> 
> The xorg.conf follows, if it's at all interesting:
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>          Identifier     "single head configuration"
>          Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>          InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>          InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>          InputDevice    "Synaptics" "AlwaysCore"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Files"
> 
>          RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
>          FontPath     "unix/:7100"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Module"
>          Load  "dbe"
>          Load  "extmod"
>          Load  "fbdevhw"
>          Load  "glx"
>          Load  "record"
>          Load  "freetype"
>          Load  "type1"
>          Load  "synaptics"
>          Load  "dri"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 
>          Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>          Driver      "kbd"
>          Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>          Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>          Identifier  "Mouse0"
>          Driver      "mouse"
>          Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>          Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>          Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>          Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>          Identifier  "Synaptics"
>          Driver      "synaptics"
>          Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>          Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
>          Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>          Identifier   "Monitor0"
>          VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>          ModelName    "LCD Panel 1600x1200"
>          DisplaySize  410        300
>          HorizSync    30.0 - 130.0
>          VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
>          Option      "dpms" "off"
>          Modeline "2048x1536"  340.48  2048 2216 2440 2832  1536 1537 1540
> 1603 -hsync +vsync
>          Modeline "1920x1440"  341.35  1920 2072 2288 2656  1440 1441 1444
> 1512 -hsync +vsync
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>          Identifier  "Videocard0"
>          Driver      "radeon"
>          VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>          BoardName   "ATI FireGL Mobility T2"
>          Option      "SubPixelOrder" "NONE"
>          Option      "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,CRT"
>          Option      "MergedFB" "TRUE"
>          Option      "MetaModes" "1600x1200-2048x1536 1600x1200-1920x1440
> 1600x1200-1600x1200"
>          Option      "CRT2Position" "Clone"
>          Option      "CRT2HSync" "30.0-130.0"
>          Option      "CRT2VRefresh" "50.0-160.0"
>          Option      "DynamicClocks" "TRUE"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>          Identifier "Screen0"
>          Device     "Videocard0"
>          Monitor    "Monitor0"
>          DefaultDepth     24
>          SubSection "Display"
>                  Viewport   0 0
>                  Depth     16
>                  Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
>          EndSubSection
>          SubSection "Display"
>                  Viewport   0 0
>                  Virtual 2048 1536
>                  Depth     24
>                  Modes     "2048x1536" "1920x1440" "1600x1200" "1280x1024"
> "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>          EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Section "DRI"
>          Group        0
>          Mode         0666
> EndSection
> 
> --
> Jason Van Patten
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