Re: Mouse Dies after Xorg Goes to Sleep

Ditch Brodie <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm running FreeBSD-STABLE-amd64 on a new Gateway 4022 system with an
AMD64 2.4 Ghz cpu. I have xorg7.2 running and the graphics and fonts are
so beautiful it's hard to believe. There's just one problem. Whenever I
go away from the machine and xorg goes to sleep, the mouse is giving me
sporadic problems. The mouse pointer disappears. When I move my mouse I
can see the various windows in twm changing focus but there is no
pointer viewable on the screen. I can estimate where it might be and
even click and if I've guessed the right location I will get the desired
action. But the pointer is invisible. This same problem comes up when I
exit xorg and try to run it again. The only way I've found around this
is to reboot. Then it will work again until the machine sleeps. The
worst thing about this is it's sporadic or intermittent if that's the
better term. I left the machine alone all day today and when I returned
home from work it was still ok.

Any clues out there. Would I need to suspect the machine or is there per
chance an issue with xorg-7.2?

I also run AMD Athlon64 and I've had what may be the same problem with an
earlier release on 64-bit AMD OpenBSD 4.1. See if, when the mouse cursor
disappears, it is actually a *very* small right pointing cursor on the right
edge of your screen. If it is, and it moves only up and down as you move your
mouse in any direction, then try switching to a different (text mode)
virtual console and then switch back to the X console. If that brings your
cursor back, then we probably have the same bug.

I believe this is actually an exploit of X. Try clearing your cmos ram.

Dave Feustel--
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