On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 19:29 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
I've had a problem with X in f12 or some time that sees the mouse pointer freezing. I'm now having the same issue in f11.
I'm happy to file a bug in bugzilla, but I'm hoping someone mught be able to point me in the right direction.
After some time after running X the mouse pointer will freeze. Switching to a VT doesn't help, but I can use the keyboard to close apps and do a little navigation. Also pushing the power button will see a dialog to allow me to shutdown, suspend, etc. I can suspend and resume and this fixes the problem.
I'm not however convinced that it's an X bug. I think it might be related to bluetooth (I believe that my mouse and keyboard have something to do with bluetooth on this laptop) and that the suspend resume cycle restarts bluetooth and fixes the problem.
You could verify this with "DISPLAY=:0 xinput list" when the mouse pointer stops. If you don't see the bluetooth mouse in the list, then the kernel is refusing to re-plug it right. If you _do_ see the mouse in the list, then X is confused somewhere.
Does keyboard navigation still work when this happens? Does alt-tab switch windows, etc.
- ajax