Bug 94879 - mouse cursor disappears after screen locking (Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller)
Summary: mouse cursor disappears after screen locking (Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics...
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/intel (show other bugs)
Version: git
Hardware: Other All
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Assignee: Chris Wilson
QA Contact: Intel GFX Bugs mailing list
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Reported: 2016-04-09 15:39 UTC by Hanno Böck
Modified: 2019-11-27 13:44 UTC (History)
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Description Hanno Böck 2016-04-09 15:39:01 UTC
On my system the mouse cursor disappears if I lock the screen and unlock it again. The GPU, according to lspci, is:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)

This is a Gentoo system, that currently uses a snapshot of the xf86-video-intel driver (from 20160407). This bug also appears with the latest git code from today. It does not appear if I downgrade to 2.99.917.

I tried to git-bisect the commit that introduced this bug, but it was impossible, because most of the time the driver simply wouldn't compile.

The screen locker I'm using is light-locker, started by a combination of lxde and lightdm. The way it works is - as far as I know - that the screen gets locked on console 7, a new X instance gets started on console 8 and that shows the passwort prompt. So I assume this happens somehow related to the switching between different X instances. Interestingly the mouse cursor is still there on the password prompt.
Comment 1 Chris Wilson 2016-04-09 18:24:15 UTC
Using xorg-server-1.18.2? When it doesn't compile (because X changed its headers?) use git bisect skip.
Comment 2 Hanno Böck 2016-04-09 18:29:02 UTC
xorg-server 1.18.3.

The compilation errors were of different kind, some of them related to pixman, some seemed to be missing includes (used function fstat without including the appropriate headers).
Comment 3 Andrey Vihrov 2016-04-12 13:41:38 UTC
Possibly related: bug #94677
Comment 4 Hanno Böck 2016-04-15 13:36:16 UTC
Yep, seems to be the same as #94677, if I reverse-patch the commit b04767c84deafc44993723add4b1c5163fc11711 the problem disappears.
Comment 5 Martin Peres 2019-11-27 13:44:02 UTC
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