Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-22 Thread Chen Wei
.0.2? or sooner maybe? > > > You are several upgrades behind the current, stable virtualbox. > Possibly you didn't change your sources.list entry back in November - > else you would be running 4.x vb. > > > > > > > --- On *Mon,

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Steven Sciame
guson Subject: Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, March 21, 2011, 10:58 PM On 22/03/11 14:12, Steven Sciame wrote: > > > I could try that, but I am a little nervous wandering away from a > "stable" system

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
guson > Subject: Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, March 21, 2011, 8:41 PM > > On 22/03/11 12:30, Chen Wei wrote: > > hi Steven, since the VirtualBox 3.2 cannot built its

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Steven Sciame
ote: From: Scott Ferguson Subject: Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, March 21, 2011, 8:41 PM On 22/03/11 12:30, Chen Wei wrote: > hi Steven, since the VirtualBox 3.2 cannot built its module on 2.6.38 > source, follow th

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/11 12:30, Chen Wei wrote: > hi Steven, since the VirtualBox 3.2 cannot built its module on 2.6.38 > source, follow the instruction in "Debian Linux Kernel Handbook", I > rebuild the 2.6.34.7 kernel. It is quite strait forward and works, the > result kernel is also smaller than default kern

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Chen Wei
* wrote: > > > From: Chen Wei > Subject: Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, March 21, 2011, 4:31 AM > > after build a vanilla 2.6.38 kernel, the mouse pointer is finally back. >

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:52:37 -0400 (EDT), Wayne Topa wrote: > > The only off list message I sent was to inform the OP about the > Debian COC regarding sending me a copy. I guess I was confused by the multiple consecutive posts by the OP with no intervening replies. I was assuming that someone was

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Steven Sciame
: Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, March 21, 2011, 11:52 AM On 03/20/2011 09:29 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:28:11 -0400 (EDT), Wayne Topa wrote: >> >> That seems to be your prob

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Steven Sciame
I think you are correct Chen.  On the following thread they found it to be the kernel too: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=61447 --- On Mon, 3/21/11, Chen Wei wrote: From: Chen Wei Subject: Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME To: debian-

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Wayne Topa
On 03/20/2011 09:29 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:28:11 -0400 (EDT), Wayne Topa wrote: That seems to be your problem, gpm is not installed. As I do not use gnome this may not be required but the only way I can get a mouse to work is by installing the gpm package and configur

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Chen Wei
ei //* wrote: >> >> >> From: Chen Wei >> Subject: Re: Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 >> in GNOME >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Date: Sunday, March 20, 2011, 9:02 PM >> >> I have the s

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Chen Wei
ouse pointer reappearing. I found that to > be the case here too. > > --- On *Sun, 3/20/11, Chen Wei //* wrote: > > > From: Chen Wei > Subject: Re: Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 > in GNOME > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >

Re: Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Steven Sciame
Yes Chen, that is correct.  Either Suspending or Hibernating followed by the wake-up results in the mouse pointer reappearing.  I found that to be the case here too. --- On Sun, 3/20/11, Chen Wei wrote: From: Chen Wei Subject: Re: Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in

Re: Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Chen Wei
I have the same problem after upgrade to Debian 6.0.1 yesterday. Try suspend and wake up then the mouse point become visible. My video card is intel 855GME. The package been upgrade as follow: base-files_6.0squeeze1_i386.deb console-setup_1.68+squeeze2_all.deb desktop-base_6.0.5squeeze1_all.deb ge

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:28:11 -0400 (EDT), Wayne Topa wrote: > > That seems to be your problem, gpm is not installed. > > As I do not use gnome this may not be required but the only way I can > get a mouse to work is by installing the gpm package and configuring it. It would seem that some of th

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Wayne Topa
On 03/20/2011 06:46 PM, Steven Sciame wrote: teven@debtop:~$ aptitude show gpm Package: gpm State: not installed Version: 1.20.4-3.3 Priority: optional Section: misc Maintainer: Debian GPM Team Uncompressed Size: 557 k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libgpm2 (>= 1.20.4), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0,

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Steven Sciame
teven@debtop:~$ aptitude show gpm Package: gpm State: not installed Version: 1.20.4-3.3 Priority: optional Section: misc Maintainer: Debian GPM Team Uncompressed Size: 557 k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libgpm2 (>= 1.20.4), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, dpkg (>=

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Steven Sciame
that way.  --- On Sun, 3/20/11, Steven Sciame wrote: From: Steven Sciame Subject: Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, March 20, 2011, 2:20 PM If I Suspend the laptop and then wake it back up, then the invisible mouse

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Steven Sciame
ouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, March 20, 2011, 12:05 PM Hello,    I hope this is the correct place to continue my search for how to turn the mouse pointer back on after upgrading to 6.0.1    It was working perfectly the

mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Steven Sciame
Hello,    I hope this is the correct place to continue my search for how to turn the mouse pointer back on after upgrading to 6.0.1    It was working perfectly then I rebooted after the upgrade. Ever since then I have had no mouse pointer.  Changing the themes has no effect.  I am using GNOME.