Mouse cursor disappears while moving in Wine window

higgins · Post by **higgins** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:17 pm

Hi all!

Using 64-bit Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and Wine 1.1.23. Until a week ago, everything worked fine for me, but from that on mouse cursor started disappearing when moving in Wine window. More precisely, it turns "invisible". It still works, but I can't see the cursor. I believe no systemwide changes were made to the system (the user doesn't add apps by herself nor uses terminal).

I'm trying to run two games. Fish Tycoon and Plant Tycoon. Both worked fine until this issue came up.

I found an old thead with similar problem: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10026

But when I added the line
Option "SWCursor" "true"
into the xorg.conf "Devices" section and rebooted for the effect to show, the cursor became invisible SYSTEMWIDE, only sometimes showing up at random, so, I changed it back.

I'm at loss here. Here's my xorg.conf if that's needed:

Code: Select all

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    Monitor        "Configured Monitor"
    Device        "Configured Video Device"
    DefaultDepth    24
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load    "glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
    Driver    "nvidia"
    Option    "NoLogo"    "True"
EndSection

I also created a thread in ubuntuforums but the thread never got any useful responses there. I entered some commands what I was recommended to, but those didn't change anything. Anyways the thread is here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7425962

Mouse works fine in Notepad however, but I never tried that before entering the two commands recommended in the ubuntuforums thread.

Any help appreciated.

higgins · Post by **higgins** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:43 am

Anyone?

Post by **dimesio** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:25 am

According to the bug report you linked to, that was a problem with the Openchrome driver for VIA/S3G graphics chipsets, but the xorg.conf you posted says your driver is nVidia.

So what graphics card/driver are you really using, and have there been any recent automatic updates to it?

higgins · Post by **higgins** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:30 am

I use an nVidia video card. As if there's been any automatic updates... where do I see that?

Post by **dimesio** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:43 am

higgins wrote:I use an nVidia video card. As if there's been any automatic updates... where do I see that?

I can't help you with that, as I don't use Ubuntu. Ask on the Ubuntu forums. An update you weren't aware of (probably to the graphics driver) is the most likely cause of the kind of sudden change you're describing.

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:59 am

Actually, my Eee PC with an Intel 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller and Ubuntu occasionally does this - but only on the "this application has crashed" window, and only occasionally.

higgins · Post by **higgins** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:22 am

As I've now found out, I have an nVidia GeForce 6600 (256MB) graphics card. I installed nVidia graphics driver v96 (as opposed to the v173 and v180 also available) and the games work now. I only hope that the change didn't affect anything else.