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  1. Bug #583760
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Comment 4 for bug 583760

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Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote : Re: Mouse cursor dissappears with nouveau

I get this problem on a regular basis. Several times a day. It requires a full reboot to reset.

I am running 10.10 on a Thinkpad T410 with an external monitor. The mouse cursor disappears from the built-in display on the laptop but continues to appear on the external monitor. The mouse does, in fact, work on the built-in display but is invisible.

there is nothing abnormal in the Xorg.0.oog, but dmesg always has the following.

[ 8319.721137] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: EvoCh 0 Mthd 0x0000 Data 0x00000400 (0x0002 0x01)
[ 8607.947182] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while hiding cursor
[ 8608.059054] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while hiding cursor
[ 8611.209928] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: no space while hiding cursor
(this last line is repeated zillions of times).

This bug has also been reported in Fedora <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537065>. That bug has a workaround kernel patch included <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=457771&action=diff>.