Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 01:10:35 HST From: osp@aloha.com To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broken Mouse Pointer Message-ID: <200812091110.mB9BAZcF021669@yoda.pixi.com>
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Re: > I just installed Gnome on FreeBSD 7.1 beta and have a problem with my mouse > pointer. Most of the time it displays as a translucent rectangle of randomly > placed pixels, with the upper-left corner the "hot spot." It moves with the > mouse, and sometimes as it passes over a widget it looks normal, but > eventually it goes back to a pixel swarm. I have not discovered a clear > pattern but it seems as though system widgets like a maximize button or a > menu trigger the swarm. > > I also see what I assume is another instance of this problem, only this one > does not involve the mouse. After switching to the console with Ctrl-Alt-F1, > going back to my X session with Ctrl-Alt-F9 produces a screen of pixel noise > garbage for five or ten seconds, then the desktop appears normal. > > There are two special features about the build. I installed the gnome2 port > with make -DBATCH install clean, and there was a loss of power midway > through. When I restarted I got an error about a truncated toolkit.o file > under gtkmm, which I got past with a make clean and a make in the associated > port directory. > > So far I have deinstalled / reinstalled these ports: > > gtkmm-2.12.7_1 > gtk-2.12.11.1 > glib-2.16.5 > > Is there a quick fix for this? Do I need to reinstall Gnome? Is pkg_delete > gnome2-2.22.3 the best way to get rid of my current installation? > > -- > Gary Dunn, Honolulu > osp at aloha.com > http://openslate.net/ > http://e9erust.blogspot.com/ > Sent from a Newton 2100 via Mail V This morning I decided to reinstall Gnome, this time without the -DBATCH switch. The result: no improvement. First I used the command from the web site, modified for my newer version: pkg_deinstall -Rf x11/gnome2-2.22.3 Next I did a portsnap. When I executed make install from /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 I saw python and perl being fetched. I thought I still had all of the tarballs. Two or three times the build stopped because something was missing. Each time I just went to that port, did a make - make deinstall - make reinstall - make clean sequence, then returned to the Gnome build. It turned out I did have most of the tarballs, so maybe the new downloads were the result of the portsnap. Like I said, the bug is still there. Could this be an X bug? -- Gary Dunn, Honolulu osp at aloha.com http://openslate.net/ http://e9erust.blogspot.com/
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