Mouse Pointer gone after sleep mode

[Member rolfarius]

Hi,
again this problem: after resuming from suspend mode the mouse pointer doesn’t appear any more. It is active but invisible.
I had this problem always when the sleep mode by lid closing was not enabled yet (found the solution here in the forum , don’t remember the file). But after changing to sleep activ the problem was gone – but now it prevails again…
I am using am Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E-Series MOdel E-8310.

[Member Xecure]

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What things did you try? What things have you searched? What driver does your mouse use? Is it a mouse or a touchpad? What about some inxi -Fxz info? Can you relaunch the driver by reloading the kernel module (aka driver) from terminal?

Have you read this thread?
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/suspension-of-the-system-and-blocking-of-peripherals/

I wish I was all-seeing and all-knowing, so I would know exactly what you did, what you tried, what you searched, what your device is, etc. But I am not.
For people as limited as me, more info is always needed.

antiX Live system enthusiast.
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[Member rolfarius]

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Thanks @Xecure for the valuable link and your writing 🙂

The problem doesn’t appear again, it looks rather like a temporary hardware prob of my laptop.
It is 11 years old, kind of hardship tested by many journeys through India, now I live here for 18 month.
The climate is humid & dusty … and I don’t like to see how many dead ants and other tiny insects crawled inside 🙂

BTW I have modified the boot way once for faster booting with Lubuntu (although it might not be needed for antix)
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="video=SVIDEO-1:d quiet splash"

how would it look like, the syntax to add another boot modifier in GRUB_xxx ?

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”video=SVIDEO-1:d quiet splash, xxx”

just comma-separated ?

[Member Xecure]

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Dont use commas. Spaces are what is used to separate boot parameters.
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”video=SVIDEO-1:d quiet splash bootparameter1 bootparameter2=option”

rolfarius wrote:

The problem doesn’t appear again, it looks rather like a temporary hardware prob of my laptop.

Good news. I prefere these cases to the ones that are permanent and I cannot fix at all. Hopefully humidity and insects aren’t strong enought to break your computer.

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[Member rolfarius]

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To complement this: it is a problem of the lid switch which triggers suspend.
Sometimes it happened the laptop turned on even though the lid is still closed.
And than the mouse pointer is gone again (if the laptop turns on but not the screen)…
This can be solved by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then Ctrl-Alt-F7 and the cursor reappears.

Now I just tried sudo /usr/sbin/pm-suspend (have read this in a forum to create a shortcut – it works only with sudo).

But for my surprise now after entering the command it turns in suspend perfect but without asking for the password… and I am not working as root…
It is very good like this as I don’t want to type it always, but I wonder is that normal? How does it come?

• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by rolfarius.

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