Cursor Leaves a Trail of Cursors as it Moves

**Yellow Pasque** · July 11th, 2013

So you're using a TNT2 (nvidia nv05) and the open-source nouveau driver. I didn't see any matching bugs: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist...u&product=xorg

I would try to turn off cursor acceleration. Make an /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the following contents:

Code:

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Configured Video Device"
        Option "HWCursor" "false"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Default Screen"
        Monitor "Configured Monitor"
        Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
#trailing line

Log out after you make it to restart X.

**maglax** · July 12th, 2013

Okay thank you Temujin. I will try that as well and post if that does not work.
As an note of the driver update: Gateway no longer supports my computer (my computer has a 10 digit serial number Gateway now asks for 11 -____-)

**maglax** · July 12th, 2013

After Attempting that code it cause my Xserver to crash. -___- I suspect that is not good. Could I have typed something wrong?
I am going go to recovery from my install disk to reset it.

**maglax** · July 13th, 2013

Interesting, interesting, interesting! After a reinstall it worked!
Note: changes written to disks were the os and swap space.
Note: one drive contains root the other contains /home.
Thank you Temujin and also TNFrank for all your help!
Marking as Solved!

**maglax** · July 13th, 2013

Update: I now know what cause it to do this. It was the software update. Is there a patch I can use to fix this?

**Yellow Pasque** · July 13th, 2013

It was the software update.

Which one? Kernel update?

**maglax** · July 13th, 2013

security updates: a few Linux kernel items Lubuntu base
Other updates: software and updates
software updater
synaptic package manager
lubuntu base

Ask me if you need to know which kernel items or packages contained in one of those. I did not list everything under those packages because of the amount of items.

**Yellow Pasque** · July 14th, 2013

I'm not really sure what to tell you then. If you could figure out which update does it, that would help. The first thing I would try is booting the old kernel. If it's still doing it, file a bug against xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

**maglax** · July 14th, 2013

ok I will install the kernel updates one by one

**maglax** · July 14th, 2013

Okay all the kernel updates have been installed (none of which yielding problems) and I'm looking at the X ones are there any keywords I should look for?