I have noticed the pasts few weeks the mouse cursor freezes whenever I watch youtube videos in chrome. I am running the same Chrome version in Debian Sid and it doesn't happen when I am running that distro. The mouse cursor remains in one place but as I move the mouse around I can see that it's hovering over other things.
This is happening with a wireless/keyboard/mouse combo, but it also happened with a regular keyboard/mouse combo so I don't think it's wireless related.
Has anyone encountered this problem. I am running the latest kernel vmlinuz-3.12.6-200.fc19.i686 and the system is updated.
It's a Dell Optiplex 745 with 2 gigs with stock Intel Video Maybe it's a flash problem ???
Thanks
On 12/26/2013 01:16 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
The mouse cursor remains in one place but as I move the mouse around I can see that it's hovering over other things.
So it's only the pointer that stops moving, while the computer "knows" that the mouse is in a different position, right? Have you tried clicking on something while this is going on, to see if the computer reacts properly to it? If it does, we'll have limited the issue to whatever it is that puts the pointer on the screen.
On 26/12/13 04:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/26/2013 01:16 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
The mouse cursor remains in one place but as I move the mouse around I can see that it's hovering over other things.
So it's only the pointer that stops moving, while the computer "knows" that the mouse is in a different position, right? Have you tried clicking on something while this is going on, to see if the computer reacts properly to it? If it does, we'll have limited the issue to whatever it is that puts the pointer on the screen.
Yes. the cursor is stuck while it's still sending the proper info to the computer. If I click on something the computer does the "right" thing...changes videos or whatever. But even if I shutdown Chrome the mouse cursor remains frozen, and if I get out out of the desktop, the graphics screen of lightdm is totally corrupted. Then a reboot is the only way to restore things. Sounds like a video problem to me. I switched Chrome from its internal flash to the latest adobe flash but there is no change.
On 26/12/13 06:13 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
On 26/12/13 04:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/26/2013 01:16 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
The mouse cursor remains in one place but as I move the mouse around I can see that it's hovering over other things.
So it's only the pointer that stops moving, while the computer "knows" that the mouse is in a different position, right? Have you tried clicking on something while this is going on, to see if the computer reacts properly to it? If it does, we'll have limited the issue to whatever it is that puts the pointer on the screen.
Yes. the cursor is stuck while it's still sending the proper info to
the computer. If I click on something the computer does the "right" thing...changes videos or whatever. But even if I shutdown Chrome the mouse cursor remains frozen, and if I get out out of the desktop, the graphics screen of lightdm is totally corrupted. Then a reboot is the only way to restore things. Sounds like a video problem to me. I switched Chrome from its internal flash to the latest adobe flash but there is no change.
Also discovered it doesn't happen when I am logged in on another account on this machine. And that account uses compiz !