xfce mouse cursor disapeared

nirk · 2010-09-17 10:56:59

hello

I have not used my arch laptop for quite some time and now the mouse cursor is missing.
I can use the mouse (move it & click) but have no visual cue.

thanks

karol · 2010-09-17 11:16:34

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20373 ?

nirk · 2010-09-17 12:01:49

Thanks,
so Its because the kernel version, who do I return to the older kernel version.

I would try to lookup for it before asking but without mouse its really anoying.

karol · 2010-09-17 12:07:48

If you didn't purge you package cache you still have the older versions in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ :

pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kernel26-2.6.34.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz

If you haven't updated for some time, and you have only e.g. .32 and .35 versions, you can download packages from http://arm.kh.nu/search/ and install them as usual.

nirk · 2010-09-17 17:39:17

thanks karol
got my cursor back ;-)

I downgraded to kernel 2.6.33, cause it was the latest one I had in my cache. BTW how do I purge the cache? I got 1.5GB of cache on my tiny HD...

karol · 2010-09-17 17:47:57

nirk wrote:

I downgraded to kernel 2.6.33, cause it was the latest one I had in my cache. BTW how do I purge the cache? I got 1.5GB of cache on my tiny HD...

'man pacman' holds lots of weird and wonderful things :-) See what 'pacman -Sc' does.

nirk · 2010-09-17 20:14:06

thank again,
I don't feel secure enough to try out thing from the man pages when I deal with pacman or other important system tools.

I should have looked for a manual on that topic on the internet...

karol · 2010-09-17 20:23:13

nirk wrote:

thank again,
I don't feel secure enough to try out thing from the man pages when I deal with pacman or other important system tools.
I should have looked for a manual on that topic on the internet...

Ummm, no, actually you should have typed 'man pacman' and read that manual once or twice. If you're not satisfied, there's a wiki with a lot of pacman-related stuff.
Everything that removes or otherwise permanently alters your data can be dangerous.

nirk · 2010-09-17 20:34:29

you are probably right, Its just I'm scared to mess up something. so I'd rather to get some help from someone how knows better then me.

while my cursor was gone, I had "kslowd" running on my computer.
what is that (couldn't find anything useful on that), it was the most time consuming process.
now with the older kernel its gone.

gorky · 2010-09-17 20:45:16

nirk wrote:

while my cursor was gone, I had "kslowd" running on my computer.
what is that (couldn't find anything useful on that), it was the most time consuming process.
now with the older kernel its gone.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=kslowd

nirk · 2010-09-17 22:15:05

thanks seems like a great site...

I did that search, couldn't figure out what they are talking about. and what kslowd is doing, besides misbehaving.

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