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alex130

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Registered: 2012-08-30

Posts: 1

Update to nvidia 304.x - Mouse detected but frozen

I updated my system to the latest Nvidia drivers

local/lib32-nvidia-utils 304.43-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries. (32-bit)
local/nvidia 304.43-1
    NVIDIA drivers for linux.
local/nvidia-utils 304.43-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries.

when using the older 302.x Nvidia drivers, gpm at login, and then X both works. When switching to a 304.x Nvidia driver, nothing happens with gpm, and in X, the mouse stays visible, centered, and frozen.

I checked the X logs and xinput, and the mouse seems detected and shown as loaded/working, nothing unusual.
I tried downgrading other packages (linux kernel, going from testing to stable, ...), with no effect, so it seems to be caused by the nvidia driver alone.

Anything I may be missing ? I also tried posting on archlinuxfr forum, with no luck (I am told to downgrade nvidia, which also downgrades the linux kernel. I get errors when I downgrade now.)

Last edited by alex130 (2012-08-31 10:44:07)