Mouse trapped in taskbar

[dibl]

Re: Mouse trapped in taskbar

Those messages indicate that the nVidia driver is NOT installed. Something went wrong during your attempt to install it.

[rbrown3rd]

Re: Mouse trapped in taskbar

I'll go through the process again. Thanks for your patience.

[rbrown3rd]

Re: Mouse trapped in taskbar

Went through the process again step by step. Interestingly, this time when I booted the system the strange mouse gravity problem has returned and now it is being drawn diagonally from upper right to lower left. Now it is so fast that I cannot even click as the buttons go by. I would just reformat the drive and load from scratch but it is a dual boot machine with Windows XP on the other partition. This is driving me nuts.

The bottom line is that I get the same error message as before indicating that the driver has not been loaded but when I go through the process of installing the driver everything loads with successful messages after each step including the final step.

[muzicman0]

Re: Mouse trapped in taskbar

just FYI, the Kubuntu installer will give you the option to format just the '/' partition, and grub *should* pick up the windows install, so the dual boot should work. Most of the time, I'm probably too quick to reinstall, but then again, I don't spend days trying to fix a problem either!

mm0

[dibl]

Re: Mouse trapped in taskbar

Went through the process again step by step. Interestingly, this time when I booted the system the strange mouse gravity problem has returned and now it is being drawn diagonally from upper right to lower left. Now it is so fast that I cannot even click as the buttons go by. I would just reformat the drive and load from scratch but it is a dual boot machine with Windows XP on the other partition. This is driving me nuts.

The bottom line is that I get the same error message as before indicating that the driver has not been loaded but when I go through the process of installing the driver everything loads with successful messages after each step including the final step.

That's just bizarre! I do not recall ever hearing a problem description like this one, honestly. I would suspect some hardware issue, but it all works perfectly under Win XP, right?

What type of mouse do you use? Is there any chance it needs a special "InputDevice" line in the xorg.conf file? In general, since X.org 1.6 came out, there's far less tweaking of the xorg.conf file to do, but with the proprietary driver it still is sometimes necessary to add a line. I'm confident that the "AddArgbGlxVisuals" option is irrelevant to the flaky mouse behavior, though. It may be there's something special about your mouse that needs to be defined -- I dunno ....

You did the driver installation with the X server completely shut down, right?

[rbrown3rd]

Re: Mouse trapped in taskbar

I am always happy to provide a bizarre problem. Just kidding. Everything works well in WinXP and it worked perfectly in Hardy Heron. I took the version upgrade Jaunty and this problem showed up. I booted into WinXP just to be sure all was well with the hardware and it is. I even took the graphics card out and blew the fan out with air and reseated it. Works fine in WinXP. The really weird thing is that on one of the boot ups the mouse was fine. Apparently the system was using a default driver without graphics acceleration. My card is a very old one. But, to further complicate things I tried the procedure in your post with an older version that worked with Hardy and it had the same mouse gravity problem. I guess I could reload from scratch and hope that the installer keeps my partition and Grub is not messed up but that makes me pretty nervous. Oh, and yes, I did shut down kdm prior to each install attempt.

Oh, forgot to answer the mouse question. It is a standard Microsoft wired mouse. Nothing fancy. Worked in Hardy. Works in WinXP. ....and it worked once or twice when the system booted with the 1024 x 768 non-accelerated driver.

[dibl]

Re: Mouse trapped in taskbar

I dunno.

Did you (in the tty console) go to "/" and

sudo rm -rf nvidia*

?

I'm thinking possibly there is some residual from an nvidia-glx package laying out, or something like that.

I remember having a spate of those "(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist 0)" errors for awhile, between Hardy and Intrepid if I recall correctly. At one point I got the driver to run by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and commenting out those two lines. You could try that -- make it look like this:

Section "Module"
# Load "freetype"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
# Load "type1"
Load "glx"
EndSection

[rbrown3rd]

Re: Mouse trapped in taskbar

Ok, here is what I did.

1. Went to / and ran

sudo rm -rf nvidia*

2. Stopped kdm
3. Ran the Nvidia installer
4. Restarted kdm

No Joy

Then I did the above plus I edited the xorg.conf file as suggested.

No joy on that either.

But, the mouse gravity problem has gone away for now.

Strange.....

Message on trying to start in low graphics mode is:

Edit /etc/default/jackd to start jackd
not starting K Display Manager (kdm-kde4); it is not the default display manager.

Then system hangs at that point and goes no further.

I rebooted and chose the generic recovery option and then selected to configure in the default graphics mode. I am now running with no mouse gravity problem but in low resolution (800 x 600) unaccellerated graphics mode. At least I can run the Kubuntu desktop now even though in crippled mode. At one point I had the X server running at 1024 x 768 so, although now running with no mouse gravity problem I have lost ground on the resolution front.

Hope this provides some clues to help track this strange problem down.

[dibl]

Re: Mouse trapped in taskbar

not starting K Display Manager (kdm-kde4); it is not the default display manager.

Hey -- I think that's a clue!

Did you say this is an upgraded Kubuntu system, from a prior version? If there's some problem with kdm-kde4 as the DM, that would explain problems running the nVidia driver. The business about jackd is not directly related, I don't think -- that may be a different and unrelated problem.

I dunno what to say except to reboot into Recovery Mode, and run the "Fix X" routine, and then reboot normally and see if you get a KDE 4 login GUI. If so, login and see what the heck is running.

[rbrown3rd]

Re: Mouse trapped in taskbar

Yes, it was an upgrade from Hardy Heron. I will try what you suggest. I am now able to login but I get a low 800 x 640 resolution. What should I look for after logging in? Sorry, I need a bit more hand holding on this thing.

[dibl]

Re: Mouse trapped in taskbar

Do Alt-F2 "kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf" and see what it says the driver is, in the "Device" stanza.

[rbrown3rd]

Re: Mouse trapped in taskbar

It says:

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#  sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

[dibl]

Re: Mouse trapped in taskbar

It must be running a VESA display then. Probably you can go into System Settings>Monitor & Display and adjust the resolution if you wish, up to a point.

They say doing the same thing over and over, while expecting a different result, is a sign of insanity, so I'm not going to say "install the nVidia driver" again.

But I honestly don't comprehend what is wrong, except that it probably relates to the prior kdm (KDE 3.5) and the upgrade to kdm-kde4. I would guess that a clean new installation of 9.04, followed by an installation of the nVidia driver, would work, but I don't blame you for avoiding that exercise.

[rbrown3rd]

Re: Mouse trapped in taskbar

I am laughing because you are right about your definition of insanity. I will try again but it is interesting to note that weak mouse gravity has returned. It slowly drifts to the left now.

If I were to load from scratch how would I handle my dual boot setup?

[rbrown3rd]

Re: Mouse trapped in taskbar

Nothing seems to work. I can only access KDM in low res mode and mouse gravity is pulling my cursor down to the lower left corner. How does one install from a CD on a dual boot system?