Mouse pointer freezes after opening up a new gdm login

[Johne]

When in Gnome, and I click Quit and chose to switch users, I then get put into a GDM session. GDM loads fine, my keyboard works, everything works, except my pointer. If I then hold down "Ctrl+Alt+F7/Any F* key", and switch my currently logged in session, and then back to gdm, my pointer begains to work. This really quite annoying. Sorry, I don't know what I should provide to help. Thanks. I'm using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, with intel gma965 graphics/1420n by dell.

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

i experience the same behaviour here on my laptop with gutsy and using ati open source graphic driver.
this only seems to affects the touchpad which is using xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, i also try using an external usb mouse, inserting it before and after switch user, everytime with the same results:
external mouse works ok, touchpad is frozen.

this is just for the second X server, in the first x session the touchpad keeps working ok.

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

actually i'm not certain that this is xserver-xorg-input-synaptics bug, but i prefer to asign to this one for now instead of leaving the bug without package, since it seems to be in direct relationship with this package.

related packages:
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xserver-xorg 1:7.2-5ubuntu7
xserver-xorg-core 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12ubuntu2
xserver-xorg-input-all 1:7.2-5ubuntu7
xserver-xorg-input-elographics 1:1.1.0-1
xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:1.1.5-3
xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.2.0-1+1.2.1ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1:1.2.1-1
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.14.6-0ubuntu7
xserver-xorg-input-wacom 1:0.7.7.7-0ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.6.193-1ubuntu1
gdm 2.19.6-0ubuntu3

[Johne (simsonloverforever)]

it seems to me to be an xsever-xorg-input-synaptics issue, but could 915resolution be the culprit.

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

i my case no, because i don't have an intel graphic card, do you have this problem in a laptop too?.

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

i my case no, because i don't have an intel graphic card, do you have this problem in a laptop too?, or at least are you using synaptic driver as well?.

[Carey Underwood (cwillu)]

I'm seeing the same thing with the touchpad on an acer aspire 3690.

Mouse is frozen on the switch user screen until I change vterms away and back again. When I switch back to the original session, the mouse is again frozen, and switching vterms doesn't fix it. If I don't switch vterms originally, then the mouse works fine on the original session.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #68370, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can add, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.