After laptop lid is closed and told to 'blank screen', mouse disappears and needs reboot to be fixed

[Brett Alton]

Binary package hint: xorg

On an HP Pavillion 6042ca laptop, with the power cord plugged in, my mouse disappears after closing the laptop lid.

I checked the Power settings and it says that on AC power, the computer is supposed to blank the screen. If I wait about 10 seconds or so, the mouse is still there. However if I let the computer sit for more than a minute and open the laptop lid, the mouse pointer disappears. The pointer is still there and working, but the pointer graphic has disappeared and it makes it impossible to use the computer.

I hope most of the details were uploaded in '$ ubuntu-bug xorg' but I have nVidia graphics on my laptop, without the proprietary plugin enabled.

I installed 9.04 fresh and then upgrade to 9.10 around 2009-10-10

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 18 13:05:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv6000 (GL912UA#ABL)
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=8e848005-fa84-45f2-b0d8-ae000474323c ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.47-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1777): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1777): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1838): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1823): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:1822): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window
dmi.bios.date: 11/22/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.3D
dmi.board.name: 30B7
dmi.board.vendor: Quanta
dmi.board.version: 65.2B
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Quanta
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.3D:bd11/22/2007:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv6000(GL912UA#ABL):pvrRev1:rvnQuanta:rn30B7:rvr65.2B:cvnQuanta:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv6000 (GL912UA#ABL)
dmi.product.version: Rev 1
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-14-generic

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thank you for reporting this issue about xserver-xorg-video-nv. Starting
with Lucid, Ubuntu is transitioning to using the -nouveau video driver
by default instead of -nv. The reason for this change is because
upstream development for the -nv driver has been quite slow. We are
quite pleased with the upstream development speed for -nouveau, and hope
this will translate into swifter bug fixes as well.

Because of this, I'm closing this bug report at this time. I'm marking
it wontfix because what you describe is probably a valid issue, but we
do not have further plans to work on it in Ubuntu. If you would still like
to see this issue investigated, I would encourage you to file it
upstream at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.