On Saturday 05 of December 2015 11:46:38 Felix Miata wrote:
> Fresh Jessie installation about a week ago, Trinity added tonight. Using
> startx rather than any DM. Mouse can be used to select and click, but no
> way to tell where pointer is until it hovers something that changes on
> hover. Same problem in IceWM. Booting openSUSE Leap instead, pointer works
> normally in IceWM. Both evdev and mouse input drivers are installed. Google
> can't find anything helpful except WRT *buntu, rsyslog, arm or raspberry
> pi. Anyone here had this happen and/or know a fix?

This reminds me the behavior of Ubuntu 14.04.3 (Trusty with kernel and Xorg 
from Vily) in a virtual machine. You can try in Xorg settings give for your 
video card option: Option "HWCursor" "off"

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Slávek