Missing mouse cursor in FC5-x86-64 installation.
Debbie Deutsch
fedoralist at ddeutsch.org
Sat Apr 15 15:37:46 UTC 2006
Gordon Gallup wrote:
> Greetings All,
> I executed an apparently successful installation of FC5 on an
> e-machine T6420 with an Athlon64 CPU. The only trouble is that at the
> XDM window and later the mouse cursor does not show on the screen.
> (It shows OK in a tty text window.) X-windows knows where it should
> be. I can search blindly for places that icons brighten and carefully
> get into menus, etc.
>
> This may, of course, be an X-windows issue, but any advice from
> this group would be appreciated.
>
> GAG
>
I had a similar problem on a system that uses an nVidia chipset. The
workaround is to disable the hardware cursor in your X configuration.
HTH
Debbie
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