Lost my mouse pointer !!

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Wed Aug 8 22:38:14 UTC 2007


William Case wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> Just installed a new ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard with an integrated NVIDA
> GeForce C51PV 6150 chipset.  Got everything working except my mouse.
> 
> Actually my mouse mainly works but I can't get the pointer to show up on
> my desktop even though icons and labels show focus when I happen to have
> my mouse focus over them.  Tried every possible variation of the mouse
> preferences setup.  Removed my wallpaper.  My xorg.conf file shows no
> mouse definition and I am certain mouses used to be defined there.  I am
> using an ordinary Microsoft three button mouse.
> 
> Any suggestions graciously received.  This is turning into one of the
> silliest, frustrating Fedora challenges I have faced so far.
> 
> 
It sounds like a hardware cursor problem. You may have to add:
Option "SWCursor" "on"
or
Option "HWCursor" "off"
to your xorg.conf file.

Mikkel
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